Tag: Phillips Brooks House

  • Nation & World

    Communities spirit

    Class of 2021 graduate Christopher Altizer believes in the importance of a support network.

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    Chris Altizer.
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    Art for justice’s sake

    Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.

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    ‘Pathway to public service’

    Lexi Smith ’18, who is the latest Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, wants to serve at the city level because that’s where she sees the tangible action for environmental change.

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    A gift for public service

    New Mindich programs will support Harvard College students’ efforts to help others through public service.

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    Trumpet and coffee in hand

    Capping his lauded Harvard lectureship, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” musician Wynton Marsalis visited the Phillips Brooks House for an intimate conversation about his hometown of New Orleans.

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    With Visitas canceled, Harvard improvises

    As a region-wide lockdown closed Harvard, University officials struggled with the difficult decision to cancel Visitas, Harvard College’s program for newly admitted students. Members of the Harvard community used social media to reach out to those who had planned to attend the event.

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    College touts success of Wintersession

    College officials are analyzing students’ Wintersession 2012 evaluations and say that the response to January’s programming was strongly positive. They credit the success of the optional period of student- and faculty-led activities to a focus on real-world knowledge and a greatly expanded schedule of offerings.

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    Phillips Brooks House launches gift drive

    Beginning Dec. 1 Phillips Brooks House will launch Harvard’s annual holiday gift drive — an effort to collect more than 1,500 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge.

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    PBHA launches holiday gift drive

    Phillips Brooks House has launched Harvard’s annual holiday gift drive — an effort to collect more than 1,000 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge.

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    Bill Lee to join Harvard Corporation

    William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, a Boston-based intellectual property expert and former Harvard Overseer who leads one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today (April 11).

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    This month in Harvard history

    Sept. 7, 1775 — The “New-England Chronicle or Essex Gazette” advertises that the Harvard Corporation and Overseers have chosen the Town of Concord as “a proper place for convening the Members of the said public Seminary of Learning” as the Revolution rages in Cambridge. Students are due in Concord by Oct. 4; probably less than…

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    This month in Harvard history

    This month in Harvard history: February

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