Tag: Winthrop House

  • Campus & Community

    Order out of chaos

    Freshmen, who spend their first year on campus in dormitories in Harvard Yard, were each sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses today.

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  • Campus & Community

    Remembering the co-ed experiment

    A search sheds light on the controversial turning point 40 years ago when men and women first shared housing in Pforzheimer and Winthrop.

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  • Campus & Community

    The defense of Ebenezer

    A Winthrop House tradition retakes the airwaves, as WHRB rebroadcasts professor’s defense of Christmas anti-hero Ebenezer Scrooge.

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  • Campus & Community

    A room fit for a president

    A Winthrop House suite that once housed the young John F. Kennedy gets a facelift, and recreates the room as the future U.S leader would have known it.

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  • Campus & Community

    Making an art of science

    Graduating senior Kevin Shee threw himself into Harvard’s dance scene after arriving as a freshman, but he leaves after nourishing a second love — science — that will take him to a research career after graduation.

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  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Winthrop House

    Stars from the hit series “The Wire” attended a dinner in their honor at Winthrop House.

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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 look inside: Winthrop House

    Winthrop House residents crowded into the House Junior Common Room on a recent Sunday night to attend the inaugural Winthrop Winter Showcase. An impressive array of performances ensued, with dance dominating the evening.

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  • Campus & Community

    The space in between

    Scores of Harvard undergraduates will participate in nearly 100 activities — from stand-up comedy to public service — during Harvard’s inaugural Optional Winter Activities Week (OWAW), Jan. 16-23. College officials say that OWAW is a response to the new academic calendar and to student interest in programming during the downtime between fall and spring semesters.

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  • Campus & Community

    48 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa

    Forty-eight seniors were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.

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  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Winthrop House

    This year, Winthrop House hopes to again claim victory by winning the Straus Cup, Harvard’s House intramural sports championship.

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  • Campus & Community

    It’s all about the numbers

    Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.

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  • Nation & World

    A church rises again

    Harvard undergrads on Alternative Spring Break learn construction techniques while helping to complete a rebuilt Alabama church.

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  • Campus & Community

    Winthrop House names master, co-master

    Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson have been appointed master and co-master of Winthrop House. Sullivan has been a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007. He is also director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, with areas of interest including criminal law, criminal proceedings, legal ethics, and race theory.…

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  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 25, 1951 — The Medical School attracts some 250 graduates to its first Alumni Day.

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  • Campus & Community

    Winnie returns to take helm of Office of International Programs

    Students looking to study abroad have a new ally as Catherine Hutchison Winnie takes the reins of the Office of International Programs (OIP) this month. No stranger to Harvard, Winnie spent two years of her childhood in Winthrop House as the daughter of former House masters William Hutchison and Virginia Quay Hutchison, and returned as…

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