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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Thomas W. Lentz
In the early 1980s, when Thomas W. Lentz was earning a Ph.D. at Harvard by becoming an expert on Islamic art—Persian painting in...
An American in Paris
More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two...
Debating Gender
Following President Lawrence H. Summers’s comments last January on women’s interests and aptitudes as they might affect careers in...
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finallyfinallyI am hitting my stride. “In...
Yesterday's News
1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given...
Auto PILOT
Harvard’s payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) to the City of Cambridge have been renegotiated to include an escalator that will increase the...
Building Boom
The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus was transformed in the post-World War II era, extending itself outward and upward in...
A Planner for GSD
Had life gone according to his plan, Alan A. Altshuler would have spent one of the snowiest Cambridge winters on record in Singapore. Instead...
Humanist at Harvard
Finding Humanism listed among the 26 religions represented on the Board of Ministry at Harvard may seem curious, but Humanist chaplain Thomas...
University People
Garrett M. Graff Courtesy of Garrett M. Graff Susan Dackerman Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Crimson blogsphere. Two Harvard...