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View of the sign that marks storied Irving Street in Cambridge. William James, e.e. cummings, Julia Child, Marion and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Martin Karplus, and Gerald Holton are among the many notable residents that have called Irving Street home. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Storied Irving Street paves way to history

The Victorian lane has been an inspirational home to a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist

Campus|

DateMay 19, 2016November 14, 2018

Capping a generation of swift social and legal change on gay rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is legal across the nation. Harvard analysts called the result a landmark shift that will take its place alongside major civil rights decisions.

‘One for the ages’

Harvard analysts see fundamental shift in ruling legalizing gay marriage nationally

World|

DateJune 26, 2015June 9, 2020

“Martin Karplus — The Invisible Made Visible,” a documentary film of his life, is the third in a series called “The Eviction of Intellect.” Karplus ’50 (photo 1) is Harvard’s Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus. Photos from his childhood mark the making of the 2013 Nobel laureate in chemistry.

Karplus on film

Nobel laureate featured in ‘Eviction of Intellect’

Arts|

DateJune 3, 2015June 5, 2019

Tradition will always make a Harvard Commencement special. Top hats mark the 364th Commencement. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Sea of Crimson, canopy of green

The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard

Campus|

DateMay 28, 2015March 14, 2019

“Knowing this language has improved the quality of my writing,” said Latin orator James P. McGlone '15 of his English composition, and he foresees the rigor and order of Latin helping him in law school some day.

Youthful wisdom, times 3

Student orators plan messages of hope, kindness, commitment — and perspective

Campus|

DateMay 27, 2015

President Drew Faust congratulated graduates before the 225th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises ceremony at Sanders Theatre, which featured talks by poet Laura Kasischke (photo 2) and Harvard's S. Allen Counter (photo 3).

Deep into the past

Memory gathers force at Phi Beta Kappa ceremony

Campus|

DateMay 26, 2015April 3, 2019

Words as well as drawings

Graduate School of Design’s Héctor Tarrido-Picart is drawn to bustling, sensual cities, and to the literature that defines them

Campus|

DateMay 22, 2015

100 years of Widener

The massive library rose after the Titanic sank and remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard

Campus|

DateMay 22, 2015October 21, 2019

Seal of approval

Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long, swirling history — including two centuries of invisibility

Campus|

DateMay 14, 2015September 7, 2016

“If I could characterize what I’ve done since 2007 in one word, it would be ‘openness’ ― to open up Harvard to the world. Knowledge should be seen as a natural resource,” said outgoing Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian Robert Darnton.

Robert Darnton closes the book

Departing University Librarian embraced and defended the digital, while still savoring the printed

Arts|

DateMay 11, 2015

A Friday tour of Harvard’s Memorial Church prefigured a September event honoring America’s highest heroes (photo 1). The visiting trio included Harold A. Fritz (from left, photo 2), Bruce P. Crandall, and Thomas G. Kelley. Crandall spoke with ROTC representative Charlotte “Charley” Falletta ’16 (photo 3).

Medal of Honor moment

Recipients to gather at Memorial Church in September

World|

DateMay 11, 2015March 8, 2019

Students in visiting scholar Stella Ghervas' Extension School course will get a novel view of Europe: that its history is more about making peace than it is about making war.

Europe’s calmer side

Summer course to examine touchstones in peacemaking

World|

DateMay 11, 2015

Harvard University PhD Candidate in Philosophy and Head teaching fellow for Humanities 10A and 10B, Lauren Kopajtic, leads a 10b group to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

Great adventures

'Essential Works 2' provided an intimate education in literary classics

Campus|

DateMay 7, 2015September 7, 2016

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus Gerald Holton is pictured in his Cambridge home. He first arrived at Harvard in 1943. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

‘A completely new life was beckoning’

Beyond the reach of monsters, Gerald Holton found infinite possibilities

Campus|

DateMay 6, 2015

Harvard’s Lawrence Buell (center) called “Drum-Taps” Whitman’s “first attempt to cut lose from ‘Leaves of Grass’ and do something else.” The Humanities Center panel also featured Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Elisa New (left) and Fordham University English Professor Lawrence Kramer (right).

Walt Whitman’s war

‘Drum-Taps,’ the weighty core of his classic ‘Leaves of Grass,’ turns 150

Arts|

DateMay 6, 2015June 19, 2019

A recent Graduate School of Design conference was a bit unusual — it was also a competition. In his talk during the conference symposium, Scott Davis (pictured), a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, discussed one of four recent design competitions that have tested the boundaries of what competitions can be and what it means for design, planning, and the public interest.

Redesigning design contests

Conference examines pluses, minuses of having firms bid for interesting work, but with no guarantee of results

Science|

DateApril 29, 2015May 31, 2019

Since visiting Hiroshima a decade ago, historian Vincent J. Intondi has been exploring a corollary American question: What had blacks thought of using the bomb in 1945? His findings are in his dramatic and readable new book “African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement.”

Unsettled by the bomb

African-Americans, no strangers to heavy-handed authority, were far less supportive of nuclear weapons, author says

Arts|

DateApril 22, 2015

There will be a yearlong celebration of Widener Library, which turns 100 this June. This painting of Harry Elkins Widener hangs over the fireplace in the Widener Memorial Room. Launching the celebration were two lectures. John Stauffer (photo 2), a professor of English and African and African-American Studies, talked about the value of Harvard’s collections. Leslie Morris (right, photo 3), curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, shared the stage with Stauffer. In her talk, Morris offered a glimpse of book collector Harry Elkins Widener, outlining his acquisitions. Among his books were first editions of Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Celebrating Widener

Lectures look ahead to library’s centennial

Arts|

DateApril 17, 2015March 8, 2019

A straw Panama hat bought at the Harvard Coop by T.S. Eliot. The $5 price tag is still affixed. (Houghton Library)

For those with a head for history

Stylish feature of University’s holdings: Hats galore

Campus|

DateApril 16, 2015September 7, 2016

“I was there, at a tipping point in history,” recounted the Rev. Clark Olsen, S.T.B. ’59. Olsen’s visit was part of a two-day commemoration of Selma, and the Civil Rights era, centered on the 2015 William Belden Noble Lecture by documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr.

Night of terror

Selma violence remembered in sermon at Memorial Church

World|

DateApril 13, 2015March 8, 2019

Suzanne Hamner and Bill Crout during a Wednesday coffee-hour gathering outside the Memorial Church (date unknown). A service of remembrance will be held for Crout at the Memorial Church on Friday at 10 a.m.

Remembering Bill Crout

Memorial service April 10 for founder of Tillich Lectures

News|

DateApril 9, 2015March 8, 2019

Architects Anne Lacaton (right) and Jean-Philippe Vassal were at the Harvard Graduate School of Design recently to discuss social architecture based on economy, modesty, and the found beauty of environments.

They build, but modestly

Architects specialize in simplicity, scale, context, beauty

Arts|

DateApril 2, 2015

A page from Houghton Library's James Baldwin typescript of "The Welcome Table" (photo 1). Leslie Morris, curator of modern books and manuscripts (image 2), with the 3,000th item in Houghton's American collection. Handwritten notes that came with the typescript (photo 3), which was paid for in equal shares by Houghton Library and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

A close glimpse of James Baldwin

Gates has leading role in history of play acquired by Houghton

Arts|

DateMarch 30, 2015March 8, 2019

Philosopher and Volkswagen Foundation Fellow Thiemo Breyer, who is just finishing a year at Harvard, has organized a Mahindra Humanities Center interdisciplinary symposium called "Visibility, Embodiment, and Empathy: Explorations of Human Intersubjectivity." “It’s a first,” he said of the eclectic gathering.

Seeing, feeling, being

Conference probes fundamental aspects of our humanity

Arts|

DateMarch 26, 2015March 8, 2019

The revamped Harvard Design Magazine made a splash at a recent launch event, which gathered Guest Editor Pierre Bélanger (from left), Editor in Chief Jennifer Sigler, and Associate Editor Leah Whitman-Salkin. The current issue, "Wet Matter," offers a view from the oceans.

Making print modern

New look for Harvard Design Magazine deepens focus on ‘Wet Matter’

Arts|

DateMarch 11, 2015May 21, 2019

The first five volumes of the new Murty Classical Library of India (photo 1) were released in January from Harvard University Press. The hope is to publish 500 volumes over the next century, which will reveal to the world a “colossal Indian past” of multilanguage literary history from as far back as two millennia. A detail from Volume 4, "The Story of Manu" by Allasani Peddana (photo 2). This is the first time it has appeared in English.

A literary colossus

Scholars celebrate publishing first five volumes keyed to India’s cultural past, the first of 500 in the next century

Arts|

DateMarch 4, 2015June 6, 2018

An architectural photo from “Dualisms: Abalos + Sentkiewicz” in the main exhibition space at Gund Hall.

Stages of design

Movements in research and learning captured in trio of exhibits

Science|

DateMarch 2, 2015May 30, 2019

Part of imagining the future Harvard is admitting students from economically diverse backgrounds, noted panelist William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, during the “First in the Family” event at the Harvard Club of Boston. Moderator Kevin Jennings ’85 (from left) shared his experiences with fellow panelists Jasmine Fernandez ’16, president of the Harvard First Generation Student Union, Anya Bernstein Bassett, Ph.D. ’97, and Fitzsimmons '67. Jennings, who had closely studied how students at Harvard dressed, said he arrived from his home in a trailer park looking preppier than anyone else.

Learning on the fly

Campus life comes with particular challenges when college is a family first

Campus|

DateFebruary 27, 2015July 26, 2019

Before her lecture on the Grimké sisters, historian Louise W. Knight (left) talks about the new petitions database with Daniel Carpenter, Harvard’s Allie S. Freed Professor of Government.

The rule-breaking Sisters Grimke

How 19th-century women got political

Arts|

DateFebruary 26, 2015March 8, 2019

“The Great War,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in greeting conference-goers Friday, “introduced a level of brutality and revealed a capacity for human cruelty that has shaped our lives ever since.”

Toward total war

Conference explores the forces behind WWI

Arts|

DateFebruary 13, 2015March 8, 2019

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The Victorian lane has been an inspirational home to a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist

Harvard analysts see fundamental shift in ruling legalizing gay marriage nationally

Nobel laureate featured in ‘Eviction of Intellect’

The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard

Student orators plan messages of hope, kindness, commitment — and perspective

Memory gathers force at Phi Beta Kappa ceremony

Graduate School of Design’s Héctor Tarrido-Picart is drawn to bustling, sensual cities, and to the literature that defines them

The massive library rose after the Titanic sank and remains a linchpin of learning and conservation at Harvard

Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long, swirling history — including two centuries of invisibility

Departing University Librarian embraced and defended the digital, while still savoring the printed

Recipients to gather at Memorial Church in September

Summer course to examine touchstones in peacemaking

'Essential Works 2' provided an intimate education in literary classics

Beyond the reach of monsters, Gerald Holton found infinite possibilities

‘Drum-Taps,’ the weighty core of his classic ‘Leaves of Grass,’ turns 150

Conference examines pluses, minuses of having firms bid for interesting work, but with no guarantee of results

African-Americans, no strangers to heavy-handed authority, were far less supportive of nuclear weapons, author says

Lectures look ahead to library’s centennial

Stylish feature of University’s holdings: Hats galore

Selma violence remembered in sermon at Memorial Church

Memorial service April 10 for founder of Tillich Lectures

Architects specialize in simplicity, scale, context, beauty

Gates has leading role in history of play acquired by Houghton

Conference probes fundamental aspects of our humanity

New look for Harvard Design Magazine deepens focus on ‘Wet Matter’

Scholars celebrate publishing first five volumes keyed to India’s cultural past, the first of 500 in the next century

Movements in research and learning captured in trio of exhibits

Campus life comes with particular challenges when college is a family first

How 19th-century women got political

Conference explores the forces behind WWI

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