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Tag: Harvard Yard
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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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Arts & Culture
Talent takes to the street
Behind a large white tent in front of the Science Center, Harvard University Dining Services staff members worked over sizzling grills, cooking hot dogs and hamburgers to feed a large crowd of staff, students, and Greater Cambridge residents.
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Campus & Community
Organic brew puts green back into Yard
Earth Week is a good time to celebrate earth itself — the planet’s loose covering of fine-ground ancient rock we call soil.
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Campus & Community
Unleashed pets barred from Yard
Effective April 1, unleashed pets will no longer be allowed in Harvard Yard. All pets, with the exception of service animals, must be on a leash at all times.
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Campus & Community
Unleashed pets barred from Yard
Effective April 1, unleashed pets will no longer be allowed in Harvard Yard. All pets, with the exception of service animals, must be on a leash at all times. This policy is designed to ensure the safety of residents, staff, and visitors. This policy will be strictly enforced in the Yard by the Harvard University…
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Arts & Culture
Heaney ‘catches the heart off guard’
Over the years, readings by poet Seamus Heaney have been so wildly popular that his fans are called “Heaneyboppers.” A reading this week at Sanders Theatre, sponsored by Harvard’s Department of English and American Literature and Language, was no exception. The event’s free tickets were gone weeks ago, within hours, and on Tuesday (Sept. 30)…
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Campus & Community
Yard takes carnival turn to welcome students
The Tercentenary Theatre was converted into a colorful, albeit slightly damp, minicarnival, Friday (Sept. 12) as Harvard College welcomed its returning and newest undergraduates to campus for an afternoon and evening of food, friends, and fun.
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Campus & Community
Organic matters: The Yard returns to its roots with help of GSD
On April 16, seeding began with a healthy dose of “compost tea” — a liquid biological amendment — from the brewing vat located just past the entrance to the Yard across from the Science Center.
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Campus & Community
Man of Year Walken tours the Yard
Actor Chistopher Walken walked the walk through Harvard Yard Friday afternoon (Feb. 15), touring campus with a guide from Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
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Arts & Culture
Digging history in Harvard Yard
It was crowded in the hole in Harvard Yard, with sophomore Reyzl Geselowitz and freshman Alison Liewen crouching in the square pit, elbow to elbow and more than a yard deep in Harvard’s dark earth.
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Campus & Community
American Indians bless search for Harvard roots
With a ceremonial blessing and a cautionary reminder of native peoples’ historic oppression, a group of American Indian leaders joined an assemblage of experienced and budding archaeologists Wednesday (Sept. 26) to begin the search for Harvard’s Indian College roots.
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Campus & Community
Chandler memorial service upcoming
A memorial service for Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, will be held at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on Oct. 19. Chandler died May 9, 2007, at the age of 88.
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Campus & Community
Seeing Scarlett
In Harvard Yard just before noon today (Feb. 15), there was ice, slush, wind, a 2-degree wind chill – and there was Scarlett Johansson.