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Tag: Opening Week 2012
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Yard full of fun
The College Events Board welcomed back Harvard students on Friday with its annual outdoor festival. This year’s event transformed Harvard Yard into a carnival, complete with a bounce house, dunk tank, games, music, and carnival food.
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From library to living room
The newly renovated first floor of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) was unveiled Wednesday night. The space was completely changed and updated over the summer as part of the College’s efforts to enhance undergraduate social spaces.
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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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So close and yet so far
The latest freshman class, sweepingly broad geographically, includes students from 10,000 miles away and some from Harvard’s own ZIP code.
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The sharing of the green
At orientation sessions, Harvard’s Schools provide students with information on how to live more sustainably and help the University to reduce its environmental footprint.
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A warm welcome, and a challenge
Forced indoors by rain, College freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre and the Memorial Church to become formal members of the Class of 2016 at Harvard’s annual convocation.
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Fresh year, new minister
The Rev. Jonathan L. Walton debuts as Pusey Minister of Harvard’s Memorial Church, telling his listeners to take actions that make a difference, based on their faith.
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New beginnings
In her traditional annual remarks at the first fall Morning Prayers, Harvard President Drew Faust found common ground between the secular and the religious, “the ineffable and the immediate,’’ and reminded listeners of “the need to serve both.”
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Lessons that lead toward peace
The new dean of Harvard Divinity School, David Hempton, delivered a moving convocation address that recalled the violence from his past, and offered hope for the future.
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At 50, a building still dares
A new art exhibit opens a yearlong celebration of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which turns 50 in May.
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Let them both eat cake
For the first time, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and the Yale Repertory Theatre (Yale Rep) are collaborating on a stage production: the world premiere of “Marie Antoinette.”
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‘From Austen to Zola’
Works from Amy Lowell’s collection are showcased in “From Austen to Zola: Amy Lowell as a Collector,” Houghton Library’s fall exhibition. This exhibit opens on Sept. 4 and will run through Jan. 12, 2013.
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A moving experience
More than 1,600 undergraduates took the first step yesterday to making Harvard their home for the next four years, as they began arriving early in the morning for the ritual of freshman move-in day.
