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College Conversers
Sipping organic turmeric ginger tea and munching crumbly cookies, seven students gathered in the Leverett Senior Common Room to talk, as they do each week. Their group size and discussion topics vary, as do their invited faculty guests. Members of the …
Issue: January-February 2025
FAS Details Debt, Financial Challenges
In preparation for a faculty meeting on December 9, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith released an " FAQ About the Endowment " on December 5. It follows up and considerably extends the discussion and questions raised at the November …
Why Can’t We Move?
The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. ’74, is perhaps the foremost analyst of public investments in sports facilities and …
Issue: July-August 2015
Fall Comes into Focus
When students begin arriving in Cambridge, about three weeks hence, they will enter a community temporarily transformed by the coronavirus. The College announced on July 6 that only about 40 percent of the 6,700 undergraduates would be permitted to be in …
Harvard in the Interim
Harvard ’s new normal began to take shape during the spring semester. New Corporation fellows were appointed (see “News in Brief,” this issue, page 23). Long-time provost Alan M. Garber, who had moved a few yards within Massachusetts Hall on January 2, …
Issue: May-June 2024
“O” for Opportunity
Imagine, against all the evidence, that the Supreme Court, which is hearing arguments on October 31 in the anti-affirmative-action lawsuits Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) has brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina , rules for …
Issue: November-December 2022
Harvard Basketball's Sibling Stars
On a Friday this October, Mason ’22 and McKenzie ’23 Forbes were standing outside Lavietes Pavilion, bobbing to music and smiling as their friends played cornhole and noshed on pizza. With temperatures lingering in the 60s, it seemed as though they could …
The Week’s Events
Commencement week includes addresses by Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust and former Massachusetts governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, J.D. ’82. For details and updates on event speakers, visit harvardmagazine.com/commencement * * * Tuesday, May 26 Phi Beta …
Issue: May-June 2015
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Elena Kagan in Dissent I got a good laugh out of the recent article on “ Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent ” (November-December 2022, page 28). For many people, the Court lost its legitimacy 60 years ago when the Warren Court started making up rights out of …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Causes of Long COVID
Although Americans have survived more than 93 million cases of COVID-19, the disease is not yet fully understood. And for an estimated 10 to 30 percent of those afflicted, the unanswered questions are even more vexing, because their recovery has not been …
Issue: September-October 2022
When Everything Goes Right Until...
On paper , as students encounter the Harvard Business School (HBS) case about Día Día Practimercados (DD; day-to-day shopping for practical goods, rendered in a Spanish neologism), it is the model of a successful business at the base of the pyramid. The …
Issue: September-October 2015
Portraying Larry Summers
Sixteen years after the portrait of President Neil L. Rudenstine (1991-2001) was unveiled in the Faculty Room in University Hall, that of his successor, Lawrence H. Summers (2001-2006), was introduced at a celebration in Widener Library on September 23. …
Issue: November-December 2022
Prospective Overseers State Their Views
In light of the importance of the annual election for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—and heightened interest stemming from last year’s vigorously contested results and the possibility of a similar contest this year — Harvard Magazine is …
Harvard College Admissions Rate Falls to 6.2 Percent
Harvard College today announced that 2,158 students, from among 34,950 applicants, had been offered admission to the class of 2015, entering this August. The admission rate, slightly under 6.2 percent, fell from 6.9 percent last year, driven by a nearly …
Black Students Speak
“Black students were always watching,” historian Jarvis Givens told listeners Tuesday evening during an online discussion of his newest book, School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness . A professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of …