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Football 2023: Princeton 21-Harvard 14
The past week saw two wunderkind quarterbacks humbled, each for the first time. After 10 straight regular-season victories spanning two seasons, Brock Purdy of the San Francisco 49ers rallied his team from behind but lost to the Cleveland Browns 19-17. …
At Home With Harvard: Editors' Favorite Stories of 2020
Our editors take great care in choosing story topics for every issue. While some events from this year accounted for much of our web traffic (need one say “COVID”?), other articles brought our readers joy or provoked good, critical thought. Below, the …
Behind the Scenes: Reporting the latest discoveries
Managing editor Jonathan Shaw shares what led him to feature Sharad Ramanathan in the January-February issue. People often ask me how we choose our subjects. In the case of Sharad Ramanathan, a quantitative biologist , I hoped to answer a question: How …
Behind the Scenes: Covering Opioids
I want to tell you how support from Sustainers like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. Early in his presidency, Larry Bacow decided to demonstrate his commitment to highlighting Harvard’s …
Harvard’s Financial Outlook in an Unprecedented Semester
Just 10 weeks ago , Harvard deans learned that the Corporation would decrease distributions from the endowment, rather than increasing them , in light of the pandemic-induced recession and reduced investment values. The projected decline, 2 percent, was …
We Were Students Once...
...And Young. That’s the starting point of The Nancy Poems (Cirque Press, 2024), by John Morgan ’65. First, the backstory. Morgan took Robert Lowell’s poetry seminar in both his junior and senior years, and then headed from Cambridge to the Iowa Writers’ …
Issue: May-June 2025
College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024
The College has admitted 1,980 of 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024 (895 of whom were admitted through early action in December). The 4.9 percent admit rate is up from 4.5 percent last year, reflecting an applicant pool down by about 3,000 students. …
Faculty Voices, Round Two
On January 31, President Alan M. Garber announced the inaugural members of his University Faculty Advisory Council, a two-year experiment announced last November as a means of bringing faculty views to bear on Harvard-wide issues. The council will meet …
Alumni Interviewer Honors
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards —the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, as well—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective …
Issue: November-December 2020
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Brown 28
Harvard football —it’s torture. After scraping by in an overtime thriller last week against unheralded Merrimack , the Crimson traveled to Providence on Saturday and on a sunny, breezy afternoon built a 28-point lead over Brown in the Ivy League opener …
Summer/Steiner Fellowship
THE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP The Summer Fellowship provides summer support for a student to join Harvard Magazine’ s editorial staff as a reporter and writer, while also receiving an introduction to the business aspects of magazine operations. Current Harvard …
Radcliffe Fellows for 2015-2016 Announced
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced its fellows for 2015-2016. The more than 50 men and women include creative artists, humanists, scientists, and social scientists, each pursuing “an ambitious individual project within the …
Continuity and Change
H ow do you know that the University’s 372 nd Commencement, conducted this morning, represented a complete return to post-pandemic normalcy? For one thing, conversation before the Big Day focused on whether the weather would be fair for the singing of …
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Missed Some of 2020’s Best Films?
Because many viewers missed out on 2020 films, the Brattle Theatre’s Ned Hinkle and Coolidge Corner Theater’s Beth Gilligan shared some recommendations: • Ghost Tropic: A Muslim cleaning woman sleeps through her subway stop and must get home on foot. …