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Tag: Harvard Square
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Nation & World
Like all true love stories, this one comes with heartache
Scholar’s ‘Harvard Square’ more than an academic pursuit
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A people’s history of Cambridge
In “The Streets of Newtowne: A Story of Cambridge, MA.” professor tells the story of city from Indigenous origins to present in children’s book illustrated by alum.
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A look ’round the Square
The students and the shops may change in Harvard Square, but its spirit and streets carry on.
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Happy return for Hasty Pudding
After pandemic pause in 2021, Harvard troupe celebrates Man of the Year Jason Bateman and Woman of the Year Jennifer Garner.
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Out of Town out of time
The shuttering of Out of Town News in Harvard Square marks the end of an era.
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’Tis the season for al fresco
A listing of about three dozen suggestions for al fresco dining and drinking around Harvard Square.
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John Harvard’s Charlestown
After a recent snowfall, we explored the neighborhood of the University’s namesake and spoke with historian Rosemary Kverek of Charlestown and Cambridge Historical Commission Director Charles Sullivan.
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Serving up community and sustainable fare
The renovation of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center is on schedule, and food vendors have been announced for its fall opening.
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Uncovering Harvard Square’s past
A restoration at Clover restaurant in Harvard Square saved previously hidden, glass-covered, tiled school pennants from a century ago.
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Students shelter homeless youth at Y2Y
Founded by two Harvard College graduates and staffed mostly by students at the College, Y2Y Harvard Square is the nation’s first student-run homeless shelter exclusively for young adults.
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A student’s Harvard Square hideaways
For an undergraduate, Harvard Square is busy and crowded, but it’s home, particularly when you know what parts of it make you happy.
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Lacking a loo no longer
Cambridge opens a stand-alone, year-round public toilet for Harvard Square
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Goodbye tourists, hello residents
As the Class of 2017 settled in at Harvard and began Freshman Week, students from around the world were busy taking in the unfamiliar sights and sounds of their tightly packed, red-brick neighborhood, their home base for the next four years.
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A shoe thing
A limited-edition sneaker honoring the “three lies” of the John Harvard Statue goes on sale, drawing fashion fans from far and wide.
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A landmark, that’s no lie
Pinocchio’s Pizza is a Harvard Square fixture for decades, serving as a late-night standby for generations of Harvard students.
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Emerging to a renewed normal
After a tense Friday that saw the campus and the Greater Boston area on lockdown, Harvard came to life again Saturday as students and visitors flooded into Harvard Square.
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Affordable housing, saved
Representatives of Harvard and many agencies gather to celebrate preserving the affordability of 25 homes in Chapman Arms Apartments in Harvard Square.
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Preserving affordable housing
Twenty-five affordable apartments in Harvard Square’s Craigie Arms Apartments will remain affordable for at least 50 additional years after the city of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the nonprofit Homeowners Rehab Inc. (HRI) put together a creative plan to preserve the affordability of these units through HRI’s purchase of the 50-unit Craigie Arms building.
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Harvard encourages ‘shop local’
Harvard University is encouraging staff, faculty, and students to “shop local” this holiday season and support locally owned, small businesses near work and in their home communities.
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Taking the baton
When Harvard admits its freshman class each April, it invites new students to a weekend’s immersion in College life. Here’s how the experience changed a life.
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At college, but almost home
When freshman Anna Kelsey realizes she needs something from home, she just walks seven minutes to get it.
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Shopping in, and for, the Square
Dozens of staff, faculty, and students — along with local business owners and Harvard President Drew Faust — turned out at Forbes Plaza on Dec. 2 to kick off Crimson Shops Local, an annual effort by the University and the Harvard Square Business Association to encourage shopping nearby for the holidays.
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Harvard encourages community to shop local this season
Harvard University and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) are teaming up again this holiday season to encourage the Harvard community to “think Harvard Square” and shop locally.
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It’s Arts First at Harvard
The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.
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Stage set for theater festival
The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.
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Hasty Pudding is set
Actress Anne Hathaway will parade through Harvard Square as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year this Thursday (Jan. 28). Man of the Year Justin Timberlake will be honored on Feb. 5.
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On the road and out of control
If you’re a student not on foot, getting around Harvard Square can be a time-consuming maze.
