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Harvard Endowment Increases $11.3 Billion and University Operates at a Surplus
A 33.6 percent return on endowment investments, as expense controls and donor support buoy the budget in an unprecedented year
Committee Recommends a More Transparent Tenure Process
Group finds that tenure is not broken but can use improvements.
by Jacob Sweet
Football 2021: Harvard 24, Cornell 10
Harvard remains undefeated with a win over Cornell.
Memorable Mentors
Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
by Primus VI
An Obligation to Dignity
Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
The Paintings Found Behind a Shelf of Books in the Harvard Botanical Museum
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
by Edward Tabor
Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History
Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.
Reopening. . .Carefully
Resuming Harvard in residence, with continuing coronavirus cautions
American Ingenuity
Springfield Armory National Historic Site
People-Powered Journalism
At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”
Speaking Pheromone
How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history