Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Letters from Readers About Harvard’s Standoff with the Trump Administration
Harvard Magazine readers respond to Harvard’s standoff with the Trump administration.
Dwight Miller, longtime Harvard admissions officer, retires
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
A life lesson from Willie Banks
A life lesson from Willie Banks
Justice Holmes, presented by Stephen Budiansky and Lincoln Caplan
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
Participants recall the Harvard bust and strike, and its aftermath
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
A melting pot: Harvard’s 1968 football team
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Philip Johnson biography by Mark Lamster reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
Historic hod, Henry Kissinger, and more
Messenger from the past
by Primus VI
Richard T. Greener statue installed at University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
by Jean Martin
Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)
At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.
Alain Locke as activist aesthete
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch