Tag: Radcliffe Yard

  • Nation & World

    Stewarding arts philanthropy

    New Dumbarton Oaks humanities fellowship mixes study and career preparation.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What a freshman sees

    For College student Jasper Johnston ’20, discovering Harvard is a shared experience through Instagram.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hidden Spaces: The Sunken Garden in Radcliffe Yard

    Young and old travel from near and far to the Radcliffe sunken garden to sit and enjoy this splendid oasis in the city.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Radcliffe looks ahead

    A yearlong Radcliffe Institute competition and ensuing construction project culminated in the unveiling of a dramatic work of public art, in time for the launch of The Radcliffe Campaign’s “Invest in Ideas.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Deep knowledge

    For their capstone project in the course ES 96: “Engineering Design Seminar,” 16 SEAS students conducted an analysis of the geothermal heating and cooling system that serves Radcliffe’s Byerly Hall.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

    Don’t be puzzled. Be moved and amazed. Those 10 conical piles of rock, sand, and aggregate in one corner of Radcliffe Yard are actually “Stock-Pile,” a work of landscape art.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

    4 minutes
    Toni Morrison.