Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
The Art of Home Restoration
Charlie Allen makes period homes work for their owners. View images of his work.
by Jonathan Shaw
Fifteen Percent of Immortality
Andrew Wylie '70 runs a powerful literary agency that mixes hardball business and highbrow tastes. With audio from an interview with Wylie.
by Craig Lambert
Updike's Literary Archive: Sneak Preview
Taking a look at the Houghton Library holdings
Dropping Out: In Their Own Words
Hear three Sixties types explain why they dropped out of Harvard.
Harvard Headlines: Childhood, Unorthodox History of Science, and Lordship in the Twelfth Century
Three recent reviews of books by Harvard-affiliated scholars (two faculty members and one alumnus).
Keeping "promises the Nation has made"
The Honorable David H. Souter, retired from the U.S. Supreme Court, began a conversation about constitutional interpretation.
"Tend to public good"
In her speech to the alumni on Commencement afternoon, President Faust put the University’s interest in public service in context.
John McPhee's Listener
A Paris Review article describes how renowned author John McPhee reads his drafts to his friend Gordon Gund ’61.
The GSAS Centennial Medalists
Scholars whose contributions to society emerged from their graduate study at Harvard
The Senior Members
Rose Downes Arnold ’36 and George Barner ’29 led the alumni procession.