Featured series 
Tag: Harvard History
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Campus & Community
Overseer, HAA elected director elections ballot set
Candidates as they will appear on the ballot
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Campus & Community
Making Crimson history at Super Bowl
Appearance of Chiefs’ Jones, 49ers’ Juszczyk will mark 1st time there will be an alum on both sides of pro football’s biggest game
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Arts & Culture
What’s it like to watch ‘Maestro’ as Leonard Bernstein’s daughter? ‘Surreal.’
Alum recalls dad’s love of Harvard, learning as biopic draws Oscar noms
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Campus & Community
Speaking his mind
Interim President Alan Garber on leadership transition, promoting dialogue, hopes for year ahead
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Campus & Community
How hip-hop got to Harvard
Colleagues, artists, friends gather to celebrate Marcyliena Morgan, founding director of University’s Archive & Research Institute
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Campus & Community
University to offer travel funding for Tribes to boost repatriation efforts
Native American Program planning move to new home
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Campus & Community
‘A moment of possibility’
University Archives marks inauguration of Claudine Gay with two special displays.
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Nation & World
Saying their names
Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”
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Arts & Culture
Harvard’s religious past
A Harvard Divinity School lecturer says that to understand where the University is, it’s important to see where it’s been.
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Campus & Community
Futuristic PIVOT app serves up Harvard history
Harvard University formally launched its official interactive online tour app last week. PIVOTtheWorld is a free app that allows visitors to visually experience the history of Harvard with a swipe — or pivot — of their smart phone.
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Campus & Community
The sound of victory
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when…
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Nation & World
Reflections on the Marshall Plan
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reflects on predecessor George C. Marshall’s Commencement address at Harvard in 1947, which extended America’s hand to a battered Europe and, in so doing, helped to create a stable postwar order and an inclusive, long-term U.S. foreign policy.
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Campus & Community
My lasting Harvard memory
Samantha Noh ’15 shares her memorable Harvard moment, connecting to a distant student past as part of the Yard archaeology digs .
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Campus & Community
Photographs and memories
Every Commencement at Harvard, the Yard fills with graduates and their families celebrating. But look closely in the front row, and you’ll see another jovial gathering. Press photographers from all over the region flock to the Yard to immortalize the regalia and traditions in Tercentenary Theatre. For the Boston press corps, noted for its collegiality,…
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Campus & Community
Ode to a venerable library
Narrated by John Lithgow ’67, this visual love letter to libraries celebrates books and those who watch over them while marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard’s flagship library.
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Campus & Community
Going forward, a look back
The Harvard Campaign, milestones in the arts, and scientific breakthroughs marked 2013-14 at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
A celebration of ideas
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is turning 15, with 900 of its closest friends in attendance. During the ceremonies, the institute will award the Radcliffe Medal to its former dean, Harvard President Drew Faust.
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Campus & Community
Listen for the bells
In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university, a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 363rd Commencement Exercises, for the 26th consecutive year.
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Campus & Community
The people’s toll
The Lowell House bells have been a staple at Harvard since 1930.
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Campus & Community
Gripes between bites
A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry spreads its web
At month’s end, Professor Elisa New will begin teaching “Poetry in America,” her first digital course on HarvardX.
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Campus & Community
A year of change, month by month
2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.
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Campus & Community
Bell ringing marks Commencement
In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university, a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 362nd Commencement Exercises, for the 25th consecutive year.
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Campus & Community
Financial aid increases by $10M
Harvard College will increase its financial aid budget for the 2013–14 academic year by $10 million, or 5.8 percent, bringing the total to a record $182 million. Since 2007, Harvard’s investment in financial aid for undergraduates at the College has increased by 88 percent.
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Campus & Community
Last stretch for Community Gifts
As Harvard Community Gifts comes to a close on Jan. 15, Program Manager Mary Ann O’Brien hopes Harvard employees are inspired to start the New Year in the spirit of giving.
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Campus & Community
Varsity status for women’s rugby
Harvard will create a varsity women’s rugby team, to begin play in the 2013-14 season.
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Campus & Community
Daniel Aaron’s century
A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.
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Campus & Community
O, hear the bells
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the…