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John Adams at Harvard
Editor’s note: As early-action applicants to the College class of 2021 anxiously await a response, the account of an admissions ordeal in 1751 may offer perspective. Richard Alan Ryerson ’64 includes the passage in his new book, John Adams’s Republic: The …
Issue: November-December 2016
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
The most versatile chemists in the world live inside us. Trillions of microbes, of several hundred species, an aggregation containing 150 times as many unique genes as a human, make our bodies their home. More biological activity may take place between …
Issue: July-August 2021
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Green Goals A new task force, appointed by President Drew Faust on February 27, will examine Harvard’s greenhouse-gas emissions and recommend University goals for reducing them; it is to report by the end of the academic year. Brooks professor of …
Issue: May-June 2008
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2+2 = M.B.A. Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched a deferred-admissions program for future M.B.A. candidates, aiming to attract liberal-arts majors in science, government, or other fields who might not have considered such a degree. Undergraduates …
Issue: November-December 2007
Josiah Meadows ’23 Latin Salutatory
The Value of a Harvard Education Josiah Meadows ’23, Latin Salutatory DE FRVCTIBVS INSTITVTIONIS HARVARDIANÆ ORATIO SALVTATORIA CANTABRIGIÆ NOV-ANGLORVM IN COMITIIS ACADEMICIS HABITA A. D. VIII. KAL. IVN. ANN. DOM. MMXXIII. REIPVB. AMERICANÆ CCXLVII. …
Exact Changes
In 2002—the year the Argentine peso collapsed, eliminating half the scheduled shows in their South American tour—husband-and-wife bandmates Damon Krukowski ’85 and Naomi Yang ’86 flew to neighboring Brazil to play the rest of the dates. The trip was a …
Issue: March-April 2016
Greening China
Three decades of rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by severe environmental degradation. In July 2007, the Financial Times headlined an article about a World Bank report on this problem, “750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution.” Our …
Issue: September-October 2008
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
Among the reasons why the United States might be considered exceptional, there’s one that puts it in unexpected company: along with China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, it ranks as one of the world’s top executioners. Because most countries have abolished …
Issue: January-February 2016
Six Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
The Rhodes Trust has announced that five Harvard seniors have been awarded American Rhodes Scholarships this fall. Among them, one is vice president of the Harvard Islamic Society and co-founder of the Ivy League Muslim Council, a second is pursuing …
Raising Voices
During the University’s traumatic fall semester, several harshly critical voices attracted outsized attention. Hedge fund financier Bill Ackman ’88, M.B.A. ’92, took to X to bash pro-Hamas students; assail then-President Claudine Gay; and declare …
Issue: May-June 2024
Dinner Without the Din
After spending the evening at an unnamed establishment, hollering at fellow dinner guests just to be heard, we were inspired to find a few reliably conversation-friendly haunts. A call to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, seeking guidance and …
Issue: November-December 2015
Putting Social Progress on Par with Prosperity
What are the ingredients of a healthy, inclusive society—one that offers its citizens opportunity, happiness, and a positive quality of life? According to Lawrence University Professor Michael E. Porter, models of human development based on economic …
Issue: November-December 2015
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Finding a Fellow The search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation last July—is in the hands of a six-member committee. Its members are three current Fellows of the Corporation ( …
Issue: November-December 2005
Giants
B oston brahmin. The towering Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. ’53, LL.D. ’99, concludes his new collection of essays (see Open Book ) with an appendix containing his Memorial Minutes for two fellow towering Harvard historians. …
Issue: March-April 2020
Gender Gap
On January 14, President Lawrence H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a two-day symposium hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Addressing a national academic audience -- rather …
Issue: March-April 2005