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The Green Line

21+ hour, 34+ min ago  (252+ words) 03.12.26: St. Patty's, Forum Despite the annual spectacle of St. Patrick's Day, the origins of the holiday are far less pronounced. The holiday began as a religious feast in Ireland, a day for Catholic Mass and modest family gatherings. For centuries,…...

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Luck is in the Yard

8+ hour, 30+ min ago  (370+ words) 03.12.26: St. Patty's, Forum As Saint Patrick's Day draws near, luck is in the air, but there are certain places around campus where attempts to secure good fortune always lie. Most Harvard students have already overcome incredible odds just to get…...

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Harvard: Not Your Mother’s School

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (280+ words) Under a 1977 "non-merger merger" agreement, Radcliffe students were admitted as official Harvard College students, and their degrees began to reflect that shared identity. On paper, the divide appeared to narrow significantly. However, in practice, Radcliffe still operated as a separate…...

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Point/Counterpoint: Should Eileen Gu Have Represented China?

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (275+ words) Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu are two of the most prominent young athletes in international winter sports, whose lives seem to run in parallel. Both were born in the United States to Chinese single parents who had their children by…...

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Exploring American Hometowns: Brentwood, California

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (510+ words) When I introduce myself, I say I'm from "the Bay" to be strategically vague. If I'm lucky, someone mentions a cousin in San Jose or an internship in San Francisco, and we nod at each other in mutual recognition of…...

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Celebrating Your Roots

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (384+ words) Every September, a new class of Harvard students arrives on campus with a beaming smile and an ambitious look in their eyes. Yet between academic pressures and unfamiliar environments, one challenge many students do not realize awaits them: staying connected…...

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Restrained But Not Restricted: International Students’ Free Speech On Campus

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (760+ words) A Harvard College international student'who chose to remain anonymous due to security concerns'was playing frisbee in the Harvard Yard when a man approached her, introducing himself as a reporter for CNN. He asked if she felt scared or threatened. "I…...

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New World, Same Indy

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (353+ words) What's the use of a college newspaper if it doesn't actually represent the student body? Discourse in a democratic society can rarely survive with only one source of news, and the microcosm of the world that is Harvard's campus is…...

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Exploring American Hometowns: Las Cruces, New Mexico

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (363+ words) 02.05.26: Snowed In, Arts I called my grandparents this morning, as I have done every Sunday since I moved away from Las Cruces, New Mexico." Though the topic of conversation is never identical, there is one thing I can always count…...

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Political Bias In and Out of Harvard Classrooms: A “Systematic” Problem

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (371+ words) 01.29.26: Turning the Page, News BY CLAIRE CHUNG "29 AND JULIA BOUCHUT "29 The January Fox News piece emphasizes how Harvard"s left-leaning political biases have negatively affected students, particularly in the context of the Israel-Hamas war, which has been the source of…...