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President Faust?
The Crimson went live at 11:57 p.m. on February 8 with a web report that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be Harvard’s twenty-eighth president ( www.thecrimson.com ). A Board of Overseers meeting is being …
Presidents Xi and Faust Confer in China
President Drew Faust, visiting Beijing for a "Your Harvard" event and other University business, met on Monday night with People's Republic president Xi Jinping. The meeting, Faust's invitation to Xi to visit Harvard, and her planned address at Tsinghua …
America’s Riven Politics
Evan Osnos ’98, who reported on a changing People’s Republic of China for The New Yorker , was struck by the changes in the United States when he returned home to begin reporting for the magazine from Washington, D.C. In 2021, he published Wildland: …
How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
Thirty or 40 years ago, companies like General Motors and Chase Manhattan Bank hired their own janitors and clerical staff, not just top executives and engineers. Today, low-skilled jobs are often outsourced, with effects that are rippling across the …
Issue: July-August 2017
New Schedule, New Math
At its regularly scheduled meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS): adopted a new, uniform schedule for classes, beginning in 2018, anticipating the expansion of the campus across the Charles River in 2020; discussed undergraduates’ …
Five Questions with George Cooper ’25 on Student-Musicians
George Cooper ’25, a Mather House music concentrator originally from Los Angeles, is captain of the Harvard men’s baseball team, where he plays infielder/outfielder. To date, Cooper has played in 107 baseball games for the Crimson, batting .303 while …
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
Derek C. Bok , Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991 and again on an interim basis during the 2006-2007 academic year, faced the challenge of helping the University recover from the shattering Vietnam-era crisis that divided the campus and threatened the …
Issue: March-April 2024
David M. Rubenstein to Join Harvard Corporation
The University announced today that David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, the private-equity and investment-management firm , will join the Harvard Corporation in July 2017. Although Rubenstein is an alumnus of Duke (where he …
Chapter & Verse
David Azzolina writes: “Psychotherapist Alfred Adler is quoted as having said, ‘The only normal people are people you don’t know well enough yet,’ or words to that effect. I have not been able to verify that quote with a legitimate source. I even wrote …
Issue: March-April 2015
“To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind”
A joyous occasion was also a somber one today, as eight ROTC graduates were commissioned into the United States armed forces. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer and principal military adviser to the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“One of my small, goofy, weird joys is to get a very, very local newspaper from a small town, like my hometown, and read the police blotter,” says best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You , Celeste Ng ’02. “ Mr. …
Issue: November-December 2022
Note to Readers
Lydialyle Gibson joined the masthead last autumn as a writer and editor. One of the features she wrote for the University of Chicago’s magazine, her prior perch, has justly been recognized as the best alumni-magazine article of 2015—the highest accolade …
Issue: September-October 2016
“What Happened to the Dream?”
Rolling back abortion rights, ending affirmative action, and threatening democratic processes: sometimes, says former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 , she feels like “forward progress in the world has stopped yet again.” On Wednesday …
Back on Top
As so often happens, The Game came down to the end. This time for Harvard it was a bitter one. On a blustery day at Yale Bowl, the Crimson had come from behind to take an 18-17 fourth-quarter lead, then saw Yale go back ahead 23-18. Now Harvard had …
Issue: January-February 2024
Ban Ki-Moon HKS Class Day Speech
As prepared for delivery: Thank you for your warm introduction. Dr. Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, distinguished professors of Harvard Kennedy School, dear Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2023, dear family members, friends, ladies and …