Losing the Plot

The pandemic taught us how to sit still. Let’s not forget that as we return to socializing this fall.

At the end of World War I and the pandemic of 1918, Harvard students rejoiced. The woes of the war—in which 11,319 University alumni, undergraduates, and faculty fought—and the grip of influenza—which infected 258 students in one year—finally lifted from the shoulders of the undergraduate body. Campus quarantine periods ended, distancing guidelines subsided, and masks […]