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Football 2022: Yale 19-Harvard 14
E arly in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Harvard’s Jonah Lipel booted the extra point following quarterback Charlie Dean’s touchdown pass to tight end Tyler Neville. For the first time—and unaccountably—the Crimson led, 14-13, over Yale in the 138th …
Behind the Scenes: Getting things right
It sounds almost too obvious to say: in writing about other people’s lives, the biggest responsibility is to get things right. This is not just a question of facts; it’s also a matter of tone and emphasis and balance, of choosing the truest detail …
Recruiting for Economic Diversity
… to increase their enrollment of Pell Grant recipients. By 2025, the program aims “to attract, enroll, and graduate an …
2022 HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received the Harvard Alumni Association’s HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University: Janet Nezhad Band ’83, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’90, of New York City, a three-time recipient of the Albert H. Gordon ’23 Award for her …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Faculty Resumes Growing
The 2021-2022 report on faculty trends, one of two parts of Dean Claudine Gay’s annual report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), released today, shows modest growth in the professorial ranks, after pandemic-induced shrinkage. But it also contains …
Harvard College Admits 4.6 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2022
The College has admitted 1,962 of 42,749 applicants to the class of 2022 (nearly half of them—964—had already been admitted through early action in December). The 4.6 percent admit rate is Harvard’s lowest ever, reflecting both an 8 percent increase in …
Football 2021: Harvard 49, Columbia 21
New York , New York, it’s a wonderful town. After two consecutive soul-crushing losses, to Princeton and Dartmouth respectively, the Harvard football team ventured to Manhattan on Saturday to face Columbia. The Crimson got a needed restorative, playing …
Honoris Causa
Seven men and three women received honorary degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, in the order below. Anthony S. Fauci. Director of the National Institute of Allergy …
Issue: July-August 2009
Football 2021: Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
Halloween weekend was an appropriate time for the Harvard football team to continue its two-season Danse Macabre of close and excruciating defeat. This time, at least, the result did not involve overtime or controversy. Thanks to a 25-yard field goal by …
Adam Falk and Natalie Diaz at Phi Beta Kappa
The orator and poet at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Adam Falk, Ph.D. ’91, and Natalie Diaz. They are scheduled to appear on Tuesday morning, May 23, …
Black Ink—and Red
As the pandemic spread suffering around the globe, it perversely improved the University’s finances: the $406-million operating surplus realized in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, was the largest to date. That result, disclosed in the annual …
Issue: January-February 2023
Marc Goodheart Relinquishes Governing Boards Role
Marc Goodheart ’81, J.D. ’85, Secretary of the University since 1998—and thus the chief administrative officer of the two governing boards, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers—will relinquish that post following the Commencement ceremonies …
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Alexander Rehding’s interstellar reach
When I first arrived at Harvard Magazine , the other editors provided me with a packet of story ideas. They hoped to spare me from wandering confusedly around Harvard Yard begging freshmen and tourists for suggestions. Fortunately, the list was …
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
During the 373rd Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate six distinguished leaders, conferring honorary degrees on three men and three women: a courageous journalist who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner; a U.S. poet laureate, and an acclaimed …
Off the Shelf
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Issue: May-June 2025