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… If Harvard has not committed to divestment by the end of 2025, the funds would be directed to tax-exempt …
Issue: May-June 2015
May-June 2024
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Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge Named Hasty Pudding’s 2023 Man and Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals will soon hand the Pudding Pot to actors Jennifer Coolidge and Bob Odenkirk, their 2023 Woman and Man of the Year. Woman of the Year Coolidge is beloved for her iconic performances in Legally Blonde (set at Harvard Law …
A Return to the Beloved Community
“I’m going to tell you three stories,” said Reginald Dwayne Betts to listeners at the Cambridge Public Library Tuesday evening, at the start of remarks honoring Martin Luther King Jr. A Harvard visiting lecturer in English, Betts is a poet, practicing …
Harvard Football: New Season, New Coach
The winter , spring, and summer of our discontent having concluded, Harvard’s 2024 football season kicks off this Saturday—appropriately enough, the first day of autumn—at noon ET in Harvard Stadium against Stetson. (The game will be streamed on ESPN+, …
Football 2022: Princeton 37-Harvard 10
This time, it was fair and square. Unlike last year, when Princeton was awarded a contested, five-overtime 18-16 victory over Harvard , last Friday night nearly 11,000 spectators at the Stadium as well as an ESPNU audience saw the Tigers pummel the …
“A Game of Inches”
Last September , the members of the Harvard women’s basketball team stood in their locker room, anticipating a painful exercise. This wasn’t a drill or conditioning test; it was a ritual for the path ahead. Each player had to set an intention and then …
“Study-Ins” and Studying
The bullhorn-led responsive chanting and shouted epithets that marked the fall semester a year ago—after the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war in Gaza and beyond—gave way to something quieter, and subtly different, this autumn: pro-Palestinian …
Max J. Krupnick , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2025
Harvard’s Financial Outlook
The University ’s severely challenging academic year —marked by a community divided over the Middle East war, an abrupt change of presidents, a pro-Palestinian encampment that spawned protests at Commencement —ended formally June 30. That also concluded …
Reparations as Public Health
“Health is wealth ,” said Julia Mejia, Boston City Councilor At-Large, during a conversation Monday afternoon with Harvard’s Mary T. Bassett about reparations for slavery as a public health measure. “All these things are really interconnected…and health …
Harvard Haves and Have-Nots
Anthony Abraham Jack has written an important, passionate analysis of the conditions and challenges facing students from lower-income families and underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds at Harvard—and by extension, at other elite, …
Smooth Start
Leaders of this and other campuses wracked by turmoil during the 2023-2024 academic year following the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war naturally approached this fall term warily. Would pro-Palestinian protestors again set up encampments, or …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Nature of Archives
In her 2021 installation “Potomitans,” shown at Art Basel in Switzerland, the Franco-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga suspended 39 dainty silver chains from the ceiling, adorning them with handmade sculptures of leaves, berries, and flowers from Mimosa …
Issue: November-December 2022
Hopi Hoekstra Appointed Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean
B iologist Hopi e.Hoekstra will become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) effective August 1. She will succeed Claudine Gay, president-elect, who is the first FAS dean chosen to lead the University. During July, Emma Dench, who continues to …
Harvard’s Allston Science and Engineering Complex Approved
… and discovery.” Eventually, Doyle said, the vision for 2025 and beyond includes: Harvard’s new Gateway building …