Magna Carta on display in Houghton Library

An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight

A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment. 

by Nina Pasquini

Share Your Take on Harvard’s Social Club Sanctions

We invite members of the Harvard community to share their thoughts about social club sanctions. 

The Four Chaplains Are Honored in Memorial Church

A Veterans Day commemoration recalls service and sacrifice.

by Jean Martin

The Fractured Faculty

The long final-clubs debate yields an uncertain path forward—and reveals fault lines in governance.

by John S. Rosenberg

Endowments: The Specter of Taxation

Harvard and other private universities are in Republicans’ sights.

by John S. Rosenberg

“Debate and Doubt”

The spirit of Harvard Law School, at 200, in a divisive era

by Lincoln Caplan

Father and Son, and E.E. Cummings

What one undergraduate learned

by James C. Beck

Yesterday’s News

“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Flaunting It

Boosting museums, and novel architecture

by Primus VI

Cambridge 02138

Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.

Measuring an Education

President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.

by Drew Gilpin Faust