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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 …
Over the River Dept.
Branding. Even when at play, apparently, the M.B.A.s-to-be at Harvard Business School (HBS) are also at work. The lawn between the spiffy Klarman Hall (HBS’s terrific conference facility) and the Schwartz Pavilion (for covered outdoor lounging) is …
Issue: March-April 2023
President Bacow and Kevin Young at Annual Alumni Meeting
F ollowing the second pandemic-induced virtual graduation exercises , on May 27, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) conducted its annual meeting this year, also virtually , on June 4, in keeping with its plan announced late last year. The event anchored …
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Overseer Candidates State Their Views
In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards— Harvard Magazine asked each nominated candidate to answer these questions: • What are the most important …
The Fighting Pencil
Say it once and it sounds like a tongue-twister. Say it again and it sounds like an oxymoron: “Soviet state-sponsored anti-bureaucracy propaganda posters.” It’s still a tongue-twister, but on closer inspection, it’s less of an oxymoron than you might …
Issue: March-April 2022
Orators Three
Each year, three student speakers address the Commencement crowd in Tercentenary Theatre: the student “parts” that are an essential feature of Harvard’s graduation traditions. Here Harvard Magazine profiles the honored student speakers at the 373 rd …
Arts and Engineering
Despite a recent media focus on campus protests and changes in institutional leadership, substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty growth in fields spanning both arts and sciences. …
Issue: March-April 2025
Timely Recovery
Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a 7.3 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. The endowment’s value on that date was $41.9 billion: up $1.0 billion (2.4 percent) from $40.9 billion a year earlier . In a …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin ’89 always notices the hands: how they move when a person speaks, where they come to rest, whether they’re folded or open, fidgety or quiet, how they cradle the chin or fall into the lap or reach out across a table. For a portrait painter …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard Study: EPA’s Fine-Particle Pollution Standards May Be Too Loose
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s standards for particulate-matter pollution may not be strict enough to protect public health, according to a recent study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, led by …
Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita, 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Oration—“Free and Brave”: Defending Universities and the Rule of Truth
I am honored to be here today celebrating your achievements and grateful for this opportunity to speak after 11 years of silence at these Literary Exercises—sitting where President Garber is right now. And I am honored to join a long line of distinguished …
Her Campus Pulls Off “Epic” Virtual Graduation
“The class of 2020 is the class of resilience, the class of changemakers,” said Her Campus founders Stephanie Kaplan Lewis ’10, Annie Wang ’10, and Windsor Hanger Western ’10 as they introduced their live virtual graduation last Friday for any young woman …
Virtual Graduation 2.0
Anyone who worked remotely during the past 16 months knows that doing business digitally is fast and productive . More evidence came during “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021,” on May 27: the second COVID-era virtual graduation program (minus 30,000 …
Issue: July-August 2021
A Harvard Agenda Shaped by Speech
Ordinarily , a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean might be expected to devote herself to learning about colleagues’ work, en route to formulating an agenda for investment in new academic priorities and planning how to secure the financial …
Harvard Football’s Stolen Ivy Title
The Yale Bowl, Nov. 20, 2021. With 26 seconds remaining, Harvard trails Yale 31-27, but the Crimson is knocking at the Eli goal. It is third down and 10 from the Yale 12-yard-line and Harvard, having failed at two pass attempts in the end zone, has a …
Issue: January-February 2022