Tag: Dudley House

  • Nation & World

    The jive on java

    A field guide to the coffee joints in Harvard Square.

    10 minutes
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    Taking the stairs

    Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.

    3 minutes
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    Ministry of friendship

    On most days, around noon, Richard Griffin ’51 makes his way from the Malkin Athletic Center to the café at Dudley House. Griffin was once a Jesuit priest, and Harvard’s Roman Catholic chaplain during the tumultuous years 1968 to 1975, a time of campus antiwar protests and social upheaval.

    1 minute
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    Collectively unique

    The Dudley Co-op is a collective of individuals. “Each semester a new crop of students introduces different habits, preferences, and policies to the co-op,” explains Amelia Kaplan ’97.

    5 minutes
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    Inside the Dudley House Co-op

    The Dudley Co-op is Harvard’s sole on-campus alternative to the traditional House system. Thirty-two undergraduates live in a pair of Victorian houses nestled in a residential neighborhood just outside Harvard Square.

    3 minutes
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    Halloween on the move

    Approximately 30 runners, some in Halloween gear, gathered for the free Harvard On The Move run, which leaves from the steps of the MAC at 5:15 p.m. Wednesdays.

    2 minutes
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    Odes to joy

    Harvard Gazette staff writers covered the campus to capture snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day.

    16 minutes
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    Architecture of experience

    Harvard’s distinctive House system, a baker’s dozen of smaller communities, nurtures undergrads to find their passions, and themselves.

    17 minutes
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    Arts prove intensive

    Across campus, students participated in a series of arts intensives during January’s Wintersession that let them tap their creative talents.

    9 minutes
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    A gala for Dudley at 20

    Dudley House, thriving and lively at age 20, is the “Mother House” model for Ivy League grad school centers.

    8 minutes
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    Moments that make Commencement

    After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…

    11 minutes
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    All creatures great and small

    Viewing all life as interconnected, Australian equine specialist Mark Schembri will use his degree from the Harvard School of Public Health to help humans and animals live healthier.

    4 minutes
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    Beyond the lab and library

    Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a winter break grab bag of seminars, workshops, and recreational activities designed to help its students recharge and build skills.

    4 minutes
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    Keeping students in the loop

    Getting Harvard graduate students to connect with each other and the vibrant offerings at Dudley House keeps its longtime administrator Susan Zawalich, a tap dancer with a love for Godzilla and toys, busy.

    4 minutes
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    Fifty years of free-spirited living

    In September 1958, Harvard College senior Alfred Hurd moved to 3 Sacramento St., an old Victorian mansion the University had bought less than a year before. The rambling three-story house — with its interior of arched doorways, stained-glass windows, and tiled fireplaces — was the locus of an experiment: Harvard’s first cooperative housing dormitory.

    6 minutes
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    Newsmakers

    Kargère awarded advising award The Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council recently awarded Lecturer on History and Literature Stephen Kargère the 2007 John R. Marquand Award for exceptional advising and counseling for a faculty member. Now in its sixth year, the prize — honoring legendary Dudley House senior tutor John H. Marquand — is…

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