A Visit from Bill Gates
Bill Gates talks with studentsJonathan Shaw Bill-Gates-HarvardSeveral hundred Harvard students got a thrill on Thursday when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, came to campus. After...
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Ghost Story
A century apart, two Harvard alumni find each other in the American South.A century apart, two alumni find each other in the American South.Michael S. Knapp ghost story michael knappAPPROACHING HIS...
View ArticleHow to Pretend You Went to Harvard
How to Pretend You Went to HarvardAlexandra Petri How To Pretend You Went To HarvardAh, Harvard. That brick island awash in a sea of Starbucks, which seem to multiply every time you blink. Ah,...
View ArticleAlma Mater, Updated
Children's book writer and editor Janet Pascal ’84, on revising "Fair Harvard"Sophia Nguyen alma mater updatedWhen Harvard announced that the time had come to retire the final line of the alma...
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Harvard’s Governing Boards Refreshed
Harvard new Corporation members Overseer leaders Harvard new Corporation members Overseer leadersIt’s the changing of the University guard: as President Drew Faust conducts her last Commencement and...
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New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors AnnouncedNell Porter Brown commencement New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors AnnouncedThe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers...
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Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968Lydialyle Gibson underground 1968 film“I didn’t want to say no—I mean, who gets to have a movie made about their undergraduate senior thesis?”Ariel...
View ArticleMoorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACPBrief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929Geoffrey D. AustrianJuly-August 2018 moorfield-storeyOn june 15, 1898, when Moorfield Storey, A.B. 1866, stood...
View ArticlePipe Up
Methuen Memorial Music HallNell Porter BrownJuly-August 2018 methuen-memorial-music-hallThe Methuen Memorial Music Hall, with its lavish English baroque-inspired interior, was built to house the first...
View ArticleRage, Reborn
Rage, reborn: profile of guitarist Tom MorelloThe latest act of rock guitarist Tom Morello ’86Max SuechtingJuly-August 2018 tom-morello-prophets-of-rageGuitarist Tom Morello ’86 was watching CNN one...
View ArticleCentennial Medalists
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2018 Centennial MedalistsJuly-August 2018 centennial-medalists-2018The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the...
View ArticleCambridge Scholars
The 2018 Harvard Cambridge ScholarsJuly-August 2018 cambridge-scholarsFour seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2018-2019 academic year. Farris...
View ArticleThe Senior Alumni
Harvard’s 2018 senior alumniJuly-August 2018 senior-alumniEvelyn Richmond’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Theodore R. Barnett ’41, of Stowe, Vermont, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni...
View ArticleNew Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors 2018July-August 2018 overseers-HAA-election-resultsThe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni...
View ArticleThe 2018 Harvard Medalists
2018 Harvard MedalistsJuly-August 2018 harvard-medalists-2018Three alumni—and surprise honorand Drew Gilpin Faust—received the Harvard Medal for extraordinary service to the University during the...
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Next Steps
“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn HoA dancer’s dual lifeSamantha MaldonadoJuly-August 2018 madelyn-ho-dancerOn a Wednesday afternoon in April, members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company...
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A Family Farm
Blake Family Ranch and NurseryWorking a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky countryNell Porter BrownJuly-August 2018 a-family-farmThree weeks before calving season at Keewaydin Ranch, two ranch...
View ArticleReviving Neglected Space
Amelie Chai of SPiNE, an architect in MyanmarSanya SagarJuly-August 2018 reviving-neglected-spaceAmelie chai’93 has always been drawn to architecture “for its emotional as well as visual power.” As a...
View ArticleLadders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights
Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights Olivia Munk squirrel plays abortion debateThere are many things about the “real world” that no one tells you upon graduating college, such as: you can take a...
View ArticleSlightly Supernatural
Laura van den Berg and “The Third Hotel”In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.Lydialyle Gibson slightly-supernaturalIt wasn’t until after she moved into the haunted house that...
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