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Tag: Memorial Hall
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Nation & World
Above and beyond
Gazette photographers take us to the top for views from Harvard’s most scenic vantage points.
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Three lies and lots of truths on campus
We take a tour of Harvard University with Rachel “Rae” Gilchrist ’20, a student who works as tour guide through the College’s Visitor Center.
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Through a glass, brightly
The constellations of stained-glass windows that grace Memorial Hall create a magical feeling above the building’s halls as they transform the space into a veritable museum of American stained glass, with a variety of designers, manufacturers, and techniques on display.
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Taking the stairs
Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.
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A home fit for a king
State wildlife biologists installed a peregrine falcon nesting platform high on Memorial Hall’s tower.
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Constructive summer
Harvard’s Summer School offers students young and old access to the University’s archives, museums, and libraries, as well as more than 300 courses.
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Hidden Spaces: Tower classrooms
Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The classrooms in Memorial Hall are a beautiful example.
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Getting students to perform
Harvard Professor of Music Richard Wolf fell in love with the vina, a South Indian lute, while in college. Now he uses his passion for the vina and other non-Western instruments to help others learn how to play and understand music from other cultures.
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Renewing a hub of Harvard
It has played host to farmers markets, seen musical performances, and been the site of a skating rink. Now, the plaza outside Harvard’s Science Center is about to be refurbished, with the goal of transforming it from a pedestrian walkway into a vibrant meeting space for Harvard student, faculty, and staff events, and the surrounding…
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The making of Memorial Hall
Harvard alumni started discussions about a memorial in May 1865, as the Civil War ended. By December they had chosen a design. Memorial Hall was to be an ornate Gothic Revival structure, with 5,000 square feet of stained glass, a 210-foot tower, intricate slate roofing, and gargoyles sheathed with copper.
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Blue, gray, and Crimson
Before the Civil War, Harvard was a microcosm of the complex loyalties and opinions that marked the United States. During the war, it lost more than 200 of its sons.
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Extension School to host info session
Harvard Extension School will host a general information session on June 15 from 5 to 9 p.m. in Memorial Hall and the Science Center.
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This month in Harvard history
September 1951 — Outside Memorial Hall on registration day, WHRB-Radio conducts a new programming feature: sidewalk interviews of freshmen, who explain why they have come to Harvard and what they think of it.