
Portraits:
Harvards vast portrait collection may not include any of the talking paintings that guard doorways and spread gossip throughout Hogwarts, but it does have at least one with a ghostly mystery: behind the likeness of 18th-century Harvard president Benjamin Wadsworth (left) in University Hall, X-ray photography has revealed the visage of an unknown man wearing a 17th-century scarf.
(Globe Correspondent Graphic / Matthew Battles/ Javier Zarracina)

