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Nation & World
Visions of doom
A pair of Harvard events looked at the artistic legacy of Pompeii — a kind of “Apocalypse Then.”
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The tale of Benny and Jenny
In the first lecture of the season’s American Literature and Culture Series, Harvard history Professor Jill Lepore previews her book on Jane Franklin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s little-known yet favored sister.
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Death and the Civil War
Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”
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Alan Turing at 100
Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments celebrates the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, whose ideas theorized the first computers, spurred the science of artificial intelligence, and — oh yes — helped save the Allies during World War II.
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So close and yet so far
The latest freshman class, sweepingly broad geographically, includes students from 10,000 miles away and some from Harvard’s own ZIP code.
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Back to basics
Military training returns to Harvard, as ROTC cadets participate in their first on-campus workouts in 41 years.
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New beginnings
In her traditional annual remarks at the first fall Morning Prayers, Harvard President Drew Faust found common ground between the secular and the religious, “the ineffable and the immediate,’’ and reminded listeners of “the need to serve both.”
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At 50, a building still dares
A new art exhibit opens a yearlong celebration of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which turns 50 in May.
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Wedding digital with traditional
Event showcases metaLAB summer projects displaying ways to access, annotate, and remix knowledge in the digital age.
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Daniel Aaron’s century
A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.
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The long journey to asylum
Behind the legal technicalities practiced at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, there are asylum clients with pain and persecution behind them, and hope ahead.
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Harvard’s best listeners
Harvard’s Audio Preservation Studio, tucked away in a few rooms on Story Street, does the heavy lifting (and listening) required to make “loss-less” digital copies of archived sound artifacts in collections University-wide.
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A new avenue for expression
A new master’s concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Design invites artists and others out of the studio and into the world.
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Harvard in the War of 1812
The War of 1812 touched Harvard only lightly, a new exhibit shows, but the end of the conflict was much welcomed in Anglophile New England.
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Edward Lear’s natural history
Edward Lear, a master of nonsense verse and travel writing, was at a young age one of the most accomplished natural history painters of his time.
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Death penalty in decline
A Harvard Law School panel looks at the future of the death penalty worldwide and sees a decline in this “organized violence” by nation-states — but a few “dark spots” too.
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Royal views
Crown Prince Felipe of Spain covered a range of topics — working his way from the 15th century to the euro crisis — in a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.
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The rigor of reargument
Over many months, a Harvard Law School team put in long hours to craft a legal brief, hoping to sway a Supreme Court decision that will affect the fate of lawsuits regarding international human rights.
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World literature, sized right
A Harvard professor leads a team of editors to create a third edition of an erudite, Earth-circling “Norton Anthology of World Literature.”
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Updike’s roots and evolution
Harvard’s Houghton Library offers a glimpse of a coming treasure trove for scholars, the John Updike Archive.
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Disorder in the American courts
In a luncheon address, retired jurist Margaret Marshall, the 2012 Radcliffe Medalist, cautioned that money-mad judicial races may be tipping the scales of justice.
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Daring to be a doer
Clara Long, who has worked many jobs in many lands, plans to use her new Harvard Law Degree to help ensure the rights of others.
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A poem for Harvard
Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to Harvard to read a poem at Morning Exercises. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, he will reprise his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” composed for the University’s 350th.
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Sharp messages
Poet Kay Ryan and former Harvard President Derek Bok blended wit and wisdom in addressing top-ranked seniors at the 222nd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on May 22.
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Commencements, from 1642 onward
In its earliest years, the struggling College was chronically short of money and sometimes even graduates.
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Paul Tillich at Harvard
Four speakers recalled the spiritual and intellectual ambition of theologian Paul Tillich in an event marking the 50th anniversary of his retirement from Harvard.
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Crime probe
A Harvard engineering class helps find a metric for a computer scheme that tracks gang violence.
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Seamus Heaney, set to music
Nobel Laureate and onetime Harvard professor Seamus Heaney will reprise a 1986 poem at Commencement this year, celebrating Harvard in its 375th year – and inspiring a new a cappela work by Richard Beaudoin.
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Harvard’s long-ago student risings
A century of occasional unrest at American colleges reflected a time of unbridled liberty and questionable self-discipline.
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Echoes of the Titanic
On the centennial of the ship’s sinking, Harvard historian Steven Biel has a new edition of his book, which traces the cultural arc of that myth-making disaster.
