Featured series 
Tag: Harvard History
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Campus & Community
Harvard Griffin GSAS applications rise nearly 16% over past three years
25,240 applicant pool for master’s, Ph.D. programs
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Campus & Community
What makes a House a home
HoCo chairs share residential life’s quirks, points of pride
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Campus & Community
Calling it as he sees it
Broadcast legend Gus Johnson found ‘the real peace’ at Harvard
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Campus & Community
Ted Donato crosses 300-win marker, creeping up on all-time record
Former standout Crimson, NHL player, now in 20th year as head coach, says success in game is all about character
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Campus & Community
Harvard Law School Dean John Manning named interim provost
John Goldberg to serve as interim dean
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Campus & Community
12 win Harvard Culture Lab awards to advance inclusion and belonging
Community-based projects will benefit University Schools and units
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Campus & Community
University names task force members in efforts to combat antisemitism, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias
‘We must do much more to bridge the fissures that have weakened our sense of community’
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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.
