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The College’s Strong Admissions Yield
… harvard College announced today that nearly 77 percent of students offered admission to the class of 2015 accepted—up from 75.5 percent last year. …
The '03 Scholars
… that is. Harvard boasted seven winners, one a double. The Marshall Scholars are seniors Christopher Laumann, a … Laumann '02 Eugenia Levenson '02 Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Below, are Canadian Rhodes winner and Harvard Medical …
Issue: March-April 2003
From the Archives: The Citizen’s Right to Know Is On the Line
… constitutional questions currently generating headlines in the national media—concerns about executive overreach, the balance of power between presidents and Congress, and access to … essential information. Finally, there’s the quality, enterprise, and courage of those who report for, edit, and control …
The President and the Professions
… University presidents, in general, find the machinations of medical schools arcane, strangely … In addition to making himself accessible to me as dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Neil has been willing to engage …
Pigskin Programs
… won seven college football national championships. Though the next decades featured strong teams and significant fan … mostly contained to the Northeast, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, collegiate football kicked off nationwide. Harvard squared up against—and …
Issue: November-December 2023
The War in Europe
… Ukraine has proved to be a different kind of emergency. Unlike Afghan scholars, for whom the threat is so dire that the only choice is to evacuate as … Unrue says, to remain in their own country or nearby. Some of them have joined the fighting; others have loved ones in …
Issue: January-February 2023
Notes on Doctoring
… a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was paged to the room of a delirious patient. The terminally ill man, agitated and … earl’s answer: “‘Absolutely.’” That exchange doesn’t surprise O’Keefe, who remembers Stanley as ardently immersed in …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Emergent Mind
… What goes on in the minds of babies? A lot, it turns out: long gone are the … the screen longer. The team says this shows babies were surprised by choices of objects that had previously required …
Issue: March-April 2018
Prediction and Prevention
… disease, but clinical researchers are already using other kinds of information about their patients to guide their treatment. Cobb professor of psychiatry Matcheri Keshavan, who is based at …
Issue: July-August 2017
At Large on the Blue Frontier
… is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often makes all the difference. When … embraces up to 80 percent of all species on Earth, and comprises nearly as much of the planet's available living space. …
Issue: July-August 2003
Playing Offense
… president again, launched a sweeping attack on any hint of diversity and equity within federal reach. Two months later, as this is written, it’s clear that the administration is pursuing a multifront assault on … not existential, for places like Columbia. (American Enterprise Institute polemicist Max Eden in December called …
Issue: May-June 2025
Report to the Alumni
… Emeritus Kennedy School. Graduate English Oration. The Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. The departing president … The task that awaits us now is to help the University rise again to the challenges it faces so that we can succeed …
The Endowment Ebbs
… The University’s endowment was valued at $35.7 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016—a decrease of $1.9 billion (5.1 percent) … the 5.4 percentage-point margin in fiscal 2016, the gap rises to nearly $2 billion: closing in on $100 million of …
Issue: November-December 2016
On the Road with Death
… In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, … family in a rented Toyota Tercel on a two-lane highway in the interior of the Dominican Republic when an on-coming … list of leading causes of disability, but are projected to rise to third place by 2020 as the number of motor vehicles …
Issue: November-December 2002
Latin Salutatory: “Campus of Dreams”
… English translaton follows... Praeses Aestive, Decani, Professores, vos qui geritis et exercitis nostros manipulos … et cum "Thwacko!" digno Magni Mannii, quam cel- errime profecti sumus. Cum primum Bostoniam, domum Soccorum Rubrorum … cheered us on in numbers that must equal those at Fenway; mothers and fathers, our number one fans, you who have …