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All twelve House mascots are pictured in costume striking a pose.

Harbingers of Housing Day

A Who's Who of the Big 12 — mascots, that is

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DateApril 8, 2020April 9, 2020

Student walking with Remy the cat.

The way we live now

One College student adjusts to life on a deserted campus and another to being unexpectedly home a continent away

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DateApril 7, 2020April 8, 2020

Blades of glory

Just in time for the Head of the Charles, a definitive guide to the 19 designs on oars of University teams and clubs

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DateOctober 17, 2019November 7, 2019

Patrick Kuiper, M.E. ’16 (from left), Patrick Day, S.M. '16, and Aldís Elfarsdóttir ’18 created a sensor that can gather data on heat and humidity. The goal is to lower Eliot House's energy use this winter.

A hot idea for conserving energy

Student’s project would put Eliot students in the room that’s not too hot, not too cold, but just right for them

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DateSeptember 29, 2016October 3, 2016

Rashida Jones '97 (photo 1) spoke at the Class Day Exercises. Students and their families gathered in Tercentenary Theatre (photo 2). Student awards were also presented, including the Ames Award. Andrea Ortiz '16 (from left, photo 3) presented the award to Allison Torsiglieri '16 and Gabrielle Milner '16, with the help of Jennifer Jia-Hong Liu '16.

Advice for ‘the opposite of underdogs’

Amid the humor, Class Day speaker Rashida Jones tells graduates: ‘Don’t count on the system; protect your instinct to care; and choose love’

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DateMay 25, 2016March 5, 2019

Float like a butterfly, work like a bee

An extracurricular whirlwind, Jesus Moran ’16 plans to give back as a teacher

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DateMay 10, 2016

Adams House residents announce their presence to freshmen inside Holworthy Hall. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

Hearty welcomes with a touch of rivalry

Housing Day puts students, faculty in a celebratory mood

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DateMarch 10, 2016April 17, 2019

Housing Day intensity begins at Adams House with this spirited charge on the Yard. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer

Get up, it’s Housing Day

Freshmen learn where they’ll live, and the celebrations begin

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DateMarch 13, 2014February 22, 2019

On the water and in the Air Force

Crew star works toward Olympic berth, as she gets ready to enter military

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DateMay 30, 2013July 9, 2019

Kirkland House students defend the John Harvard Statue, which they were up earliest to claim on Housing Day. Freshmen, who spend their first year on campus in dormitories in Harvard Yard, were sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 Houses on March 14.

Houses become homes

Freshmen celebrate getting living assignments

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DateMarch 14, 2013February 28, 2019

As is custom, the graduating seniors marched into the Yard and the Memorial Church for one of the first official events of the day, morning services. The students filled the church to capacity.

Odes to joy

Snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day

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DateMay 24, 2012

Former Quincy House resident Tuan Ho '09 was going to be a doctor but then invented Tivli, a way to stream TV programming over a broadband Internet connection. Med school would wait, to Ho's parents' chagrin. Luckily, Quincy House Masters Lee and Deb Gehrke had run into this situation before, as had the House’s business and pre-med tutors. Along with friends and classmates, the Quincy advisers helped Ho through an at-times rocky transition.

Architecture of experience

Harvard’s House system nurtures students to find their passions

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DateMay 2, 2012July 11, 2019

Eliot House residents in the Eliot Boat Club, the intramural crew program, haul their boat to the Charles for a morning row.

A look inside: Eliot House

Row, row, row your boat

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DateApril 19, 2012

George Kenty (pictured) manages the Eliot House Woodshop where students come to create anything from doorstops to Adirondack chairs.

A look inside: Eliot House

A basement haven for woodworking

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DateFebruary 16, 2012

Eliot House resident Wesley Mann '13 celebrates a foosball goal inside the Eliot House Grille with Jordan Sessler '13 (from left), Devan Kennifer '12, Elena Pepe '13, and Steve Tricanowicz '13.

‘E Pluribus Domus’

For Eliot House residents, Inferno Grille is Paradiso

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DateDecember 15, 2011March 15, 2019

Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds (from left), President Drew Faust, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma gathered onstage to help Harvard celebrate its 375th anniversary.

375th party under the umbrellas

Festive crowd wouldn't let weather dampen their spirits

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DateOctober 14, 2011May 21, 2019

Rebecca M. Henderson (left) 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 groundbreaking scholarship that crosses academic boundaries.

Two named University Professors

Henderson, Melton recognized for groundbreaking scholarship that crosses academic boundaries

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DateSeptember 27, 2011June 6, 2019

Eliot House

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DateSeptember 23, 2011February 13, 2018

Ben Enowitz '12 (from left) and Wes Mann '13 play "cornhole" on the lawn during Eliot House's welcome back barbecue.

A look inside: Eliot House

The historic residence welcomes back students with food, fun

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DateSeptember 22, 2011April 16, 2019

Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian brings events to order at the start of Harvard's 360th Commencement.

Moments that make Commencement

Tales of centenarian alumni, tuxedoed guides, playful students, and angry squirrels

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DateMay 26, 2011July 26, 2019

$Skier Marguerite Thorp '11 headed to Africa after stress fractures forced her out of the Winter Olympics U.S. ski cross team. “It was the best Plan B ever,” she said of her decision not to return immediately to Harvard. “I have no idea how I would have stayed with pre-med if I hadn’t seen the outlet of working internationally and working in settings of poverty.”$

Racing to find her passion

Her skiing halted by injury, Thorp expands passion for public health

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DateMay 26, 2011June 26, 2019

PBK inducts Class of 2012 members

Elects first 24 to Harvard College chapter

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DateApril 4, 2011July 18, 2019

A celebration inside Annenberg Hall marked Harvard’s annual Housing Day, when freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.

A sort of homecoming

Harvard’s Housing Day brings a lot of ecstasy, and a little agony

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DateMarch 10, 2011July 19, 2019

Ekene Agu '13 is among the 60 or so Harvard undergraduates who have joined Sustained Dialogue, a program that brings together students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often-divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Learning to listen

Power of personal experience links students from diverse backgrounds

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DateFebruary 14, 2011July 19, 2019

48 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa

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DateNovember 19, 2010

Christie McDonald (clockwise from top left), Rakesh Khurana, and Douglas Melton have been appointed House masters. “I’m tremendously pleased that such outstanding scholars — and talented, enthusiastic members of the Harvard community — will be taking on these important and influential roles,” said Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds in making the announcement.

House masters appointed

Harvard College Dean Hammonds appoints new masters for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses

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DateMarch 26, 2010July 18, 2019

(Hayneville, AL - March 16, 2010) - From left, Marcel Moran, '11, George Thampy, '10, Nworah Ayogu, '10, Rachael Goldberg, '12 and Kennedy Mukuna, '12 join Harvard students from the Phillips Brooks House Association's Alternative Spring Break program to help rebuild the Hayneville Church of Christ in Hayneville, Alabama. Staff Photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office

A church rises again

Harvard undergrads put hands together and learn new skills

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DateMarch 17, 2010May 17, 2019

Lino Pertile, the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the new director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti.

New director of I Tatti

Pertile will succeed Connors at Renaissance center next summer

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DateDecember 16, 2009

Samuel Bjork '10, a chemistry concentrator who lives in Eliot House, is one of 35 new Marshall Scholars nationwide.

Bjork named Marshall Scholar

Chemistry concentrator plans to work toward an M.Phil. at Cambridge University

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DateDecember 1, 2009