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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 ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
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What one undergraduate learned
Davenport at home in 1975, with two of his own works behind him. An image of Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon partners Davenport’s portrait.
Photograph by Guy Mendes
Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
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.
Photograph by Larry Downing/Reuters
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
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.
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
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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.
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
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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 Crimson
A 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 Crimson
The Crimson gets back on track.
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What one undergraduate learned
“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
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.
Photograph by Larry Downing/Reuters
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
From the archives
This 1939 acetate disc of Ezra Pound’s full recording bears a handwritten annotation that reads “’Altaforte’ not to be played” and scratch marks to prevent the poem from being played accidentally.
Photograph by Christina Davis
A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
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A guide to the arts and culture, history, cuisine, and natural beauty of Cambridge, Boston, and beyond.
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Harvard’s Houghton Library explores “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence.”
Celebrating Thanksgiving at Old Sturbridge Village
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Cold-weather treats at Old Sturbridge Village
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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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
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