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Harvard College Admits Class of 2027
… H arvard College today offered regular admission to 1,220 applicants to the class of 2027; combined with the 722 early-action applicants …
A Fiscal Faustian Bargain
… The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. … the U.K. This suggests that foreign investment should have risen in 2013. In fact, it fell by £900 million. More …
Issue: July-August 2015
Does Money Matter?
… These days , super PACs (political action committees) don’t … support from one, while his money-flush rivals dropped off one after another. Jeb Bush fizzled out in February when the $100 million spent by his Right to Rise super PAC failed to generate liftoff. Marco Rubio threw …
Issue: July-August 2016
Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students
… Judge Learned Hand recalled that his Harvard Law School professors taught him the Spartan ethic which helped make him a legal giant. “In the universe of truth,” he said in 1958, during a public lecture, “they …
Issue: January-February 2021
Publishing “The Harvard Advocate” Despite the Pandemic
… The Harvard Advocate , a venerable publication now 154 years … old, has published writers who have gone on to form much of the American literature we know in the twentieth century: … to this new reality on the fly. “With the sudden transition off-campus in March, members of the magazine found …
Lady Godiva: The Naked Truth
… Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. …
Issue: July-August 2003
Off the Shelf
… Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals, by William … suicide in 1920 led administrators to identify a group of gay or presumed gay undergraduates. A secret court of …
Issue: November-December 2005
President Bacow on Harvard in the Months Ahead
… have been expected to take a year-end victory lap on behalf of Harvard—students had a successful semester of in-person learning, faculty members conducted their research—President Lawrence S. Bacow found himself … the American Repertory Theater and the commercial enterprise research campus (including a University-funded, …
All in a Day: Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy
… The best route to Hull is by boat. As the MBTA’s commuter … passengers can eye the treacherous shipping route that gave rise to the town’s Point Allerton Lifesaving Station in … community had no more than 300 residents; at least a third of them were involved in volunteer lifesaving,” notes …
Issue: September-October 2015
An Engine of Class Mobility
… for Harvard may sound strangely unambitious or askew from the University’s main ambitions, perhaps because I am loading onto the institution many of the concerns and hopes I have for the United States as a … in general—and Harvard is by far the best known of them—in developing America’s strengths, appeal, and …
Issue: September-October 2011
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
… The Harvard Art Museums have received 330 … to the museum, the finest private collection of such images anywhere—from George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57. … Harvard and the Boston area as a top site for the study of Dutch art outside Europe. Almost exactly 25 years ago, …
The Pragmatist
… university , Lawrence S. Bacow famously invited members of the community to join him on early-morning runs: a chance to … obviously also apply to operating long-established enterprises that meld together research, professional training, …
Issue: September-October 2018
Five Medal of Freedom Honorands
… President Barack Obama J.D.’91 conferred the Medal of Freedom on 16 people at a White House ceremony … as he continued to fight brain cancer and mourned the death of his sister Eunice Shriver; his Harvard honorary degree …
Minding the Gap
… Abigail Thernstrom , a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Financial Fallout
… In the fall of 2008, as banks and markets collapsed, Harvard … in Washington (and around the world) may offset the crises more swiftly and effectively than can be forecast. … impaired, students’ needs for support may be expected to rise, for the duration of any recession. Within the College, …