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
“Beyond Lobsters and Lighthouses”
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
by Nell Porter-Brown
A Turning Point for WHRB
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
by David McClintick
Creative Gifts
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
by Nell Porter-Brown
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
The Players
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
by George Howe Colt
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
by Jennifer Gersten
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Please, Run!
Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess
by Nell Porter-Brown
Alaskan Educator
In rural Alaska, Jim Merriner runs a school district with a major educational footprint across the state.
by Shane Brodie