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Tag: Kirkland House
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Campus & Community
‘One of the best traditions of all time’
First-years are welcomed to their new homes with traditional displays of House pride.
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Arts & Culture
Checking in with the local ghosts
Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.
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Campus & Community
The value of the written word
Peer Advising Fellow pen pals help Harvard first-years fit in — even from afar.
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Campus & Community
The House that will be home
On Housing Day, first-year students learn where they will spend their next years at Harvard, and the Houses are as varied as the residents who inhabit them.
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Campus & Community
Getting handwritten letters make friends feel less far away
Integrative biology concentrator Allison Law ’20 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Natick, Mass., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Harbingers of Housing Day
The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.
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Campus & Community
Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
When a House is a bountiful home
Harvard roommates from varied backgrounds say that, in the College’s House system, their differences draw them together.
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Campus & Community
Discovering a ‘richness’ in Harvard’s diversity
Harvard College senior Jacob Scherba’s own health and his sister’s affliction with a rare disorder influenced his merging engineering and medicine.
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Campus & Community
Runners on a hot streak, for charity
More than 1,500 runners and spectators, a third of them from Harvard, turned out for the 14th annual Brian Honan 5K Run/Walk.
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Campus & Community
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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Arts & Culture
Creative, cultured, and diverse
The annual Arts First festival showcased many forms of imaginative expression and creativity across Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Election of Harvard faculty to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 213 new members. They include several Harvard faculty members. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Mass.
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Campus & Community
Hearty welcomes with a touch of rivalry
Every House is best: The Class of 2019 learns their housing fate.
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Campus & Community
Professor Richard N. Frye dies at 94
Harvard scholar, friend, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus Richard Frye taught Iranian history and culture at the University for more than 40 years.
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Campus & Community
Science on a plate
Two Harvard College students deliver pizza (with some STEM education baked in) to Cambridge middle school kids.
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Campus & Community
Get up, it’s Housing Day
Freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, are sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses on Housing Day.
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Arts & Culture
Let’s put on a show
During Wintersession, nine College students traveled to New York City as A.R.T. interns to help Artistic Director Diane Paulus and her production team in the exciting, exhaustive process of bringing a new production to life. The musical “Witness Uganda” will have its world premiere at the A.R.T. on Feb. 4.
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Campus & Community
Two named Aloian Memorial Scholars
Kathryn Walsh ’14, of Adams House, and Roland Yang ’14, of Kirkland House, have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
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Campus & Community
Pfister named interim dean
Donald Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and dean of the Harvard Summer School, has been appointed interim dean of Harvard College. Pfister’s career at Harvard spans nearly 40 years.
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Campus & Community
In MAC Quad, a cardboard castle
Arriving Harvard students helped to build the world’s largest cardboard box fort in the MAC Quad.
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Campus & Community
A maestro and a wordsmith
Senior Matt Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music, with a degree in English, a passion for writing and composing, and a future destined for The New Yorker, or the conductor’s chair, or both.
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Campus & Community
Architecture of experience
Harvard’s distinctive House system, a baker’s dozen of smaller communities, nurtures undergrads to find their passions, and themselves.
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Campus & Community
Hello, Lionel Richie!
Distinguished singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer Lionel Richie will receive the 2011 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award from the Harvard Foundation on Dec. 5 at Kirkland House.
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Campus & Community
All creatures great and small
Viewing all life as interconnected, Australian equine specialist Mark Schembri will use his degree from the Harvard School of Public Health to help humans and animals live healthier.
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Campus & Community
PBK inducts Class of 2012 members
The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, will induct 24 juniors at a formal ceremony at Leverett House on April 25.
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Campus & Community
A sort of homecoming
On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Kirkland House
Holiday festivities are in high gear at Kirkland House.
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Campus & Community
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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Arts & Culture
Farrelly hilarious
Directing, producing, and writing brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly offered insights on their filmmaking craft and comic talents at Kirkland House.
