Elliott Detjen
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Elliott Detjen
@ElliottDetjen
Classics/Gov @harvard, President @harvardrepclub. SLC






The Harvard History department's undergraduate course list in 1949-50 (top images). Compare with every course offered by the Harvard History department in Spring 2026 (bottom images).



After nearly three years of quiet meetings, Harvard College’s Intellectual Vitality Initiative has finally gone public. @mnamponsah and @joycekim324 report. thecrimson.com/article/2024/2…





Harvard University enrolled a record number of international students in the current academic year, even as the Trump administration sought repeatedly to curb student visas and funding for the Ivy League school bloomberg.com/news/articles/…



Tuesday, September 30th, 2025



90 million, maybe 100 million, foreigners in the USA today. That’s about 87 to 97 million too many. (Some tourists and a few extraordinary abilities are OK) Illegal immigration is the worst, but “legal immigration” has gotten way out of hand too, by orders of magnitude.


Today the results are clear. Fewer than 15% of Harvard's c/o 2027 student body are straight, white, & male. Last year, the school offered remedial math for the first time in history. Performance has become participation—79% of grades were in the A range. 7/9

















