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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
Recruiting for Economic Diversity
… to increase their enrollment of Pell Grant recipients. By 2025, the program aims “to attract, enroll, and graduate an …
News in Brief
… points to work on facade restoration beginning in 2024 and 2025, respectively. Projects in the planning stage include …
Issue: March-April 2024
Taking Climate Action at Harvard
… how might the U.S. Congress pass a form of carbon tax in 2025? Those were among the high-priority, and admittedly … in the future. In the next session, “Carbon Pricing in 2025?” the discussion among U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse … during the Trump presidency are set to expire at the end of 2025, which could lead to a broad discussion of climate and …
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the housing crisis
News coverage of the astronomically high cost of housing tends to emphasize short-term factors such as sudden shifts in interest rates, or pandemic-precipitated moves among young people. These are among the proximate causes of unaffordability right now. …
Cambridge 02138
… allow car culture to do so much harm.W hen the March-April 2025 issue of the magazine arrived, I eagerly turned to the … Baker ‘72 Branford, Conn. The article in the March-April 2025 issue, “Safe Streets: Working to Curb Road Deaths,” … pursuing that topic here, I will only note that in January 2025 Harvard officially adopted the IHRA (International …
Issue: May-June 2025
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
Behind the Scenes: Quality of Care
Americans don’t talk much about disability. It’s a subject that rarely cracks the national conversation, and even in one-on-one interactions, people often avoid it. There’s fear, and shame, and stigma; sometimes people just don’t know what to say. But, …
Paying a $1.4-Billion Repair Bill
… the renewal project’s projected conclusion in fiscal 2025. The loss of income of course continues thereafter, …
Issue: November-December 2016
Yesterday’s News
… … 88564 … Short Headlines from Harvard History Spring 2025 … 1506 … Yesterday’s News … article …
Issue: March-April 2025
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Cornell 28
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Playing on the road last weekend against an Ivy bottom-feeder, the Harvard football team bolted to a seemingly insurmountable lead, then frittered most of it away. In a result that hung in the balance until the …
2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’ s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers’ applications …
Issue: September-October 2005
Closing the Gap
… for tutoring and after-school programs for the 2024-2025 school year. After the deadline, federal relief dollars …
Behind the Scenes: The Power of Human Connection
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine—like me, a writer and reporter , and also like me a natural introvert—said something very true. People like us, he said, go into journalism for the writing , only to discover that it’s the reporting —the human …
Football 2021: Harvard 34, Yale 31
There are at least three laws of the Harvard-Yale game: 1.) No lead is safe 2.) It ain’t over till it’s over and 3.) Afterward, even the victors are as limp as a used washrag. The 137th battle, played Saturday at the Yale Bowl, obeyed all three. Harvard …