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The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
… At a time when less than 50 percent of Americans grow up to earn more than their parents, how can higher education help move the … skill set, your job is less likely to be replaced by machines and will be a path to better mobility.” The …
The “Ring of Truth”
… If the audience decides to clap, R.J. Tarrant was telling one of the student Commencement speakers last week, during their … became untenable as the number of applications continued to rise. This year, the committee received submissions from 130 …
Yesterday's News
… 1921 As of January 1, Harvard Yard is closed to automobiles, on the grounds that traffic is dangerous on such narrow roads … students about factual issues. Undergraduate tuition will rise from $2,600 to $2,800 per year in 1971-72--the third …
Behind the Curtain of A.R.T.’s “Evita”
… ballgown suspends in midair, center stage above a field of white flowers at the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T) revival of the … of a complex political figure who had an extraordinary rise and an extraordinary fall—and I would add the word …
The End of Spontaneity
… Despite its well-constructed façade of serenity—the muted light streaming through yellow curtains, the … up and spin me around so that we’re both laughing with surprise and childish glee. And so Houseparty has been …
Finding the Descendants of Enslavement
… “This work is doable. The family structures of the Harvard-affiliated slaves may … establish a political structure that would later give rise to apartheid). Later, answering an audience member’s …
An Engine of Ingenuity
… I became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, I am struck by the remarkable role that engineering and technology have … unveiled its newest gadget—the iPhone—and ushered in an age of extraordinary communication and unprecedented … the pace of change on a global scale. Nowhere is the rise of engineering and the applied sciences more evident to …
Issue: September-October 2017
“Chorus of Soloists”
… months have brought so many reasons to worry about China’s rise: rapidly expanding military capabilities, an … with regional neighbors, and a new leadership that as one of its first acts pledged to fight the “perils” of constitutionalism, civil society, and …
Issue: July-August 2014
Early Admissions Rise
… The College announced today that 992 applicants from a pool … 4,692 had been granted early-action admission to the class of 2018, entering next autumn. In 2012, early-action … early admissions increase … 1508 … 1510 … Early Admissions Rise … article …
The Future of Teaching
… two and a half pandemic semesters, instruction throughout the University first pivoted online, and then, after the summer of 2020, evolved into more sophisticated, engaging forms of Zoom-based teaching and some hybrid classes at the …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Changing of the (Financial) Guard
… a major transition in Harvard’s senior financial personnel; their record and the context for the changes are discussed … below. Finnegan remains a Corporation member, and a member of the board of directors of Harvard Management Company (where the …
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker
… The basketball player, writer, and activist Kareem … featured Class Day speaker,” Uzma Issa ’25, first marshal of the 2025 Class Committee, said in a news announcement. “He’s a champion in every sense of the word—celebrated both for his extraordinary …
Sciences Still Young
… for economics, sociology, and political science in the work of Plato and Aristotle, but truthfully, the social … for State and Local Government. … Better data, the rise of real experiments, and interdisciplinary advances in …
Issue: September-October 2011
A Higher Degree of Responsibility
… economic inequality, climate change, and riven politics, the role of capitalist enterprise has come into question—at least when defined solely in …
Issue: March-April 2023
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
… Microbes thrive everywhere, from gardens and kitchens to the harshest environments on the planet: under polar ice, in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the sea, in hot springs that spew acid. A single gram of … In fact, microbes have written it, forming rocks and giving rise to the oxygen in the atmosphere, and underpinning many …
Issue: September-October 2017