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  • Nation & World

    Storied Irving Street paves way to history

    Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.

    11 minutes
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    ‘One for the ages’

    The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage nationally is “one for the ages,” a Harvard legal analyst said, a judgment echoed by others.

    7 minutes
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    Karplus on film

    More than 75 years after being expelled from his homeland by the Nazis, Austria-born Martin Karplus, a Harvard theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate, returned to Vienna in May in triumph — and as a film star. The mid-June American release of “Martin Karplus — The Invisible Made Visible” yet to be announced.

    8 minutes
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    Sea of Crimson, canopy of green

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

    21 minutes
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    Youthful wisdom, times 3

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

    7 minutes
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    Deep into the past

    Harvard’s traditional Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises showcased gifted graduates, gifted teachers, gifted members of the Class of 1965, and a poet and orator who both looked to the past to call up lessons for the future.

    3 minutes
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    Words as well as drawings

    The Graduate School of Design’s Héctor Tarrido-Picart, who earned two degrees, is drawn to bustling cities, and to the literature that defines them.

    3 minutes
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    100 years of Widener

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

    8 minutes
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    Seal of approval

    Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.

    6 minutes
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    Robert Darnton closes the book

    A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.

    10 minutes
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    Medal of Honor moment

    Three recipients of the nation’s highest military award ― all Vietnam veterans ― toured Harvard’s Memorial Church during a visit on May 8.

    5 minutes
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    Europe’s calmer side

    A Harvard Summer School course will take a novel approach to European history, examining centuries of violence through the lens of peace.

    6 minutes
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    Great adventures

    Students in “The Humanities Colloquium: Essential Works 2” received an education both in and out of the classroom.

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    ‘A completely new life was beckoning’

    Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.

    35 minutes
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    Walt Whitman’s war

    A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.

    6 minutes
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    Redesigning design contests

    A Harvard conference on design competitions — which can be creative, ubiquitous, and troubling — lays out the present controversies surrounding them, and some solutions.

    5 minutes
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    Unsettled by the bomb

    A historian’s new book outlines the little-known role of black Americans in international campaigns to ban nuclear weapons.

    5 minutes
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    Celebrating Widener

    Two lectures launched a yearlong celebration of Widener Library, which turns 100 this June.

    5 minutes
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    For those with a head for history

    A sample in images from the abundance of hats — Panama, pillbox, porkpie, and more — in Harvard’s holdings.

    4 minutes
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    Night of terror

    The Rev. Clark Olsen, S.T.B. ’59, who witnessed the 1965 Selma, Ala., murder that accelerated passage of the Voting Rights Act, launched a two-day Harvard look back at the Civil Rights era.

    5 minutes
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    Remembering Bill Crout

    At 10 a.m. on April 10, the Memorial Church will host a service in remembrance of William R. Crout, founder of the Paul Tillich Lectures.

    9 minutes
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    They build, but modestly

    Speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, two French architects advocate building and rebuilding based on modesty, generosity, and economy, with an eye to comfort and beauty.

    5 minutes
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    A close glimpse of James Baldwin

    Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.

    6 minutes
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    Seeing, feeling, being

    A symposium will investigate what makes us human, and go beyond philosophy to do it.

    6 minutes
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    Making print modern

    In an age of bits and bytes and pixels and text on screens, Harvard Design Magazine — relaunched in a new format last year ― fervently embraces the thingness of print, the quotidian actuality of paper and ink.

    5 minutes
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    A literary colossus

    The new Murty Classical Library of India from Harvard University Press, aiming for 500 volumes over the next century, will reveal to the world a “colossal Indian past” of multilanguage literary history from as far back as two millennia.

    12 minutes
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    Stages of design

    Three exhibits at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall represent different facets of how design learning gets done.

    5 minutes
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    Learning on the fly

    First-generation students bring lessons to Harvard ― of resilience, perseverance, and of talent’s universality.

    8 minutes
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    The rule-breaking Sisters Grimke

    “Exiled by the sound of the lash” from the slaveholding state of South Carolina, the Grimké sisters came North before the Civil War with rule-breaking ideas on slavery’s wrongs and women’s rights. They represented an antebellum moment in which “women became political.”

    8 minutes
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    Toward total war

    Experts on World War I gathered for a conference on the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century.

    9 minutes