Tag: Eliot House

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    ‘One of the best traditions of all time’

    First-years are welcomed to their new homes with traditional displays of House pride.

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    Dunster House members march toward Matthews Hall.
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    Random roommates turned best friends

    Harvard students who’ve entered housing lottery solo have a reassuring message for first-years: You just might find your best friend.

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    Aeden Marcus and Al Bilski.
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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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    Kirkland House is reflected in the windows of Winthrop House.
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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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    All twelve House mascots are pictured in costume striking a pose.
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    The way we live now

    One Harvard student describes what life is like on a deserted campus while another shares his experience going home and the adjustments the followed.

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    Student walking with Remy the cat.
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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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    A hot idea for conserving energy

    Aldís Elfarsdóttir ’18 didn’t like the energy-wasting implications of cracking the window to lower the temperature in her Eliot House room. So she and two recent grads have launched a temperature data-gathering project to help the House conserve wasted energy.

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    Advice for ‘the opposite of underdogs’

    Between the laughs, actress and writer Rashida Jones ’97 counsels the Class of 2016 to break some rules, speak up, and choose love during the annual Class Day.

    7 minutes
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    Float like a butterfly, work like a bee

    To give back, extracurricular whirlwind Jesus Moran ’16 will teach in an urban school next fall.

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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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    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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    On the water and in the Air Force

    All-American Crimson rower Courtney Diekema, a graduating senior, is hoping for a spot on the under-23 U.S. women’s crew and perhaps in the Olympics, even as she gets ready for duty as a lieutenant in Air Force intelligence.

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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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    Odes to joy

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

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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.

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    A look inside: Eliot House

    At Eliot House, the river House named for Harvard’s longest-serving president, crew is king.

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    A look inside: Eliot House

    In Eliot House, interested students flock to a basement woodshop to construct tables, boxes, or chairs, to turn vases or bowls, or to create other works.

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    ‘E Pluribus Domus’

    The Eliot House Grille — affectionately named the “Inferno” for, among other reasons, its basement location — has never been hotter. Thanks to recent enhancements, which include comfy leather couches and chairs, a boss sound system, and improved lighting, the beloved social space is welcoming more students and serving up more fun and snacks.

    5 minutes
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    375th party under the umbrellas

    Harvard writers and photographers ventured to all corners of the campus and captured the University’s 375th anniversary celebration.

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    Two named University Professors

    Rebecca M. Henderson of the Harvard Business School and Douglas Melton of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Medical School were named University Professors in recognition of their dedication to teaching and scholarship that crosses academic boundaries.

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    Eliot House

    Milling about the “Great Court” at Eliot House, students greeted old friends from last semester and new sophomores with enthusiasm. Games such as Frisbee broke out, and a few brave souls, including sophomore Kris Liu and junior Leah Reis-Dennis, sang or performed for their housemates.

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    A look inside: Eliot House

    Named in honor of Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, Eliot House was opened in 1931. It was one of the original seven Houses at the College following the plan by Eliot’s successor, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, to “revitalize education and revive egalitarianism at Harvard College.”

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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…

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    Racing to find her passion

    Setbacks in her ski racing career set Marguerite Thorp on the path to serving her passion for global health and social justice.

    4 minutes
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    PBK inducts Class of 2012 members

    The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, will induct 24 juniors at a formal ceremony at Leverett House on April 25.

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    A sort of homecoming

    On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.

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    Learning to listen

    About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.

    5 minutes
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    48 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa

    Forty-eight seniors were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.

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    House masters appointed

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, announced the appointment of three House masters: Douglas Melton, Christie McDonald, and Rakesh Khurana.

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    A church rises again

    Harvard undergrads on Alternative Spring Break learn construction techniques while helping to complete a rebuilt Alabama church.

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