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Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
With the extensive collection of children’s books donated by Peter J. Solomon ’60, M.B.A. ’63, the newly renovated Houghton Library could have opened an exhibit of the genre’s “greatest hits.” Among other treasures, Solomon’s collection includes first …
“We’re Better Than That!”
Early in the fourth quarter of last Friday’s women’s basketball game against Brown, the Bears ripped off six unanswered points, so Delaney-Smith Head Coach Carrie Moore called a time-out: “We’re better than that!” she shouted to her players. Harvard was …
Harvard’s Year That Was
… course offerings, changes in the student handbook for 2024-2025, and a revamping of the policies governing doctoral …
Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the 2024 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during the Harvard Alumni Day festivities on May 31. Scott A. Abell ’72 has been an alumni leader for the University for more than 30 years. His …
Gary Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status
In a June 10 email to affiliates of the anthropology department, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Peabody Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced that she has stripped former Dumbarton Oaks professor of pre-Colombian studies Gary Urton of …
Harvard Medalists
THE HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Harvard Medal, to be awarded in person during the Harvard Alumni Day festivities on June 2. Paula A. Johnson ’80, M.D. ’84, M.P.H. ’85, a physician-scientist, educator, and …
Endowment Gain—and Gaps
The University’s endowment was valued at $37.6 billion on last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2015—a gain of $1.2 billion (3.3 percent) from a year earlier—finally exceeding the peak value (not adjusted for inflation) realized in fiscal 2008, just before …
Issue: November-December 2015
Small Talk, From Afar
As Leo Koerner ’26 trudged upstairs with Declan Deady ’27, a three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood veneer and plastered with Soviet-era maps, he had just a few moments to …
Issue: May-June 2025
The End of Murphy Time
On Thursday , during a Zoom media conference the day after announcing his retirement, Tim Murphy was informed by Harvard director of athletics Erin McDermott that no one could hear him because he had muted himself. In the oft-voluble Murphy’s 30 years at …
A Tale of Two Universities
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina famously begins, “All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.” To abuse that classic brutally, one might say that in flush times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of …
Issue: March-April 2021
“No Going Back to Normal”
During much of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced closures throughout the country, Ibrahim Barry felt stuck in his head. A 15-year-old freshman hoping to play college basketball someday, he found himself with no gyms available and no school to …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
With a deeply researched report released in April and a conference a few days later , Harvard joined the long list of universities that have conducted public investigations into their historic ties to slavery. In Harvard’s case, those ties—direct, …
Issue: July-August 2022
Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future
“I really like things that, if they work, really matter—even if they don’t have a super high chance of working,” Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, told a crowd of students who packed Memorial Church to hear him speak on May 1. He explained what …
Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Appeals
T he Supreme Court announced this morning that it will hear Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) appeal of its litigation opposing the consideration of race in Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process. In the formal language of the Court, it announced …
The Day’s Events: Wednesday, May 27
EVENTS FOR Wednesday, May 27, include: ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, 11:30 A.M. in Tercentenary Theatre. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will celebrate Centennial Medalists at a luncheon. Harvard College Class Day will begin at 2 P.M. in …