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Gabby Thomas ’19 Wins Olympic Trials, Heads to Tokyo
Former Harvard student-athlete Gabby Thomas ’19 made history on Saturday, becoming the second-fastest woman ever in the women’s 200 meters and clinching a spot at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Her time of 21.61 seconds was the best since 1988, when Florence …
The Justice Gap
Almost a century ago , a young Boston lawyer named Reginald Heber Smith published a landmark book called Justice and the Poor . It was about how people struggling economically were faring in the American legal system and why American lawyers needed to …
Issue: November-December 2017
A “Magic Bus” for City Kids
The magic bus campus , designed by professor of urban design and planning Rahul Mehrotra, aims to ease cultural divides starting with India’s youngest citizens. The name of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) refers to the bus that brings children from …
Issue: May-June 2012
Doug McMillon’s Business School address
Hello, everyone. I am deeply honored to be asked to speak with you today, the graduates of Harvard Business School. I'm really excited for you. Congratulations on what you've accomplished. You should be full of hope and aspirations. I'm personally very …
What Does It Mean To Be a Corporate Citizen?
“ There could really be no more important discussion than the one we are having today,” said Kissel professor of law David Wilkins last Thursday, introducing a daylong conference that plunged into what has become an intensely controversial subject: ESG. …
University People
Freshman Dean Graduates Thomas A. Dingman Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Six months after celebrating his fiftieth College reunion ( Commencement Confetti , July-August 2017, page 19), dean of freshmen Thomas A. Dingman said he will step down next June. …
Issue: January-February 2018
From “New College Theatre” to Farkas Hall
The New College Theatre , created from 2005 to 2007 by new construction behind, and a renovation of, the façade of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals venue, finally has a name. The University announced today that Andrew L. Farkas ’82 had endowed the complex in …
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
Centered on Community
With natural disaster (Hurricane Harvey) and cultural confrontation (in Charlottesville and elsewhere) occupying the national conversation, Harvard leaders chose to focus on this community’s purposes and values as they welcomed the College class of 2021 …
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Issue: November-December 2017
Banned in Sparta
Think words and music: Rogers and Hammerstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, the brothers Gershwin. Sometimes, collaborators might not even have met. For example, works by Greek poets of the Archaic period (800-500 B.C.E.)—centuries before the Classical era of …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32
OCTOBER 19, 1929: BARRY WOOD BEATS ARMY, 20-20 WHEN LAST WE SPOKE , following Harvard’s 50-43, double-overtime loss to Yale in November —a day which will live in infamy, to employ the phrase made immortal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.B. 1904, LL.D. …
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
For “persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post’ s David Fahrenthold ’00 has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting. Colson Whitehead ’91 was honored with …
COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought
One of the basic indicators for determining the possible course of the coronavirus pandemic is how many other people an infected individual will infect. In epidemiological science, this factor is called the basic reproduction number, or R nought (R 0 ). …
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
Last week, the first rapid, inexpensive, coronavirus tests were finally approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration. These self-administered tests, which don’t require a physician’s prescription, can be used by anyone to determine whether …
The Purpose of Harvard Law School
This past year, Harvard Law School (HLS) experienced an intensely public moral crisis. After the portraits of African-American professors were found defaced in Wasserstein Hall, a racial justice movement calling itself Reclaim Harvard Law School formed in …