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A Thumb on the Scale
… funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of $60,000 or less, the College estimated that 73.9 percent of matriculants came … in our study told us that he was not at all surprised by the finding that admissions at these highly …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Speeches 2022
… “Save a Seat for Others” During his welcoming remarks at the 371st … very inconvenient happens when you combine a nation’s worth of graduations with a global supply-chain shortage. There … life. Take advantage of these opportunities when they arise. Whatever you do with your Harvard education, please be …
Issue: July-August 2022
At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’ s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … that Sesame Street stemmed from Harvard—but I’m not surprised. In the late 1960s, Sesame Street co-founders Lloyd …
Expanding the Professoriate
… Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is …
Tighter Times
… Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year … for FAS. Now that distributions from the endowment will rise only a percent or two for the foreseeable future, …
Issue: January-February 2003
Altering Course
… Of the nearly 100 quadrillion British thermal units of energy (BTUs) used each year in the United …
Issue: May-June 2015
Prenatal Competition?
… Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 … plants and mammalian pregnancies, genetic conflict arises from the competing interests of maternal and paternal …
Issue: September-October 2006
Academic Freedom—for All
… letter criticizing President Claudine Gay’s condemnation of the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” and … advisory committee, but to address the simultaneous rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment. “We all …
The Food Waste Problem
… For one of the world’s leading experts on food waste, visiting a … Stepping into her local Whole Foods, clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib notices something awry in … rising, in face of persistent hunger and worsening climate crises. In September 2015, the United States declared its …
Issue: November-December 2021
Misguided Mind Fixers
… The rapid rise of biological psychiatry assured that, … bound to overreach. It did so spectacularly, argues Ford professor of the history of science Anne Harrington, as …
Issue: May-June 2019
Off the Shelf
… The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping … thúy (Knopf, $18). A heralded debut novel portrays the life of a Vietnamese family in America, as seen through the eyes …
Issue: May-June 2003
Orchestrating Attention: “The Most Substantive Work You Can Do”
… to thinking, found her usual refuge, Oakland’s Morcom Amphitheatre of Roses, closed. Instead, as she told viewers tuning into the Graduate School of Design’s online Class Day ceremonies, she began walking …
The Bottomless Sport
… The immaculate courts of Wimbledon are sown from perennial … in Zambia, Andrew Rueb ’95, M.Div. ’04, played on a surface of cow dung and molasses. “Actually, the courts played fine,” he explains. The problem was that …
Issue: May-June 2021
Harvard Nears Selection of Allston Development Partner
… The Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC), charged with developing the University’s “enterprise research campus” (ERC) commercial area in Allston, has narrowed the field of candidates for development of that 14-acre parcel off …
S-e-c-s Talk
… different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!, a profile of the editor of the National Enquirer, class of '79. … and proofreading for the class reports, unaided by copying machines, word processors, or computerized files. Pressure …