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Harold H. Koh started at Harvard as a Physics concentrator — before he went on to become dean of Yale Law School and an ...
A federal judge granted Harvard’s request for a temporary restraining order hours after the University asked her to block the ...
Harvard football season ended in disappointment. But the strong offense that season still made it memorable and set up the ...
In 1975, the Harvard men’s swim team dominated its dual meet season with a 9-0 overall record. The team glided through the ...
In 1963, one month before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy ’40 visited Harvard to choose a site for his presidential library and archives. But after years of local controversy, the JFK ...
In 1995, a faculty committee called for every staff and faculty member to have access to a computer and the internet, just in time for the arrival of the Class of 2000 on campus.
Before Chetty was an economics wunderkind whose work on social mobility shot him to stardom, he was a talented undergraduate, laser-focused on his economics work — and his beloved Chicago Bulls.
The Class of 1975 invited Ali to speak at the annual Class Day celebration after Mel Brooks and Bill Cosby declined invitations. Ali was able to work Harvard into his calendar — and delivered a speech ...
The Du Bois Institute, Harvard’s premier research center for African American studies, was born amid a protracted struggle over the structure of the Afro-American studies department.
The Strauch Committee — tasked with determining whether to combine the Harvard-Radcliffe admissions offices and deciding whether to continue to enforce gender ratios in admissions — released its final ...
Pranks, public shaming, football, drag, and a high-stakes tug-of-war game: A clash over lunch access sparked a memorable House rivalry for the Class of 2000.
For nearly three decades, the Harvard Institute for International Development advised foreign governments on some of their most pressing economic and political issues. Then, in 2000, it was shuttered ...