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Tag: Harvard History
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Campus & Community
The newest live in the oldest
The top floor of Mass Hall, as it is commonly known, is still used as a dorm for a small group of students. The remainder of the building serves as office space for Harvard’s top administrators.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Creation of Mather’
In celebration of the creation of Mather House some 40 years ago, Co-Masters Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten have organized a retrospective exhibit of the House’s design and construction in the Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery.
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Campus & Community
Fight fiercely, Harvard
Boxing has longstanding roots at the University. A required sport in the halcyon days of Theodore Roosevelt, today the Harvard Boxing Club is keeping tradition alive, but with a modern twist — its inclusion of women.
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Campus & Community
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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Arts & Culture
On summer break, a poem
An undergraduate on summer break is inspired to write a poem celebrating Harvard’s 375th anniversary.
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Campus & Community
How Harvard celebrated
A look at how Harvard has celebrated some previous anniversaries.
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Campus & Community
A party starts 375th celebrations
Entertainment, food, festivities highlight October gathering.
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Campus & Community
Bells mark Commencement
For 23 years, they have rung out across Cambridge in Harvard’s honor, marking the conclusion of Morning Exercises.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s historic mark
As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Commence wonderment
Harvard’s foundation is built on years of traditions and Commencement offers a collection of the some of the most intriguing. Here’s the back story on today’s events.
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Campus & Community
The gym unlocker
Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.
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Campus & Community
Digitizing Dunster
To celebrate Dunster’s 400th year, the Harvard University Archives, with generous support from the Sidney Verba Fund, has digitized the Dunster family papers and made them available on the Internet.
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Campus & Community
Freshman Parents Weekend
In October, Freshman Parents Weekend fills campus with mothers and fathers eager to and experience all aspects of Harvard life.
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Campus & Community
Weld Boathouse
Harvard’s Weld Boathouse has been enchanting rowers and residents for more than 100 years.
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Campus & Community
After 100+ years, a first: homecoming at Harvard
The nation’s oldest university, which has been handing out homework since 1636 and handing off footballs since 1874, will host its first homecoming this fall, a potential new tradition designed to attract alumni to campus in years that The Game is played at Yale.
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Campus & Community
Wednesday Tea
Tea time at Harvard is a longstanding tradition. The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes remarks on drinking tea at Harvard in 1968 while drinking tea today.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
The Radcliffe Institute’s first decade is being celebrated this fall, starting with a two-day symposium Oct. 8 and 9 — a star-power taste of the institute’s signature interdisciplinary exchanges.
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Arts & Culture
What a set of pipes
Over the next few years two new organs will take the place of the iconic C.B. Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel. The solution will help the church solve a long-standing musical dilemma.
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Arts & Culture
Practice, education, activism
The Graduate School of Design at Harvard celebrates one of its own, the late J. Max Bond Jr., a pioneering architect.
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Campus & Community
Hasty Pudding Club Forms at Harvard: September 8, 1795
On this day in 1795, 21 Harvard students gathered in a dorm room and formed a secret social club to cultivate “friendship and patriotism.” Members agreed to take turns providing a pot of hasty pudding for the meetings. Thus did the Hasty Pudding Club, the nation’s oldest dramatic institution, get its name…
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Campus & Community
Welcoming Gen Ed
In a celebratory forum in Lowell Lecture Hall Sept. 3, Harvard President Drew Faust and others explain and extol Harvard’s new General Education requirements, which take effect this year with the Class of 2013.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard University Extension School
The Harvard University Extension School will celebrate its centennial anniversary this fall. A private convocation will be held Sept. 25, and a public panel on the future of technology is slated for Nov. 18.
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Campus & Community
Faust delivers first Morning Prayers of academic year
Harvard President Drew Faust, following long tradition by leading the academic year’s first Morning Prayers service at Appleton Chapel, praised the sense of common purpose brought by a coordinated School calendar. “We have chosen a common calendar for the common good,” she said.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
June 21, 1776 — The College reassembles in Cambridge after its eight-month stay in Concord.
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Science & Tech
Green reunions: Groundwork set
As of June 4, Harvard has celebrated 358 commencements. Add to that the simultaneous celebration of untold thousands of reunions.
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Campus & Community
Highlights from a memorable Commencement
On June 4, administrators sighed with relief at the weather, speakers went over their notes, and graduates congregated in black-tasseled flocks alongside a rainbow of professors in their own caps and gowns. Meanwhile, the Harvard Gazette staff fanned out across the campus on Commencement day to pick a rainbow of their own — colorful accounts…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.
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Campus & Community
2008-09: A look back
As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at highlights of the year that was.
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Campus & Community
Janitor’s granddaughter fulfills Harvard dream
Harvard is in my blood, though not in the traditional sense. I was born and brought up in Cambridge, Mass., as were my mother and her siblings. My grandparents struggled to raise seven children during tough financial times, and a college education was not an option.
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Campus & Community
For the 20th straight year, the peal of bells will mark Commencement
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 4). 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…