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Harvard Borrows $2.5 Billion: The Costs and Rationale
Moving promptly to tap the credit markets for additional financial resources--as signaled in the strategy outlined by President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President Ed Forst on December 2--the University sold $1.5 billion in taxable bonds on December …
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvards endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.7 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Issue: November-December 2006
Witness to Violence
After he was hanged, John Hughson’s lifeless body was hung in chains, next to Caesar’s rotting corpse, on the island in the midst of the Little Collect. But the executioner’s work was far from done. Before the sun went down, Albany, Curacoa, Dick, and …
Issue: September-October 2005
Off the Shelf
What Does a Black Hole Look Like? by Charles D. Bailyn, Ph.D. ’87, JF ’90 (Princeton, $34). The Giamatti professor of astronomy and physics at Yale (and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS College in Singapore) steers a middle course in explaining the …
Issue: January-February 2015
Alumni Coalition Opposes Harvard Overseer Slate
Following the announcement of a five-person petition slate of candidates in this spring’s voting for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers , and certification of the petitioners for placement on the ballot , a number of alumni have formed an opposing …
Strengths—and Warning Signs
For the fourth consecutive year, Harvard has reported a financial surplus—and its largest to date: $114 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017. And for at least the fourth consecutive year, the University’s senior financial officers have …
Issue: January-February 2018
A New Cast for the Semitic Museum
“Fun with goo!” chirped Peter Der Manuelian, director of the Harvard Semitic Museum , observing the activity in its third-floor gallery. Kneeling on the floor, three student volunteers in protective coats and blue latex gloves smeared a grainy, …
Cambridge 01238
1969, Echoing As an activist in the Harvard Strike of 1969 and the SDS speaker at the 1969 Commencement ceremony, I welcome the retrospective in the March-April issue ( “Echoes of 1969,” page 52). However, the article trivializes the events of April 1969 …
Issue: May-June 2019
A Diagnosis for American Health Care
Last Friday afternoon, as Republican senators began pushing toward a last-ditch vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and as Senator Bernie Sanders was making news with his proposed “Medicare for All” bill, a dozen health-care experts gathered at …
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
Last summer , Harvard University Press (HUP) asked a book designer to create a T-shirt for its softball squad’s intramural season. The front of the shirt bore the expression r > g, signifying that the rate of return on capital (r) is greater than the rate …
Issue: January-February 2015
Marc Hauser “Engaged in Research Misconduct”
The division of investigative oversight in the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has found that former Harvard professor of psychology Marc Hauser “engaged in research misconduct” in research …
Toward Cultural Citizenship
One day in the early spring of 2013, Alexander Rehding asked the students in his graduate seminar to join him in experiencing the sound of silence. As he led them through an exercise in deep listening, the students sat quietly for 15 minutes, becoming …
Issue: May-June 2014
Opera Reimagined
On the last day of winter break, as other undergraduates emerged from taxis and the T bleary-eyed and hauling suitcases, the cast of the Lowell House Opera gathered in the Lowell Junior Common Room to put together the pieces of The Unknowable for the …
“How War Has Made Us”
President Drew Faust has often described how the battle to achieve civil rights for African Americans shaped her worldview, from her youthful exposure to the upheaval over school desegregation in Virginia to her college involvement in the catalytic …
Harvard College’s Cross-Charles Classes
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is nearing a vote that will transform, and standardize, scheduling of classes. The motion presented to the faculty at its meeting today, for discussion and a vote later this semester, brings to fruition work begun in …