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The New Gender Gaps
Nick Cato has always liked working with his hands. Growing up in a small town just outside Hillsborough, North Carolina, he says, “I was always outside, messing around, building stuff, climbing trees.” He enjoyed reading, but he struggled in school, where …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Week’s Words
“The Rule of Truth” In a year of harsh attacks on higher education, and worrisome erosions of academic freedom, Drew Gilpin Faust, president emerita, focused her May 21 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) oration on the values and worth of universities, and the threats …
Issue: July-August 2024
Land of the Living
In April and May , birders flock to Mount Auburn Cemetery. Dressed in fleece and caps, binoculars slung around their necks, they enter by the Egyptian Revival gateway at 7 a.m. , and spread stealthily across the sculpted 175-acre landscape. Winding …
Issue: May-June 2017
Opera Reimagined
On the last day of winter break, as other undergraduates emerged from taxis and the T bleary-eyed and hauling suitcases, the cast of the Lowell House Opera gathered in the Lowell Junior Common Room to put together the pieces of The Unknowable for the …
What Work Means
Not long ago , I was talking with a representative of a large private company that recruits at Harvard. The company naturally seeks to make money. As an economics concentrator, I understand and appreciate the role such incentives play. As a living and …
Issue: November-December 2023
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Holy Cross 28
Football consists of three components: offense, defense, and special teams. On Saturday at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harvard excelled in all three. The upshot was a major upset, with the Crimson taking down Holy Cross 38-28. The Crusaders, …
On Caregiving
In 1966, as a visiting medical student at a London teaching hospital, I interviewed a husband and wife, in their early twenties, who had recently experienced a truly calamitous health catastrophe. On their wedding night, in their first experience of …
Issue: July-August 2010
"We Need a Win"
Editor’s note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for office, we asked Garrett Graff ’03 to talk with two Harvard graduates who have decided to step back from front-line …
Issue: September-October 2007
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvards endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.7 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Issue: November-December 2006
Spellbound on Stage
“If you want me to, you know, pretend to be a raccoon, I can do that really well,” says actor, singer, and author Aislinn Brophy ’17. “Anything that involves music and movement. That’s kind of an odd, specific theater thing. But I find that I get cast a …
Issue: March-April 2024
Harvard Endowment Increases $11.3 Billion to $53.2 Billion, and University Operations Yield $283-Million Surplus Despite Pandemic
H arvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, published today, shows much more favorable results than might have been expected when the University was forced to send students home in March 2020, beginning more than a year of …
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Columbia 24
Guess who is in first place in the Ivy League, with its destiny in its hands? Harvard, that’s who. With a 38-24 defeat of Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson, which entered the game ranked No. 19 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), rose to 7-1 …
Football 2023: Harvard 41-Cornell 23
Three if by land, and three if by…air. With apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, that’s the capsule description of the performance of Harvard’s Charles DePrima on Friday night at Harvard Stadium. The Crimson’s dual-threat junior …
Vacationing with a Purpose
Yearning to learn something new or dive deeper into a hobby? Want to escape pressures at work and quotidian tasks that can wear you down? Envious of your kids’ or grandkids’ camp vacations? Take heart: adults, too, can benefit from the freedom and fun …
Issue: March-April 2024
History in Progress
September 11, 2001, split Richard Beck’s adolescence in two. Fourteen on the day of the attacks, he was old enough to remember life before—when anyone could walk up to an airport gate, when students learned in school that history was over. He came of age …
Issue: September-October 2024