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A Financial Surplus—and Some Surprises
The University completed fiscal year 2014, ended last June 30, with a modest surplus, following two years of modest deficits. According to the annual financial report, published today, Harvard closed its books $2.7 million in the black, as operating …
Duty Calls
Eleven years after she was kicked out of the military under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, veteran aviator Lissa Young has returned to West Point. Armed with a 2013 Harvard doctorate, at the age of 52, Young is finishing her first semester as an assistant …
Issue: May-June 2014
Spring Forward
New England may not be widely known for its public gardens, but those that do grow here inspire passion in the hearts of hardy-zoned green thumbs. The Glebe House, for example—the Connecticut birthplace of the Episcopal Church in the New World—also boasts …
Issue: March-April 2013
Hello from Havana
President Raúl Castro’s principal contribution thus far to the lives of ordinary Cubans has been that television soap operas now start on time. He often reminds his fellow citizens of this seemingly impossible accomplishment, after decades during which …
Issue: July-August 2009
Cambridge 02138
Affordable College Costs In “ Reopening the Doors to College ” (March-April, page 24), Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler propose that the federal government help pay college costs. Yes, college keeps costing more. At the University of Texas, instruction …
Issue: May-June 2009
Up Next: The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
Ferran Adrià didn't even need to demonstrate anything to get oohs and ahhs from his audience. During the world-renowned Catalan chef's speech in a Harvard lecture hall last week, videos of his playful, experimental cooking techniques sufficed. "Caviar" …
Making It
From European spices and fine French fare to free-range beef and elderberry wine, Harvard alumni throughout New England are asserting their entrepreneurial rights to create delicious things to eat. Their businesses cater to those who like to know where …
Issue: November-December 2006
Brevia
Photograph by Jim Harrison Sit-ins = Suspension On February 28, President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new interpretation of the University's "Statement on Rights and Responsibilities," adopted in 1970 after the student occupation of University Hall in …
Issue: May-June 2002
Failure to Finish
A t approximately 4:05 p.m. on November 2, the 2019 Harvard football season began unraveling. Until that moment, the campaign was proceeding in the style to which coach Tim Murphy’s teams had been accustomed for two decades. With six seconds remaining in …
Issue: January-February 2020
Jerrold Rosenbaum: Are Psychedelics an Effective Treatment for Mood Disorders?
Are psychedelics an effective treatment for mood disorders? Jerrold Rosenbaum, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, discusses the potential of using psychedelics, such as MDMA and magic mushrooms, …
The Egalitarian
At the moment , no book is more visible or abundant at the gift shop of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where more than a million visitors a year come to view the earliest copies of America’s founding documents, than Our Declaration —the most …
Issue: May-June 2016
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
If only because politicians frequently quote them, you’re likely familiar with poet Seamus Heaney’s stirring lines about the too-rare possibility that “justice can rise up, / And hope and history rhyme.” President Joe Biden, for one, has often cited the …
A Family Farm
Three weeks before calving season at Keewaydin Ranch, two ranch hands yell and swat at the cows—“Hey! C’mon. Git. Git in there!”—ushering them out of a corral and into a squeeze shoot. The metal compartment holds the 1,200-pound creatures still enough for …
Issue: July-August 2018
From Here to Timbuktu
How Father Columba Stewart ’79, a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, came to be hiding in a Timbuktu hotel during a jihadist attack last summer is a story that begins in the fifth century. But the short answer is: he had flown to the medieval center of …
Issue: January-February 2018
Harvard Imposes Single-Gender Social Club Sanctions
Harvard College will implement the sanctions on student membership in unrecognized single-gender social organizations (USGSOs: the final clubs, fraternities, and sororities) first announced by President Drew Faust and dean of Harvard College Rakesh …