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… in the prior year, and accepted 747 members of the class of 2025 (versus 895 early admissions in the prior year). Peer …
Issue: March-April 2021
The Student Commencement Speakers
After two years of virtual ceremonies, the 371 st Commencement exercises will feature three live student speakers for the first time since 2019. The three orators speaking this Thursday, selected in a University-wide competition, are Benjamin Porteous …
Danielle Allen Debates Far-Right Blogger Curtis Yarvin
On Monday , controversial far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin came to Cambridge to debate Harvard political scientist Danielle Allen . It was an unlikely pairing. Allen is a scholar of and advocate for democracy. Yarvin wants to replace the U.S. government …
Harvard Cancelled Affinity Celebrations. Students Held Them Anyway.
“There’s no class I would rather be addressing than you all,” said journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the 1619 Project, to the hundreds of students and families gathered in a conference room at the Boston Marriott in …
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Pay
HARVARD TODAY RELEASED its 2021 tax filings, covering fiscal year 2022 (July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior …
Cambridge 02138
… … Letters to the Editor Harvard Magazine January-February 2025 … 8479 … Cambridge 02138 … article …
Issue: January-February 2025
Harvard Medical School Master’s Graduates Encouraged to Confront Misinformation
… Harvard Medical School’s 2025 master’s graduates are entering their professions …
International Student Ban Casts a Shadow on Harvard Commencement
… On the first day of activities for Harvard’s 2025 Commencement ceremonies, the steps of Widener Library … a cheer erupted from the crowd. As Harvard’s Class of 2025 graduates, uncertainty still looms over many of their …
College Admits 4.5 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2023
The College has admitted 1,950 of 43,330 applicants to the class of 2023 (935 of whom were admitted through early action in December). The 4.5 percent admit rate is Harvard’s lowest ever, down slightly from 4.6 percent last year; it reflects the largest …
Fixing a “World on Fire”
… use 100 percent renewable energy in its U.S. operations by 2025. “When we set this goal,” said Siemen, “we didn’t quite …
Headliners
Harvard will welcome a lot of high-wattage speakers to campus this graduation season, reflecting the unusual number of University events. Commencement proper, for the class of 2022, takes place Thursday morning, May 26. The Radcliffe Day events follow on …
Issue: May-June 2022
Thor Reimann ’25, Undergraduate English Address: This World is not Conclusion
… tells you. Because this world is not conclusion . Class of 2025, it is commencement.’ … A poem from the speaker’s …
Radcliffe Celebrates 25
When Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith became president of Radcliffe College in 1960, she sought to combat what she called “a national climate of unexpectation” surrounding women’s education. As part of that mission, she created the Radcliffe Institute for …
Harvard Reports $406-Million Surplus, but Endowment Declines
Harvard’s annual financial report for the year ended June 30, 2022, published today, reflects a University that has returned robustly to full operation, after residential instruction was suspended from March 2020 through the following academic year, but …
At Home with Harvard: Our Most Popular Stories of 2020
2020 was a year none of us ever expected . I started working for Harvard Magazine as the digital content strategist in mid January and experienced about one and a half months in the office before we transitioned to working from home. I distinctly remember …