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...earlier version of the May 24 news article "Faust Urges Global Health Focus at Harvard" incorrectly identified Professor Paul E. Farmer as Paul J. Farmer...
...earlier version of the May 24 news article "Study: Colleges Caused Financial Crisis" stated that in the 2009 fiscal year, Harvard’s endowment decreased by about 11 million dollars. In fact, the endowment decreased by about 11 billion dollars...
...Akash Maharaj was accepted as a transfer student to Yale with perfect As in the 18 courses on his Columbia transcript and an extremely positive recommendation from a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures. The problem was, as the Yale Daily News points out, "none of it was true." He was later convicted of stealing $31,000 in scholarships from Yale...
...Patrick McDermit was admitted to Yale "under the fictitious alter-ego of a 23-year-old Shumash-Jewish multi-millionaire named Andreas Alrea." As he told the Yale Daily News shortly after his expulsion from Yale in 1977, "the sum of what I told them and what I sent them was so fantastic that they couldn’t fail to believe...
...class of 2010's freshman year was dominated by news stories about the search for a new Harvard President following the resignation of Larry Summers in February 2006. In February 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust was unanimously confirmed as Harvard’s first female president...