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A large surplus last year—but cautions about the future
Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
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The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
Nadya Okamoto
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
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Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
Pakistanis eating rice, a staple crop and major source of protein in South Asia.
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How global warming can change crop nutrition
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Nadya Okamoto
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
The Winthrop House library
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Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
Rachel L. Gable
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCHow some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
Among the nineteenth-century frauds Kevin Young explores are the pseudo-scientific Great Moon Hoax.
Photograph from Chronicle/AlamyFrom the Missouri Compromise to the 2016 election, Kevin Young's Bunk takes stock of American hoaxes, con men, and race fantasies.
Hedden in the northern section of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument. Behind him are the Six Shooter Peaks, where, he says, “the U.S. Department of Energy wanted to build a nuclear waste plant.”
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A Utah activist reflects on 40 years of land conservation—and what’s coming next.
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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Cooking lessons at the French Cultural Center
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Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
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Harvard’s Houghton Library explores “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence.”
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Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.
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President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Cooking lessons at the French Cultural Center
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Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
Bob Dylan in 1965. Already, the classical world was starting to influence his writing.
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In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
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Freshman Harvard quarterback Jake Smith showed some moves as he slalomed through Princeton defenders on a 26-yard run.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA shellacking in the Stadium
Harvard's Charlie Booker deployed a mighty stiff arm to fend off Lafayette's Philip Parham. The Crimson junior rampaged his way to a career-high 159 yards on the ground.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonThe Crimson gets back on track.
On one of his 11 tackles, Harvard senior defensive back Tim Haehl wrapped up Cornell's James Hubbard after a seven-yard gain.
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Cornell inexorably outmuscles Harvard.
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
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“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
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Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater.
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March-April 2017
A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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November-December 2001
Letters
9-11-2001 The staff of Harvard Magazine shares the horror and grief caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11 against New York City and...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we...
Treasure
For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred...
In this Issue
Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost decade"--dating from the early 1990s, when the country's seemingly...
In this spot stood Gore Hall...Built in the year 1838...Named in honor of Christopher Gore...Fellow of the...
Andew Spielman studies diseases carried by blood-sucking insects, and their adaptations to life with their human hosts.
Although we are all assembled at this gathering because we have been 25 years at Harvard, today I am privately celebrating 53 years of...
"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...
Letters
9-11-2001 The staff of Harvard Magazine shares the horror and grief caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11 against New York City and...
Right Now
Urban archaeologists peel back the concrete skins of modern cities in search of the material remains of the past. The task challenges...
The madding crowds of eighteenth-century England demanded fine china as fiercely as today's jittery crowds crave caffe lattes. For more than 200...
In the wild, animals instinctively find and consume the foods best adapted to their bodies. Not so for humans. Agribusinesses, fast-food chains...
Imagine a computer, suspended in a flask of liquid, which assembles itself when the liquid is poured onto a desktop. Sound like science fiction?...
New England Regional
Karen Dewolski wants to go to Harvard. She knows she needs top grades, plenty of extracurricular activities, and, of course, the test scores...
There are those who have eaten at Icarus more than a hundred times during the last 20 years and say they have never had a reason not to go back...
John Harvard's Journal
Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D. '82, matriculated formally as Harvard's twenty-seventh president on October 12. The occasion had many of the...
Members of the University community, friends of Harvard from far and wide: we celebrate today a ritual generations old-er than our nation--a...
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, Harvard took the steps one would...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) radio dispatchers refer to officers by their badge numbers. Patrolman James P. Sullivan's badge is...
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the...
What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, Harvard...
A pair of senior faculty appointments unveiled shortly before the beginning of the academic year underscores the intellectual ambitions and new...
In the annals of undergraduate housing, the graduation of the class of 2001 marked the end of an era. My freshman year, the seniors weren't...
Father J. Bryan Hehir from the start was on loan to Harvard. When he came to teach at the Divinity School and be part of the Weatherhead Center...
Last year, Harvard's senior admissions officers urged applicants to the College-- and their parents--to relax a little, lest the rising...
For almost three centuries, Massachusetts Hall has stood quietly at the entrance of Harvard Yard. It is perhaps more quintessentially Harvard...
CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during...
Early freshman year, in order to experience all that college had to offer, I decided to cut sleep out of my life entirely. Having over-committed...
Reacting swiftly to the alcohol-related problems at last November's edition of The Game (see "Unsavory Record," January-February, page...
Whether or not her kick in the womb was especially strong, forward Joey Yenne '03 of the women's soccer team showed competitive fire very early...
An impressive win at the outset of what will be a slightly truncated season gave grounds for optimism about the football team's Ivy League...
Harvard Sports on the Web Visit the Crimson's official website, www.athletics.harvard.edu, for Harvard teams' schedules and results, stories...
Alumni
For 17 years Paul Dry '66 commuted to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where he was a successful, if not terribly high-rolling, stock-options trader.
The National Football League (NFL) has had only one head coach with a Harvard degree, but he was an awfully good one. This year, Marv Levy, A.M...
Lana Wong '91, who arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with her British husband in 1996, cannot forget the smell of her first walk through Mathare...
Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and...
The University's on-line educational venture, Harvard at Home, now offers a dozen capsule versions of seminars, talks, and courses. Designed to...
1926 After closing the Memorial Hall commons because of students' "unsociable fashion of 'eating round' at cafeterias and lunch...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we...
Treasure
For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred...