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The College's Course of Study
… The College's Course of Study Harvard undergraduates' course … the concentration requirements, which for honors work had risen in some departments to as many as half of the 32 … concentration requirements to pile up" as subdisciplines arise. "But the other part of our mission is to be critical," …
Phi Beta Kappa Speakers Don’t Shrink from the News
… during a standing ovation for President Alan M. Garber. At the top of his oration, Rakesh Khurana, the Danoff dean of Harvard … “legitimacy crisis” and the real problems that give rise to it. “As we stand up for our principles, we also need …
A Visit from Bill Gates
… Harvard students got a thrill on Thursday when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, came to campus. After touring the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … flat. Meanwhile, pension and healthcare costs continue to rise, putting pressure on other parts of state budgets. That …
Curator of American Culture
… On the eve of Election Day last fall, Vanity Fair … scoffed at her fashion sense. “I was perhaps surprised by the surprise, because I had worked in magazines for a long time,” …
Issue: March-April 2021
The Rawlsian Revolution
… students and graduates will remember his 1971 work A Theory of Justice, mandatory reading in Bass professor of … to neoliberalism, the loose concept that describes the rise of privatization, austerity, and deregulation all over …
Issue: September-October 2019
“Attacking the Concept of Debt”
… were being withdrawn directly from his bank account. If the balance was short—for instance, if Jones hadn’t managed … “It was stressing me the hell out.” Along with millions of other Americans, Jones had fallen prey to the for-profit … not be able to repay their debts. Federal student loans comprise most of the income of these proprietary colleges; from …
The Downsides of Prozac
… Like many others, Elizabeth Wurtzel '89 and Lauren Slater, Ed. M. '89--the authors, respectively, of Prozac Nation (1994) and Prozac Diary (1998)--suffered … "Prozac poop-out": the drug's mood-altering effects wore off and depression returned. In fact, according to a 1995 …
“The Wise Person Learns from All People”
… seniors, President Lawrence S. Bacow recalled that in the fall of 2019, he had told this class at their freshman convocation that “Anyone who is thinking of the next four years as a series of stepping stones to a …
Past the Peak
… Nearly 50 years after declaring their independence, Americans were electrified by the triumphant return of the Marquis de Lafayette, eager to revisit the scenes of … was itself enslaved. The story of the commonwealth’s rise, fall, and subsequent rise again offers a helpful …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Extinction of the Press?
… When America’s Founders drafted the First Amendment, including its protection of a free press as key to self-governance, they could not … necessary for democracy.” “There’s only one private enterprise that is mentioned in the United States Constitution and …
Issue: July-August 2020
Coastal Banks Shed Risky Mortgages—Putting the Financial System at Risk
… Warming oceans—and the storms and rising sea levels they bring—will have their most severe impact on the southeastern shoreline of the United States, from the Texas Gulf Coast up to the … and Jesse Keenan on how lenders are preparing for sea level rise in coastal regions of the American South—a reaction …
The Rebellion of E.E. Cummings
… Literary critics have found any number of ways to divide writers into opposing teams. Isaiah Berlin … to look at American literature as a combat between aesthetic "palefaces" like Henry James and vigorous "redskins" … The readers who delighted in such poems might have been surprised to learn that, in fact, Edward Estlin Cummings came …
Issue: March-April 2005
Sharing the Wealth
… Distributions from the endowment now make up the largest source of Harvard’s operating revenues: $855 million, or 31 percent … fiscal years 2008 through 2010. The base distribution would rise 4 percent annually; the incremental distribution would …
Issue: March-April 2006
Artificial Intelligence in the Academy
… How is artificial intelligence reshaping the notion of original scholarship? How are faculty using … students from his course, General Education 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative …
The Work of Art
… Late into the last evening of a sprawling two-day conference on art … and race and culture and citizenship—and on the possibility of achieving justice—artist Hank Willis Thomas turned to the …