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...this process, the University has become both a more national and a more international institution. The Harvard of the 1950s was still largely male, white, with an undergraduate student body dominated by alumni sons—many from private schools and from the East. Many of them were, of course, very fine—but quite a number were not, and there was a bit too much homogeneity. In this respect, there has been a revolution, instigated especially by Presidents Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, and carried out by all those in charge of admissions. The triumph...
Selected by the Harvard Alumni Association to deliver the day’s Commencement address, the acclaimed author of the popular “Harry Potter” series will also receive an honorary degree from the University...
...touched,” but quipped that he could only accept the honor on the condition that he would not be asked to donate as an alum—an unhappy circumstance that he said he has encountered after receiving honorary membership from several other classes at various alumni events.“You sniffed us out on that one,” said Tennant before presenting Summers with a Class of 2008 sweatshirt and a set of 2008 liquor glasses.While his remarks were short, Summers seemed to enjoy his celebrity, spending several minutes after the event greeting well-wishers...
It’s sales pitch season here in Cambridge. As our well-heeled alumni, parents, and combinations thereof converge on campus for Commencement week, Harvard is back to pulling out all the stops...
...This University is damned good at marketing itself to its alumni and to the world. Graduates give generously, comforted by the knowledge that their gifts support the work of the world’s greatest university, whose triumphs make the realities of Harvard College easy to gloss over. Recent events suggest that this university is failing to make the one sales pitch that its history and its future demand the most—to its own undergraduates