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Tag: Cabot House
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Nation & World
Biography of a place
Harvard course asks students to write a history of the Radcliffe Quadrangle.
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Examining prison abolition — one volume at time
Cabot House book club wrestles with complex issue of prison abolition through discussions and “Reading Jam Sessions.”
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The House that will be home
On Housing Day, first-year students learn where they will spend their next years at Harvard, and the Houses are as varied as the residents who inhabit them.
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Three students in 3 countries share in the ‘Postcards From Here’ series
Jaidyn Probst ’23 of Redwood Falls, Minn., Maarten de Vries ’21 of Elten, Germany, and Luke Walker ’22 of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, share what life is like back home in the Postcard From Here series.
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Harbingers of Housing Day
The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.
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Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.
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Hitting the books after hitting a wall
Miguel Garcia ’17 found meaning and salvation in his humanities studies after a bout with mental illness forced him to take a sabbatical in his Junior year.
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Appetite for change
Tommy Tobin, set to graduate with degrees from the Law School and the Kennedy School, hopes to work on food policy.
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Hearty welcomes with a touch of rivalry
Every House is best: The Class of 2019 learns their housing fate.
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Q&A on changing House master title
In a question-and-answer session, two Harvard deans sat down with the Gazette late last week to talk about the impending change to the House master title that was announced at the Dec. 1 faculty meeting, and to give the thinking behind the switch.
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A skier switches mountains
When Elizabeth Strong ’15 came to Harvard, she was an athlete principally focused on competitive skiing. But gradually, she found a new passion in mechanical engineering.
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Nation & World
Dean Khurana’s freshman year
After his freshman year as College dean, Rakesh Khurana takes stock, and reinforces the importance of diversity.
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Nation & World
Rulan Chao Pian
Rulan Chao Pian was a true cosmopolitan, a woman who crossed boundaries with quiet courage and grace. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during a period when her father, the Chinese linguist and composer Yuen Ren Chao, taught at Harvard, she spent most of her childhood in various cities in China as well as in Paris, returning…
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A dream, ‘quietly imagined,’ come true
Rakesh Khurana became dean of Harvard College on July 1. On his first official day on the job, he reflected on the College’s power to transform undergraduates, and as a result to change society for the better.
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Research to lose sleep over
Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.
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Get up, it’s Housing Day
Freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, are sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses on Housing Day.
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Nation & World
The doings at Davos
Harvard experts convened to discuss the big issues and parties at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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Q&A with Rakesh Khurana
Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and co-master of Cabot House, will become dean of Harvard College on July 1. In a question-and-answer session, he discussed how his career and tenure as House co-master helped prepare him for the tasks ahead.
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Nation & World
New Harvard College dean
Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and co-master of Cabot House, has been named the new dean of Harvard College.
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Chasing the caffeine high
In opening Harvard’s first student-run coffee shop, Jesse Kaplan found startup success the old-fashioned way.
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Parting words
An Ethiopian classicist, a French explorer, and a New York policeman-turned-HKS student will speak at this year’s Morning Exercises on May 30.
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Houses become homes
With another Housing Day, Harvard’s freshmen learn where they’ll be living next year, as the Houses colorfully compete to show the most spirit.
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Nation & World
Architecture of experience
Harvard’s distinctive House system, a baker’s dozen of smaller communities, nurtures undergrads to find their passions, and themselves.
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Coming Home to Cabot House: Krystal Tung ’13
Find out why Cabot House resident Krystal Tung ’13 says that the place where she lives is also the place where she explores, creates, connects, and, above all, learns.
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A look inside: Cabot House
Cabot House is putting on a production of “The Wizard of Oz” on April 20-21 and 26-28.
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Nurturing the seeds of innovation
The bond between Harvard and Silicon Valley is a close one. The region is home to a powerful network of alumni willing to offer mentorship to students and recent graduates who are dreaming big. Taking advantage of that network, SEAS and HBS recently came together to organize the trip to Palo Alto.
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Order out of chaos
Freshmen, who spend their first year on campus in dormitories in Harvard Yard, were each sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses today.
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A look inside: Radcliffe Quad
Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses border the Quad, but mostly it belongs to Cabot House, which has residences on three of the four sides.
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A look inside: Cabot House
In Cabot House, a new café quickly becomes a familiar gathering place.
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A moving experience
As Hurricane Irene moved up the East Coast, residents of Currier House raced to move in before the storm arrived.
