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Harvard Cancelled Affinity Celebrations. Students Held Them Anyway.
… “There’s no class I would rather be addressing than you all,” … Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the 1619 Project, to the hundreds of students and families gathered in a conference room at …
The Chinese in America
… In the fall of 2016, writes Michael Luo ’98, “I was standing in the rain with my family and some friends, in front of a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side,” when a … history of earlier, often dismaying, confrontations and crises could not be more important. From the introduction, …
Issue: May-June 2025
For the Homies
… his poetry beginning in a room with his three younger brothers. If, after hearing his poetry, his siblings respect … that the work will echo and resonate beyond them.” Promises of Gold , released this spring, is already resonating beyond … at least my parents.” Even though Olivarez’s poetry arises in the imagined space with his brothers, and even …
Issue: July-August 2023
Ruth Simmons’s Convocation Speech at the Graduate School of Education
… afternoon to all who today mark this important moment in these graduates’ lives. I begin on this auspicious occasion … in their aspirations and endeavors: faculty and staff of this esteemed institution; family, friends and mentors; … and fulfilling life.What new tragedy, they must ask, will arise tomorrow to unsettle further their future?What old …
The Harvard Club of Boston Turns 100
… The Harvard Club of Boston, founded “to give effective expression to the Harvard spirit,” kicked off its centennial celebration with a rousing New Year’s Day …
Issue: March-April 2008
College Admits 7.5 Percent of Early Applicants
… Today , 722 of 9,553 early-action applicants were admitted to the College class of 2027. This 7.5 percent acceptance rate … which lower-income families qualify. African Americans comprised 14.4 percent of the class (up from 13.9 percent last …
Off the Shelf
… This learned, brilliantly written account explains how the European avant-garde came to captivate the American elite—as now embodied in that “hegemonic empire of art and money,” the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a … “10 dangerous trends” from “the mother of all debt crises” and the demographic time bomb (aging) to the “coming …
Issue: November-December 2022
Five Questions with Audrey Chang ’25 of the Harvard Responsible Computing Club
… with a secondary degree in sociology. Chang is a member of the Harvard Responsible Computing Collective , a student club which aims to promote responsible use of technology in society. What is the Harvard Responsible …
Focus on Finances
… During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024—a year of campus tumult, … circumstances. Revenues and expenses both continued to rise, again yielding an operating surplus (extending a …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2025
The Music of Birds... and Whales
… In 2000, David Rothenberg ’84 arrived at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh at … settled in to “jam with the birds.” It was the first of many sessions there, and others abroad—from Estonia to Australia, where he played in a sanctuary with “one of the shyest yet grandest singers in the world, the …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Student Commencement Speakers
… The 372nd Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 25, will … taught science and math. From his aptly-named hometown of Athens, Georgia, Meadows improved his Latin, winning … exactly how they function: “I think they’re really nifty machines that can do amazing chemistry." When Chou applied …
Celebrating Integrity
… Address on May 27, President Alan M. Garber focused on the undergraduate experience, rather than events occurring outside the gates of Harvard Yard. He told the graduating seniors about his … It was built on this exact beautiful vision that humanity rises and falls as one. When I met my 77 classmates from 32 …
Issue: July-August 2025
Reinforcing Harvard’s Finances
… Just after placing $434 million of tax-exempt bonds to pay for capital projects , Harvard is returning to the market to borrow $750 million of taxable debt, fueling speculation about its uses for the …
A Bioethics View of Brain Organoids
… Bioethicist Insoo Hyun has spent a lot of time thinking about brain organoids over the past several years. A frequent collaborator of Paola … their armchairs wouldn’t necessarily come up with.” They arise from the everyday churn of laboratory science, and …
Against “Indifference”
… Lawrence S. Bacow spoke upon occasion about his mother, Ruth Wertheim—the only Jewish resident transported from her hometown of Londorf, Germany, to Auschwitz who survived the Nazi … why he had never been able to bring himself to visit one of the camps—until this past January, after the University …
Issue: May-June 2025