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Statue of John Harvard
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More women in science, and a steady increase in Asian-American admits
Massachusetts Hall
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The University reports on a continuing trend—and commits to improving the community’s culture.
Angela Merkel
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The German chancellor will deliver the Commencement address on May 30, 2019.
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Illustration by Pete Ryan
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
Photograph by Amélie Benoist/Science Source
Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care
A formal wartime portrait
Photograph from the Mathew Brady Collection/Library of Congres
Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885
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The Undergraduate considers the composition of Harvard College.
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“None of my friends are going to The Game, which is evidenced by the fact that we’re at IHOP deliberating whether our crêpes should come with lingonberry, and not on a shuttle into Boston.”
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After the harvest, Kelby Russell, who makes cold-climate white wines, stands in a vineyard overlooking New York’s Seneca Lake.
Photograph by Robyn Wishna
Why the vineyards of New York called Kelby Russell home
Liz Glynn
Photograph by Evelena Ruether/Liz Glynn Studio
In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value
Bess Wohl
Photograph by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.
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An example of a quipu from Peru's Nazca Province
Gift of Robert Woods Bliss, 1942 © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM# 42-28-30/4532
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
A miniature version of a New England high-post bed (ca. 1750-1765), with historically accurate bed furnishings by Natalie Larson
Object on loan courtesy of Natalie and Bruce Larson
Photograph courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
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A formal wartime portrait
Photograph from the Mathew Brady Collection/Library of Congres
Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885
Affirmative action, donor and staff preferences, and other Harvard College admissions challenges
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Photograph from the OxBlue Construction Cameras
Alongside a huge applied-sciences center, a toehold for art-making
Philip J. Deloria
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
A boat cast adrift: visualizing the text, “Though the orange tree isle / Remain fast in its color, / ’Tis not such change, / But this drifting boat’s whither / That is beyond all knowing.”
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums Imaging Department ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
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Tubing at Nashoba Valley Ski Area
Photograph courtesy of Nashoba Valley Ski Area
Best snow-tubing spots around Greater Boston
Cook’s tour: Harvard wideout Jack Cook leaves Yale’s Deonte Henson in the dust on a third-quarter, 15-yard touchdown. The score gave the Crimson a 28-24 lead, which it would not surrender.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A resilient, crowd-pleasing football season, with talented sophomores surfacing
Cook’s tour: Harvard wideout Jack Cook leaves Yale’s Deonte Henson in the dust on a third-quarter, 15-yard touchdown. The score gave the Crimson a 28-24 lead, which it would not surrender.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonOn the fiftieth anniversary of That Game, Harvard really does beat Yale.
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Illustration by Mark Steele
When the Law School made thin ice…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
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Re-landscaping Massachusetts Hall, making the entrance to Harvard Yard more welcoming
Quarterback Frank Champi ’70 is carried off the field as the Yale game ends.
Photograph by Gary Mottola
The immediate post-Game coverage, and an update on that famous headline
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A formal wartime portrait
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Brief history of the image of a hero: 1822-1885
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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