Editors' Choice
Behind the Scenes at Lowell Tea
It’s a Thursday afternoon in the Lowell House Faculty Deans’ kitchen, and bakers are whisking, sifting, and pre-heating in anticipation of a beloved house tradition: Lowell Tea.
‘More Tools, Less Books’: How 12 Students Built a Boat In Near Silence
Over this year's wintersession, 12 students undertook a two-week-long project to build a honryōsen, a type of Japanese flat-bottomed river skiff, in the basement of CGIS South.
'Hey U.S. News and World Report, It’s Me, Harvard Medical School'
As Valentine’s Day approaches, couples come together joyously, but for one unfortunate pair of lovers, the season marks an untimely demise to their passionate romance.
A(verse) to Legacy Admissions
So yeah, I hope by now I’ve been real clear ‘bout my position. Harvard, it’s high time we ditched the legacy admission.
Cancer, or the Day God Was Sick
There’s no way to talk or write about illness; none that is good enough, anyway.
Dying Without Identification in Harvard Square
What exactly happens to an unhoused person if they die, unidentified, in the state of Massachusetts?
In Character
I wondered, aside from the fever, what had caused me to empathize so fully, to transplant my selfhood into Anna? And even more troubling — why had I enjoyed it, the metallic shuddering, the billowing steam, the overwhelming sense that everything was about to end?
Harvard and Me
I was the only person I knew of coming to Harvard from South Africa, and, in turn, I was to everyone in South Africa the only person they knew going to Harvard — which is to say, I became Harvard.
Sick, in a Grieving Way
That was when I turned to Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery Report. Reading it made me feel like I was having a spiritual heart attack.
Bunny Battles: The Crimson’s Decades-Long Feud with Playboy Magazine
Before Playboy's ad was printed, however, a group of Crimson editors voted to reverse that decision — but not unanimously. At first, then-Crimson President Francis J. Connolly ’79 called David Chan on the phone and told him that the ad “was simply too offensive to appear in the pages of The Crimson,” according to the Boston Globe.
Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own
Concern over administrative bloat has become more salient in recent years as universities, especially elite institutions such as those in the Ivy League, have come under political scrutiny. As I walked through the offices of the Smith Campus Center, I had to ask myself: Where did all these people come from? And do we really need them here?
‘A Very Fraught Moment’: How Elizabeth Holmes Joined the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows
In the aftermath of the exposé and months of investigations that followed, the Board grappled with an internal debate about whether to keep Holmes “on the board for a while out of fairness and due process” or request her resignation in order to “limit potential institutional reputational damage."
Up Close With Remy the Cat
“He’s our cat, but he’s every bit a cat that belongs to the Harvard community as well."
The Road to Reclamation, Reconciliation, and Reparations: A Conversation With Public Historian Hannah Scruggs
Public historian Hannah Scruggs sat with Fifteen Minutes to discuss historical sites, descendants of slavery, and Harvard's road to remedying its difficult past. “Public history can be a powerful space for connection and healing,” she says.
‘1-2-3, A.D. Tree, That’s How Easy Love Can Be’
You blushed — your leaves were turning red as the weather got colder. You dropped a leaf down to me and I held it like a hand. We agreed that what we had was real — no situationship, no post-party hookup. We agreed not to see other people.
