Courtesy of Olivia G. Oldham

Editors' Note

By Courtesy of Olivia G. Oldham and Matteo N. Wong December 09, 2021

For our final issue, we chose to write about 15 places, a break from this magazine’s history of publishing end-of-year issues about 15 people. As we understand it, a place constitutes any physical space in the vicinity of Harvard, from the Weeks Bridge, to Appleton Chapel, to the Yard itself. These are spaces we inhabit and traverse, in which we cry and laugh, create and demolish — alone but also, especially after the past year, together.

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An Auspicious Gingko Leaf

By Courtesy of Olivia G. Oldham December 11, 2020

"Over the coming days, as the tallies gingerly roll in, I check the leaf. It tears at the stem; Biden is down in Pennsylvania. Its green darkens; Biden is up in Nevada. "