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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 …
The Undergraduate Through the Years
… This magazine's "Undergraduate" column provides snapshots of contemporary student life. Some columns capture a moment in time; others demonstrate how the more things change, the more they … celebrates its 375th anniversary, we bring you a selection of columns from the last 25 years. In 1986, Claudia Polsky …
Issue: September-October 2011
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 Table Is Set
… For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred relics: the …
Issue: November-December 2001
Taking the Plunge
… M cArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson, a leading voice on climate change, teaches “Reimagining Capitalism” at the Business School: an immersion in “business and big … has synthesized her ideas about the role of private enterprises in solving them (in their own interest), in …
Issue: May-June 2020
A Taste of Judy Budnitz
… Read an excerpt from "Nadia" by Judy Budnitz, who was profiled by Eliza Wilmerding in the March-April 2007 issue of Harvard Magazine. Our friend Joel got one of those …
Issue: March-April 2007
Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage
… Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try … and the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion of 1807. "We were very surprised by how serious the students were about [the class]," …
Issue: September-October 2002
Widening the College Pipeline
… college.” A visiting admissions recruiter told her about The Posse Foundation, an unusual college-access and … top-tier institutions within supportive groups—posses—of like-minded peers. The selection process is rigorous (typically fewer than 5 percent of the applicants are chosen) and uses a “dynamic …
Issue: July-August 2017
Your Brain on Exercise
… that people who exercise are at greatly reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Lab work in mice has shown that they also grow more new neurons that are involved in … human irisin is identical, and blood levels of the hormone rise in both in response to endurance exercise. Wrann was a …
Issue: January-February 2022
Genius at the School Gates
… Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality of silliness that predominates in them—the frothy, the … to avoid association with the more frivolous writers of her sex. “Gender issues have plagued the arts from time …
A World of Literature
… The résumé of Harvard’s Bernbaum professor of comparative literature might create the … taking classes and concentrating in literature has risen modestly, bucking the trend across the humanities: …
Issue: September-October 2019
Financial Fitness
… Harvard’s financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, released in October, … and Harvard’s leaders have now accomplished a full decade of Crimson black ink. Harvard Management Company (HMC), … the endowment assets, realized a net 2.9 percent rate of return, improving upon the negative 1.8 percent return in …
Issue: January-February 2024
Letters from Readers
… page 42) with a friend and fellow Harvard graduate (class of 2003). We thought Keohane nicely described the tension between the life of action and the need for … from Elizabeth Gudrais’s discussion of The End of Big ( “Rise of the Little Guy,” September-October, page 13), author …
Issue: November-December 2013
On the Team
… Making the cut for the New England Patriots' cheerleading squad is … competed when the group last held tryouts. Now she is one of the youngest of the 35-woman team. De Santis had no plans to follow the …
Mapping Cultural Change
… The U.S. Census gathers a wealth of demographic data, … when they don’t agree with the viewpoint of the speaker—has risen steadily for most of the survey term, but that trend …
Issue: November-December 2012