Tag: Harvard Houses

  • Nation & World

    Making Harvard’s Houses home

    Some are new to the role while others are veterans, but their mission is the same: to create a community for their ‘extended family’ of students.

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    Food for thought

    Harvard’s varied dining halls attract undergraduates because of their intriguing spaces and moods, as well as their meals.

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    May Day poetry at Lowell House

    As part of the traditional daylong May Day celebration, a poetry reading by the Lowell House Poemical Society took place May 1 at Lowell House, with festivities also featuring an early morning waltz on the Weeks Bridge, a bacchanal, and a recital with the historic Lowell House bells.

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    ‘In the Dark’

    Bathed in crimson light and huddled around an evening campfire, “Eve” and “Zade” — played by Taylor Phillips ’13 and Matt Bialo ’15 — take an apocalyptic stroll through a forest filled with a dark wonder and pathos in the Adams House Pool Theater production of “In the Dark.”

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    The sudsiest night of the year

    The 11th annual Mather Lather brought excitement, and soap, to House life.

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    Inside Pforzheimer House: GreekFest

    For the fourth consecutive year, the Pforzheimer House dining services staff helped students and staff celebrate GreekFest by creating a delicious feast.

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    A look inside: Pforzheimer House

    Pfoho Pfridays use the newly renovated Junior Common Room to celebrate the weekend’s arrival at 5 p.m.

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    Warren E.C. Wacker dies

    Warren E.C. Wacker, former Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus, died on Dec. 29, 2012.

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    A week in the life of Leverett House

    Established in 1930, Leverett House is the largest residential House at Harvard. These photos explore a week in the life of Leverett House.

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    In the swing of things

    During the renovation of Old Quincy House, three swing spaces in Harvard Square have become residential extensions of the Quincy community: Ridgley Hall, Hampden Hall, and Fairfax Hall.

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    A look inside: Lowell House

    Lowell House residents like to de-stress in their free time by doing yoga.

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    A look inside: Quincy House

    Harvard’s Housing Day came full force to Quincy House, as students colorfully welcomed new residents.

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    A look inside: Lowell House

    The Lowell House Speeches, initiated last year by resident tutor Sandy Alexander, are an opportunity for students to practice public discourse, while at the same time giving housemates a more personal glimpse into the lives of people they may recognize only in passing.

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    A look inside: Radcliffe Quad

    Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses border the Quad, but mostly it belongs to Cabot House, which has residences on three of the four sides.

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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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    A look inside: Currier House

    The crest of Currier House shows a field of red, representing Harvard, surrounding a simple golden tree. Within their own communal “tree,” Currier residents have been “greening” the way they live.

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    A look inside: Dunster House

    Like other Harvard Houses, Dunster has its traditions, the major ones being the Dunster House Opera, the “Messiah” sing-a-long, and a goat roast in the spring.

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    A look inside: Currier House

    Unlike the other undergraduate residences at Harvard, Currier House on the Radcliffe Quadrangle is named solely for a woman.

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    A look inside: Kirkland House

    Within the dark-paneled Junior Common Room of Kirkland House, comedic duo Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the masterminds behind the teenage hilarity in the films “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary,” entertained a crowd recently as part of the popular series “Conversations with Kirkland.”

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