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Small Talk, From Afar
As Leo Koerner ’26 trudged upstairs with Declan Deady ’27, a three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood veneer and plastered with Soviet-era maps, he had just a few moments to …
Issue: May-June 2025
Centennial Medalists 2021
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is the …
Behind the Scenes: Vita
Vita debuted in the January-February 1977 issue of Harvard Magazine , a new department to mark a new, bimonthly, publishing schedule. Devised by then-managing editor Christopher Reed, the two-page, text-plus-portrait feature aimed to introduce …
India's Dropping Wind-Power Potential
… to become the most populous country in the world by 2025. By 2040, energy consumption is projected to …
Football 2021: Harvard 30, Lafayette 3
On Saturday at the Stadium , in a stress-free tune-up for the heavyweight tussles to come, the Harvard football team stayed perfect in 2021 with a 30-3 victory over Patriot League rival Lafayette. Ranked no. 19 in the Football Championship Subdivision, …
July-August 2024
The July-August 2024 issue of Harvard Magazine. … July-August 2024 … issue …
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
Harvard College announced today that 2,056 students have been offered admission to the class of 2021 ( including the 938 accepted last December under the early-action program). The College received a record 39,506 applications this year, up just 1 percent …
Harvard Squared PDF Archives
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A Harvard “As Humane as It Is Humbling”: Morning Prayers
… first-year convocation talks (for the classes of 2024 and 2025) in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. Matthew Ichihashi … Your Portion” Speaking for the first time to the class of 2025, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana emphasized the …
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Oneself
As a Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , my job was to give alumni a look into College life by writing about the undergraduate I knew best: me. For my final essay as a fellow, I reflected on my sudden return home after the COVID-19 …
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
No celebration for the Office for the Arts (OFA) could possibly capture the organization’s broad reach . Nearly 40 percent of Harvard’s 7,000 undergraduates participate in OFA programming every year. Through classes, apprenticeships, and funding …
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
… not be invited back to Adams House when it re-opens in 2025 after renovations. Faculty Deans Becerra and Keshavjee … congregate,” it read in part, and later explained that in 2025, “the space where the Press is located will revert to …
The New Crew
Harvard Magazine welcomes Aden Barton ’24 and Isabella Cho ’24 to its editorial staff as the 2023-2024 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Starting in the November-December issue, they will alternate as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, …
Issue: September-October 2023
Great Expectations
Late in the evening of Friday, September 16, after nearly 53 minutes of indifferent play in its season opener against Merrimack , the Harvard football team—the school’s 148th—shucked off its rust, flexed its muscles, and showed why pundits in the Ivy …
Issue: November-December 2022
Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard
Since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, more and more Harvard students are considering the relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The topic frequently emerges in charged settings among like-minded students: on social media, at …