Tag: Inauguration
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Arts & Culture
From jazz to samba to ‘Hill Street Blues’
A muster of remarkable musicians who also happen to be Harvard graduates gathered in Sanders Theatre Thursday night (Oct. 11) to serenade the soon-to-be inaugurated University President Drew Faust. The…
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Campus & Community
University is accountable to past, future
Gusts of wind shook raindrops from the trees and fluttered the fall’s first yellow leaves onto the heads and shoulders of the Tercentenary Theatre crowd below, but in spite of…
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Campus & Community
Antique silver shines
Company’s coming, and Harvard is bringing out the good silver. The installation of President Drew Faust on Oct. 12 is one of the rare occasions when the eight pieces of…
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Campus & Community
Notes on the evolution of a ceremony
Aug. 27, 1640* Civil and religious officials of the Bay Colony invite Henry Dunster to become “President of the Colledge.” He accepts. Harvard gains its first president. No formal installation…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Insignia
Rarely seen Harvard insignia of office will emerge from the vault of University Archives to bear silent witness to the Oct. 12 installation of President Drew Faust. Directly or by…
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Campus & Community
The President’s Chair
At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there. Seems but little the worse for wear. That’s remarkable when I say It was old in President Holyoke’s day. —Oliver Wendell Holmes…
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Campus & Community
Highlights from 367 years of Harvard presidents
Simple arithmetic supplies one of the most striking facts of Harvard history: since 1640, the institution has had only 27 presidents. The United States – nearly 140 years younger –…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Presidential Announcement: Remarks by President-Elect Drew G. Faust
Text as prepared for delivery Seven years ago, when I was named as the first dean of the new Radcliffe Institute, I said I was deeply honored to have been…