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Astonish Us, Class of 2018
At 2:15 Monday afternoon, this year’s freshmen thronged outside their dormitories, greeted by nearly 400 alumni marshals outfitted in lanyards and crimson baseball caps. The students shook hands with their elders. They each received, and donned, a class …
Extracurriculars
Seasonal The Farmers' Market at Harvard www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/ag_market.html In Cambridge: Tuesdays, noon-6 p.m. (rain or shine) 26 Oxford Street (new location: in front of the Harvard Museum of Natural History) In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 p.m. Corner …
Issue: September-October 2012
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+, …
The $3-Billion University
Harvard came within an eyelash of crossing the $3-billion threshold in annual revenues and expenses for the fiscal year ended last June 30—and closed its books just barely in the black, after generating strong financial surpluses during the past …
Issue: January-February 2007
Pigskin Programs
Between 1890 and 1919 , Harvard won seven college football national championships. Though the next decades featured strong teams and significant fan support, Crimson football never regained its national prestige. Harvard’s gameday football programs from …
Issue: November-December 2023
Five Mountains and Parks for the Hiking Enthusiast
Wildflowers and Rock Formations: Five Mountains and Parks for the Hiking Enthusiast by Cassandra Luca, Let’s Go Editorial Director Hikeable mountains and well-preserved parks dot the New England landscape; there are so many, it might be difficult to …
Harvard Borrows $2.5 Billion: The Costs and Rationale
Moving promptly to tap the credit markets for additional financial resources--as signaled in the strategy outlined by President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President Ed Forst on December 2--the University sold $1.5 billion in taxable bonds on December …
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 dressed in an all-black outfit—Adidas track pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and drove from his home in Compton, …
A Model City
‘‘ Homo sapiens tends to fall in love with miniatures,” says Fred Gevalt ’72, M.Arch. ’76. In his case, over the past eight years, in the basement of his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, Gevalt has painstakingly built a complex diorama depicting an …
Issue: January-February 2025
Final Club Fallout
In the weeks since College dean Rakesh Khurana and President Drew Faust announced that Harvard would take action against unrecognized single-gender social organizations on campus, both those opposed and those in favor of the policy—ranging from members of …
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Nearly six feet tall, Winthrop Bell (A.M. 1909) was a handsome, blond, blue-eyed philosopher, prisoner of war, and MI6 spy. An athletic outdoorsman, he had survived arduous employment as a surveyor in the wilds of northern Canada before coming to Harvard. …
Issue: March-April 2024
The Mediatrician
This past June , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that violent video games posed no more danger to children than the grimmest of Grimms’ fairy tales. At issue was a California ban of the sale of violent video games to minors—and seven of the nine justices …
Issue: November-December 2011
University News Briefs
Tough Grading for Gen Ed The College’s flagship general-education curriculum came under sharp criticism when a faculty review committee released its report for discussion at the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting. The requirement that …
Issue: July-August 2015
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 …
How to Spend a Day in Faenza
By: Let's Go travel Whilst frolicking through the hills and gelaterias of Italy, make time for a day trip to Faenza. Faenza is known worldwide for its tradition of ceramic making or faience, dating back to the twelfth century. Besides that, the town is …