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After the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) immediately increased their presence on campus. Some HUPD officers faced dangers on Thursday's overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers.<\/p>

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During the white-heat search for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect on Friday, Harvard shut down, along with 87 square miles of Greater Boston, as government officials had requested. But behind the campus calm, administrators and staff labored intensely to keep systems humming, and Harvard University Police aided the manhunt.<\/p>\n

Starting at 7 a.m. and for nearly 12 hours afterward, there were no classes, no shuttle buses, and no conferences at the University. Fourteen Harvard cafes and coffee shops never opened. Crimson Catering ceased operation. At Harvard College, Visitas, the weekend program for prospective freshmen, was canceled. At Harvard Law School, an alumni weekend gathering also was canceled, along with a program for prospective students.<\/p>\n

The shutdown lasted until shortly before the bombing suspect was captured Friday evening in nearby Watertown. In an email to the Harvard community<\/a> Saturday, President Drew Faust remarked on the double-edged quality of Friday, a day of both vigilance and togetherness. \u201cYesterday was a harrowing day in a week of tragedy, suffering, and uncertainty,\u201d she wrote, \u201cas well as courage and solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world. MBTA bus and subway service stopped. Most businesses closed. Traffic was scant. State and city officials asked citizens to \u201cshelter at home.\u201d Harvard officials told the University community to do likewise.<\/p>\n

But as with the world at large, Harvard\u2019s machinery never entirely stops. On Friday, the departments that supply security, power, meals, maintenance, and custodial services kept running.<\/p>\n

Lisa Hogarty, vice president for Harvard Campus Services<\/a>, summed up the operational result as \u201cvery smooth.\u201d The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine. At Annenberg, free meals were provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students shut out of their usual dining venues.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t

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Even though Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world on Friday, its machinery never stopped. The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n

At lunchtime at Annenberg, freshmen gave dining hall workers a standing ovation. Many had been pressed into service from Crimson Catering, where workers typically start at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n

A moment later, the same students spoke for everyone in the Boston area who felt defiant and proud in the face of Monday\u2019s terror attack. Standing to face the American flag in Annenberg, they sang the national anthem. Nina Hooper \u201914 witnessed that moment and called it \u201clovely.\u201d (She\u2019s Australian.)<\/p>\n

The Harvard University Police Department<\/a> (HUPD) was the tip of the spear during the shutdown. Thursday night, following the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, HUPD kept its 3-to-11 shift on duty through the night. That doubled the police presence on campus overnight, a tactic used for the next two shifts as well, until 11 p.m. Friday, just after the manhunt ended. \u201cWe had a lot of officers working a lot of time,\u201d said HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano. \u201cIt was all hands on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n

HUPD officers helped pursue suspects<\/b><\/p>\n

Some HUPD officers faced dangers on the overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers. \u201cThey were getting shot at, and grenades were being thrown in their area,\u201d said Catalano of the responding Harvard officers. \u201cThey put themselves in jeopardy [that] night.\u201d<\/p>\n

But on the University\u2019s Cambridge and Harvard campuses Friday, quiet reigned. Visiting scholars, shut off from scheduled conferences, organized mini-tours through Harvard Yard. Others sequestered at the Faculty Club, including many Marcel Proust scholars at Harvard for an international conference marking the 100th anniversary<\/a> of \u201cSwann\u2019s Way,\u201d the first volume of the novel \u201cIn Search of Lost Time.\u201d Organizer <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, a lecturer in Harvard\u2019s Department of Comparative Literature, wrote in an email: \u201cThey worked on their papers or just followed the news. One did mention brushing up on some Flaubert.\u201d<\/p>\n

At midafternoon, National Guard soldiers stood watch on Harvard\u2019s periphery near the entrance tunnel for MBTA buses. Two HUPD cars were at opposite ends of Harvard Yard, engines idling. Freed from classes, undergraduates played soccer and threw Frisbees and footballs. Near Massachusetts Hall, two young men played a blistering game of baseball catch.<\/p>\n

Later, with a soft rain falling, a knot of tourists \u2014 a rare sight Friday \u2014 paused near the John Harvard Statue, their umbrellas open. An undergraduate walked by on the way to dinner at Annenberg, wearing a T-shirt that was an advertisement for normalcy. It read, \u201cNo one says \u2018When I grow up, I want to go to Yale.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond the crowded Yard, the streets were nearly bare of traffic. At one point, Catalano looked out the window of his Massachusetts Avenue office. He saw two pedestrians and one car. (In her email, Faust wrote of the eerie stillness of the daylong communitywide lockdown.)<\/p>\n

The emptied streets and slowed traffic seemed \u201ccrazy,\u201d but they were a relief too, said Catalano. \u201cEveryone followed the directions [to shelter inside]. It was a smart thing to do: Stay safe and let law enforcement do its work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Twelve Harvard alert emails<\/b><\/p>\n

Twelve Harvard alert emails were broadcast to the community through the day. (The last, at 9:27 p.m., was a poem of joy and relief: \u201cSuspect taken into custody in Watertown. Safe to resume normal activity.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Hogarty praised that effective communication, including the flurry of internal emails that for Catalano began at 10:56 p.m. Thursday, after the MIT shooting. \u201cThat started a very, very long night of communication,\u201d Catalano said, including, at 12:15 a.m. Friday, the first of many conference calls. Catalano, like many Harvard officials, barely slept. Between 2 and 4 a.m., 31 emails had flooded his computer from just two College officials, and another 25 from people elsewhere. In the morning, said Catalano, \u201cthings heated up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things stayed hot through the day for Harvard\u2019s Crisis Management Team, too. This core group of administration deans from each School, along with Massachusetts Hall officials and vice presidents associated with operations, joined in nearly hourly groups calls \u2014 10 of them between 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. alone, said Hogarty. Among the topics addressed were the timing of the closure, logistical needs (like how to staff the kitchens), and the content of messages to the Harvard community.<\/p>\n

At dinnertime, Faust joined Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds at Annenberg Hall, where they spent 45 minutes talking with freshmen.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, Harvard Provost (and Boston Marathoner) Alan M. Garber<\/a> made the dinner rounds at Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses to mingle with upperclassmen. Along the way, he met some students who had been diverted from the marathon just a few blocks from the finish line Monday.\u00a0A few of them ran or walked all the way back to Harvard \u2014 cold, and without access to their checked personal belongings.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t

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At Annenberg, free meals were also provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students. Following Friday's lunch, freshmen gave the dining hall workers a standing ovation. File photo by Amanda Swinhart\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n

Students pitch in to keep Houses working<\/b><\/p>\n

At Cabot House, students stepped in to make up for a staffing shortfall by washing dishes and checking in students. At Annenberg, Hooper, the freshman from Australia, organized two shifts of a dozen Class of 2016 friends to help out in the kitchen. \u201cIt was a nice chance to get to know the kitchen staff,\u201d she wrote late Friday night.<\/p>\n

But it was more than that, she added, writing a capstone for a day of cooperation.\u00a0 \u201cThere is something very special about the students at Harvard,\u201d and it goes beyond just being bright, she wrote. \u201cBecause they come from so many different ways of life, they really know how to appreciate how good we have it here and all those who make this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Some HUPD officers faced dangers on Thursday's overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers.<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Photos by Rose Lincoln\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","innerContent":["<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"403\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hupd_tuesday_605.jpg\" width=\"605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">After the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) immediately increased their presence on campus. Some HUPD officers faced dangers on Thursday's overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers.<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Photos by Rose Lincoln\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n"],"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"403\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hupd_tuesday_605.jpg\" width=\"605\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">After the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, members of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) immediately increased their presence on campus. Some HUPD officers faced dangers on Thursday's overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers.<\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Photos by Rose Lincoln\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tCampus & Community\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tShuttered but humming\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"author wp-block-post-author__name\">\n\t\tCorydon Ireland\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">\n\t\t\tHarvard Staff Writer\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2013-04-20\">\n\t\t\tApril 20, 2013\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t7 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tWhen Harvard closed during marathon manhunt, administrators, staff, and police had challenges to meet\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n"},"2":{"blockName":"core\/group","attrs":{"templateLock":false,"metadata":{"name":"Article content"},"align":"wide","layout":{"type":"constrained","justifyContent":"center"},"tagName":"div","lock":[],"className":"","style":[],"backgroundColor":"","textColor":"","gradient":"","fontSize":"","fontFamily":"","borderColor":"","ariaLabel":"","anchor":""},"innerBlocks":[{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\t\t<p>During the white-heat search for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect on Friday, Harvard shut down, along with 87 square miles of Greater Boston, as government officials had requested. But behind the campus calm, administrators and staff labored intensely to keep systems humming, and Harvard University Police aided the manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 7 a.m. and for nearly 12 hours afterward, there were no classes, no shuttle buses, and no conferences at the University. Fourteen Harvard cafes and coffee shops never opened. Crimson Catering ceased operation. At Harvard College, Visitas, the weekend program for prospective freshmen, was canceled. At Harvard Law School, an alumni weekend gathering also was canceled, along with a program for prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown lasted until shortly before the bombing suspect was captured Friday evening in nearby Watertown. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/message-to-community\">email to the Harvard community<\/a> Saturday, President Drew Faust remarked on the double-edged quality of Friday, a day of both vigilance and togetherness. \u201cYesterday was a harrowing day in a week of tragedy, suffering, and uncertainty,\u201d she wrote, \u201cas well as courage and solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world. MBTA bus and subway service stopped. Most businesses closed. Traffic was scant. State and city officials asked citizens to \u201cshelter at home.\u201d Harvard officials told the University community to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>But as with the world at large, Harvard\u2019s machinery never entirely stops. On Friday, the departments that supply security, power, meals, maintenance, and custodial services kept running.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Hogarty, vice president for <a href=\"http:\/\/campusservices.harvard.edu\">Harvard Campus Services<\/a>, summed up the operational result as \u201cvery smooth.\u201d The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine. At Annenberg, free meals were provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students shut out of their usual dining venues.<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n\t\t<p>During the white-heat search for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect on Friday, Harvard shut down, along with 87 square miles of Greater Boston, as government officials had requested. But behind the campus calm, administrators and staff labored intensely to keep systems humming, and Harvard University Police aided the manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 7 a.m. and for nearly 12 hours afterward, there were no classes, no shuttle buses, and no conferences at the University. Fourteen Harvard cafes and coffee shops never opened. Crimson Catering ceased operation. At Harvard College, Visitas, the weekend program for prospective freshmen, was canceled. At Harvard Law School, an alumni weekend gathering also was canceled, along with a program for prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown lasted until shortly before the bombing suspect was captured Friday evening in nearby Watertown. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/message-to-community\">email to the Harvard community<\/a> Saturday, President Drew Faust remarked on the double-edged quality of Friday, a day of both vigilance and togetherness. \u201cYesterday was a harrowing day in a week of tragedy, suffering, and uncertainty,\u201d she wrote, \u201cas well as courage and solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world. MBTA bus and subway service stopped. Most businesses closed. Traffic was scant. State and city officials asked citizens to \u201cshelter at home.\u201d Harvard officials told the University community to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>But as with the world at large, Harvard\u2019s machinery never entirely stops. On Friday, the departments that supply security, power, meals, maintenance, and custodial services kept running.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Hogarty, vice president for <a href=\"http:\/\/campusservices.harvard.edu\">Harvard Campus Services<\/a>, summed up the operational result as \u201cvery smooth.\u201d The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine. At Annenberg, free meals were provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students shut out of their usual dining venues.<\/p>\n"],"rendered":"\n\t\t<p>During the white-heat search for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect on Friday, Harvard shut down, along with 87 square miles of Greater Boston, as government officials had requested. But behind the campus calm, administrators and staff labored intensely to keep systems humming, and Harvard University Police aided the manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 7 a.m. and for nearly 12 hours afterward, there were no classes, no shuttle buses, and no conferences at the University. Fourteen Harvard cafes and coffee shops never opened. Crimson Catering ceased operation. At Harvard College, Visitas, the weekend program for prospective freshmen, was canceled. At Harvard Law School, an alumni weekend gathering also was canceled, along with a program for prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown lasted until shortly before the bombing suspect was captured Friday evening in nearby Watertown. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/message-to-community\">email to the Harvard community<\/a> Saturday, President Drew Faust remarked on the double-edged quality of Friday, a day of both vigilance and togetherness. \u201cYesterday was a harrowing day in a week of tragedy, suffering, and uncertainty,\u201d she wrote, \u201cas well as courage and solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world. MBTA bus and subway service stopped. Most businesses closed. Traffic was scant. State and city officials asked citizens to \u201cshelter at home.\u201d Harvard officials told the University community to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>But as with the world at large, Harvard\u2019s machinery never entirely stops. On Friday, the departments that supply security, power, meals, maintenance, and custodial services kept running.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Hogarty, vice president for <a href=\"http:\/\/campusservices.harvard.edu\">Harvard Campus Services<\/a>, summed up the operational result as \u201cvery smooth.\u201d The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine. At Annenberg, free meals were provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students shut out of their usual dining venues.<\/p>\n"},{"blockName":"core\/image","attrs":{"sizeSlug":"full","align":"none","id":136192,"caption":"Even though Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world on Friday, its machinery never stopped. 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The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t"],"rendered":"\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/anneberg_sign_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136192\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Even though Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world on Friday, its machinery never stopped. The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n<p>At lunchtime at Annenberg, freshmen gave dining hall workers a standing ovation. Many had been pressed into service from Crimson Catering, where workers typically start at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A moment later, the same students spoke for everyone in the Boston area who felt defiant and proud in the face of Monday\u2019s terror attack. Standing to face the American flag in Annenberg, they sang the national anthem. Nina Hooper \u201914 witnessed that moment and called it \u201clovely.\u201d (She\u2019s Australian.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hupd.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University Police Department<\/a> (HUPD) was the tip of the spear during the shutdown. Thursday night, following the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, HUPD kept its 3-to-11 shift on duty through the night. That doubled the police presence on campus overnight, a tactic used for the next two shifts as well, until 11 p.m. Friday, just after the manhunt ended. \u201cWe had a lot of officers working a lot of time,\u201d said HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano. \u201cIt was all hands on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>HUPD officers helped pursue suspects<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some HUPD officers faced dangers on the overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers. \u201cThey were getting shot at, and grenades were being thrown in their area,\u201d said Catalano of the responding Harvard officers. \u201cThey put themselves in jeopardy [that] night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on the University\u2019s Cambridge and Harvard campuses Friday, quiet reigned. Visiting scholars, shut off from scheduled conferences, organized mini-tours through Harvard Yard. Others sequestered at the Faculty Club, including many Marcel Proust scholars at Harvard for an international conference marking the 100th <a href=\"\/gazette\/story\/2013\/02\/a-remembrance-of-things-proust\/\">anniversary<\/a> of \u201cSwann\u2019s Way,\u201d the first volume of the novel \u201cIn Search of Lost Time.\u201d Organizer<b> <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, a lecturer in Harvard\u2019s Department of Comparative Literature, wrote in an email: \u201cThey worked on their papers or just followed the news. One did mention brushing up on some Flaubert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At midafternoon, National Guard soldiers stood watch on Harvard\u2019s periphery near the entrance tunnel for MBTA buses. Two HUPD cars were at opposite ends of Harvard Yard, engines idling. Freed from classes, undergraduates played soccer and threw Frisbees and footballs. Near Massachusetts Hall, two young men played a blistering game of baseball catch.<\/p>\n<p>Later, with a soft rain falling, a knot of tourists \u2014 a rare sight Friday \u2014 paused near the John Harvard Statue, their umbrellas open. An undergraduate walked by on the way to dinner at Annenberg, wearing a T-shirt that was an advertisement for normalcy. It read, \u201cNo one says \u2018When I grow up, I want to go to Yale.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the crowded Yard, the streets were nearly bare of traffic. At one point, Catalano looked out the window of his Massachusetts Avenue office. He saw two pedestrians and one car. (In her email, Faust wrote of the eerie stillness of the daylong communitywide lockdown.)<\/p>\n<p>The emptied streets and slowed traffic seemed \u201ccrazy,\u201d but they were a relief too, said Catalano. \u201cEveryone followed the directions [to shelter inside]. It was a smart thing to do: Stay safe and let law enforcement do its work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twelve Harvard alert emails<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Twelve Harvard alert emails were broadcast to the community through the day. (The last, at 9:27 p.m., was a poem of joy and relief: \u201cSuspect taken into custody in Watertown. Safe to resume normal activity.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Hogarty praised that effective communication, including the flurry of internal emails that for Catalano began at 10:56 p.m. Thursday, after the MIT shooting. \u201cThat started a very, very long night of communication,\u201d Catalano said, including, at 12:15 a.m. Friday, the first of many conference calls. Catalano, like many Harvard officials, barely slept. Between 2 and 4 a.m., 31 emails had flooded his computer from just two College officials, and another 25 from people elsewhere. In the morning, said Catalano, \u201cthings heated up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things stayed hot through the day for Harvard\u2019s Crisis Management Team, too. This core group of administration deans from each School, along with Massachusetts Hall officials and vice presidents associated with operations, joined in nearly hourly groups calls \u2014 10 of them between 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. alone, said Hogarty. Among the topics addressed were the timing of the closure, logistical needs (like how to staff the kitchens), and the content of messages to the Harvard community.<\/p>\n<p>At dinnertime, Faust joined Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds at Annenberg Hall, where they spent 45 minutes talking with freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Harvard Provost (and Boston Marathoner) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provost.harvard.edu\/people\/\">Alan M. Garber<\/a> made the dinner rounds at Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses to mingle with upperclassmen. Along the way, he met some students who had been diverted from the marathon just a few blocks from the finish line Monday.\u00a0A few of them ran or walked all the way back to Harvard \u2014 cold, and without access to their checked personal belongings.<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n<p>At lunchtime at Annenberg, freshmen gave dining hall workers a standing ovation. Many had been pressed into service from Crimson Catering, where workers typically start at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A moment later, the same students spoke for everyone in the Boston area who felt defiant and proud in the face of Monday\u2019s terror attack. Standing to face the American flag in Annenberg, they sang the national anthem. Nina Hooper \u201914 witnessed that moment and called it \u201clovely.\u201d (She\u2019s Australian.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hupd.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University Police Department<\/a> (HUPD) was the tip of the spear during the shutdown. Thursday night, following the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, HUPD kept its 3-to-11 shift on duty through the night. That doubled the police presence on campus overnight, a tactic used for the next two shifts as well, until 11 p.m. Friday, just after the manhunt ended. \u201cWe had a lot of officers working a lot of time,\u201d said HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano. \u201cIt was all hands on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>HUPD officers helped pursue suspects<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some HUPD officers faced dangers on the overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers. \u201cThey were getting shot at, and grenades were being thrown in their area,\u201d said Catalano of the responding Harvard officers. \u201cThey put themselves in jeopardy [that] night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on the University\u2019s Cambridge and Harvard campuses Friday, quiet reigned. Visiting scholars, shut off from scheduled conferences, organized mini-tours through Harvard Yard. Others sequestered at the Faculty Club, including many Marcel Proust scholars at Harvard for an international conference marking the 100th <a href=\"\/gazette\/story\/2013\/02\/a-remembrance-of-things-proust\/\">anniversary<\/a> of \u201cSwann\u2019s Way,\u201d the first volume of the novel \u201cIn Search of Lost Time.\u201d Organizer<b> <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, a lecturer in Harvard\u2019s Department of Comparative Literature, wrote in an email: \u201cThey worked on their papers or just followed the news. One did mention brushing up on some Flaubert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At midafternoon, National Guard soldiers stood watch on Harvard\u2019s periphery near the entrance tunnel for MBTA buses. Two HUPD cars were at opposite ends of Harvard Yard, engines idling. Freed from classes, undergraduates played soccer and threw Frisbees and footballs. Near Massachusetts Hall, two young men played a blistering game of baseball catch.<\/p>\n<p>Later, with a soft rain falling, a knot of tourists \u2014 a rare sight Friday \u2014 paused near the John Harvard Statue, their umbrellas open. An undergraduate walked by on the way to dinner at Annenberg, wearing a T-shirt that was an advertisement for normalcy. It read, \u201cNo one says \u2018When I grow up, I want to go to Yale.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the crowded Yard, the streets were nearly bare of traffic. At one point, Catalano looked out the window of his Massachusetts Avenue office. He saw two pedestrians and one car. (In her email, Faust wrote of the eerie stillness of the daylong communitywide lockdown.)<\/p>\n<p>The emptied streets and slowed traffic seemed \u201ccrazy,\u201d but they were a relief too, said Catalano. \u201cEveryone followed the directions [to shelter inside]. It was a smart thing to do: Stay safe and let law enforcement do its work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twelve Harvard alert emails<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Twelve Harvard alert emails were broadcast to the community through the day. (The last, at 9:27 p.m., was a poem of joy and relief: \u201cSuspect taken into custody in Watertown. Safe to resume normal activity.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Hogarty praised that effective communication, including the flurry of internal emails that for Catalano began at 10:56 p.m. Thursday, after the MIT shooting. \u201cThat started a very, very long night of communication,\u201d Catalano said, including, at 12:15 a.m. Friday, the first of many conference calls. Catalano, like many Harvard officials, barely slept. Between 2 and 4 a.m., 31 emails had flooded his computer from just two College officials, and another 25 from people elsewhere. In the morning, said Catalano, \u201cthings heated up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things stayed hot through the day for Harvard\u2019s Crisis Management Team, too. This core group of administration deans from each School, along with Massachusetts Hall officials and vice presidents associated with operations, joined in nearly hourly groups calls \u2014 10 of them between 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. alone, said Hogarty. Among the topics addressed were the timing of the closure, logistical needs (like how to staff the kitchens), and the content of messages to the Harvard community.<\/p>\n<p>At dinnertime, Faust joined Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds at Annenberg Hall, where they spent 45 minutes talking with freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Harvard Provost (and Boston Marathoner) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provost.harvard.edu\/people\/\">Alan M. Garber<\/a> made the dinner rounds at Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses to mingle with upperclassmen. Along the way, he met some students who had been diverted from the marathon just a few blocks from the finish line Monday.\u00a0A few of them ran or walked all the way back to Harvard \u2014 cold, and without access to their checked personal belongings.<\/p>\n"],"rendered":"\n<p>At lunchtime at Annenberg, freshmen gave dining hall workers a standing ovation. Many had been pressed into service from Crimson Catering, where workers typically start at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A moment later, the same students spoke for everyone in the Boston area who felt defiant and proud in the face of Monday\u2019s terror attack. Standing to face the American flag in Annenberg, they sang the national anthem. Nina Hooper \u201914 witnessed that moment and called it \u201clovely.\u201d (She\u2019s Australian.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hupd.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University Police Department<\/a> (HUPD) was the tip of the spear during the shutdown. Thursday night, following the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, HUPD kept its 3-to-11 shift on duty through the night. That doubled the police presence on campus overnight, a tactic used for the next two shifts as well, until 11 p.m. Friday, just after the manhunt ended. \u201cWe had a lot of officers working a lot of time,\u201d said HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano. \u201cIt was all hands on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>HUPD officers helped pursue suspects<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some HUPD officers faced dangers on the overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers. \u201cThey were getting shot at, and grenades were being thrown in their area,\u201d said Catalano of the responding Harvard officers. \u201cThey put themselves in jeopardy [that] night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on the University\u2019s Cambridge and Harvard campuses Friday, quiet reigned. Visiting scholars, shut off from scheduled conferences, organized mini-tours through Harvard Yard. Others sequestered at the Faculty Club, including many Marcel Proust scholars at Harvard for an international conference marking the 100th <a href=\"\/gazette\/story\/2013\/02\/a-remembrance-of-things-proust\/\">anniversary<\/a> of \u201cSwann\u2019s Way,\u201d the first volume of the novel \u201cIn Search of Lost Time.\u201d Organizer<b> <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, a lecturer in Harvard\u2019s Department of Comparative Literature, wrote in an email: \u201cThey worked on their papers or just followed the news. One did mention brushing up on some Flaubert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At midafternoon, National Guard soldiers stood watch on Harvard\u2019s periphery near the entrance tunnel for MBTA buses. Two HUPD cars were at opposite ends of Harvard Yard, engines idling. Freed from classes, undergraduates played soccer and threw Frisbees and footballs. Near Massachusetts Hall, two young men played a blistering game of baseball catch.<\/p>\n<p>Later, with a soft rain falling, a knot of tourists \u2014 a rare sight Friday \u2014 paused near the John Harvard Statue, their umbrellas open. An undergraduate walked by on the way to dinner at Annenberg, wearing a T-shirt that was an advertisement for normalcy. It read, \u201cNo one says \u2018When I grow up, I want to go to Yale.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the crowded Yard, the streets were nearly bare of traffic. At one point, Catalano looked out the window of his Massachusetts Avenue office. He saw two pedestrians and one car. (In her email, Faust wrote of the eerie stillness of the daylong communitywide lockdown.)<\/p>\n<p>The emptied streets and slowed traffic seemed \u201ccrazy,\u201d but they were a relief too, said Catalano. \u201cEveryone followed the directions [to shelter inside]. It was a smart thing to do: Stay safe and let law enforcement do its work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twelve Harvard alert emails<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Twelve Harvard alert emails were broadcast to the community through the day. (The last, at 9:27 p.m., was a poem of joy and relief: \u201cSuspect taken into custody in Watertown. Safe to resume normal activity.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Hogarty praised that effective communication, including the flurry of internal emails that for Catalano began at 10:56 p.m. Thursday, after the MIT shooting. \u201cThat started a very, very long night of communication,\u201d Catalano said, including, at 12:15 a.m. Friday, the first of many conference calls. Catalano, like many Harvard officials, barely slept. Between 2 and 4 a.m., 31 emails had flooded his computer from just two College officials, and another 25 from people elsewhere. In the morning, said Catalano, \u201cthings heated up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things stayed hot through the day for Harvard\u2019s Crisis Management Team, too. This core group of administration deans from each School, along with Massachusetts Hall officials and vice presidents associated with operations, joined in nearly hourly groups calls \u2014 10 of them between 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. alone, said Hogarty. Among the topics addressed were the timing of the closure, logistical needs (like how to staff the kitchens), and the content of messages to the Harvard community.<\/p>\n<p>At dinnertime, Faust joined Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds at Annenberg Hall, where they spent 45 minutes talking with freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Harvard Provost (and Boston Marathoner) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provost.harvard.edu\/people\/\">Alan M. Garber<\/a> made the dinner rounds at Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses to mingle with upperclassmen. 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File photo by Amanda Swinhart\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t","innerContent":["\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annenberg_file_amanda-swinhart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136189\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">At Annenberg, free meals were also provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students. Following Friday's lunch, freshmen gave the dining hall workers a standing ovation. File photo by Amanda Swinhart\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t"],"rendered":"\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annenberg_file_amanda-swinhart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136189\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">At Annenberg, free meals were also provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students. 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At Annenberg, Hooper, the freshman from Australia, organized two shifts of a dozen Class of 2016 friends to help out in the kitchen. \u201cIt was a nice chance to get to know the kitchen staff,\u201d she wrote late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>But it was more than that, she added, writing a capstone for a day of cooperation.\u00a0 \u201cThere is something very special about the students at Harvard,\u201d and it goes beyond just being bright, she wrote. \u201cBecause they come from so many different ways of life, they really know how to appreciate how good we have it here and all those who make this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n<p><b>Students pitch in to keep Houses working<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At Cabot House, students stepped in to make up for a staffing shortfall by washing dishes and checking in students. 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At Annenberg, Hooper, the freshman from Australia, organized two shifts of a dozen Class of 2016 friends to help out in the kitchen. \u201cIt was a nice chance to get to know the kitchen staff,\u201d she wrote late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>But it was more than that, she added, writing a capstone for a day of cooperation.\u00a0 \u201cThere is something very special about the students at Harvard,\u201d and it goes beyond just being bright, she wrote. \u201cBecause they come from so many different ways of life, they really know how to appreciate how good we have it here and all those who make this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n\r\n\t\n\t\r\n\r\n\t\n\t\r\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n","\r\n\t","\n\t\r\n","\r\n\t","\n\t\r\n","\n\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>During the white-heat search for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect on Friday, Harvard shut down, along with 87 square miles of Greater Boston, as government officials had requested. But behind the campus calm, administrators and staff labored intensely to keep systems humming, and Harvard University Police aided the manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 7 a.m. and for nearly 12 hours afterward, there were no classes, no shuttle buses, and no conferences at the University. Fourteen Harvard cafes and coffee shops never opened. Crimson Catering ceased operation. At Harvard College, Visitas, the weekend program for prospective freshmen, was canceled. At Harvard Law School, an alumni weekend gathering also was canceled, along with a program for prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown lasted until shortly before the bombing suspect was captured Friday evening in nearby Watertown. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/message-to-community\">email to the Harvard community<\/a> Saturday, President Drew Faust remarked on the double-edged quality of Friday, a day of both vigilance and togetherness. \u201cYesterday was a harrowing day in a week of tragedy, suffering, and uncertainty,\u201d she wrote, \u201cas well as courage and solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world. MBTA bus and subway service stopped. Most businesses closed. Traffic was scant. State and city officials asked citizens to \u201cshelter at home.\u201d Harvard officials told the University community to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>But as with the world at large, Harvard\u2019s machinery never entirely stops. On Friday, the departments that supply security, power, meals, maintenance, and custodial services kept running.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Hogarty, vice president for <a href=\"http:\/\/campusservices.harvard.edu\">Harvard Campus Services<\/a>, summed up the operational result as \u201cvery smooth.\u201d The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine. At Annenberg, free meals were provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students shut out of their usual dining venues.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/anneberg_sign_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136192\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Even though Harvard hunkered down in tandem with the wider outside world on Friday, its machinery never stopped. The College\u2019s 6,000 students were fed three times at 12 residential Houses and at Annenberg Hall, where freshmen dine.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n<p>At lunchtime at Annenberg, freshmen gave dining hall workers a standing ovation. Many had been pressed into service from Crimson Catering, where workers typically start at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A moment later, the same students spoke for everyone in the Boston area who felt defiant and proud in the face of Monday\u2019s terror attack. Standing to face the American flag in Annenberg, they sang the national anthem. Nina Hooper \u201914 witnessed that moment and called it \u201clovely.\u201d (She\u2019s Australian.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hupd.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard University Police Department<\/a> (HUPD) was the tip of the spear during the shutdown. Thursday night, following the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, HUPD kept its 3-to-11 shift on duty through the night. That doubled the police presence on campus overnight, a tactic used for the next two shifts as well, until 11 p.m. Friday, just after the manhunt ended. \u201cWe had a lot of officers working a lot of time,\u201d said HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano. \u201cIt was all hands on deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>HUPD officers helped pursue suspects<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some HUPD officers faced dangers on the overnight shift, as they joined a multiagency car chase through Cambridge and Watertown that ended in a gun battle with the suspected marathon bombers. \u201cThey were getting shot at, and grenades were being thrown in their area,\u201d said Catalano of the responding Harvard officers. \u201cThey put themselves in jeopardy [that] night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on the University\u2019s Cambridge and Harvard campuses Friday, quiet reigned. Visiting scholars, shut off from scheduled conferences, organized mini-tours through Harvard Yard. Others sequestered at the Faculty Club, including many Marcel Proust scholars at Harvard for an international conference marking the 100th <a href=\"\/gazette\/story\/2013\/02\/a-remembrance-of-things-proust\/\">anniversary<\/a> of \u201cSwann\u2019s Way,\u201d the first volume of the novel \u201cIn Search of Lost Time.\u201d Organizer<b> <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Proulx, a lecturer in Harvard\u2019s Department of Comparative Literature, wrote in an email: \u201cThey worked on their papers or just followed the news. One did mention brushing up on some Flaubert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At midafternoon, National Guard soldiers stood watch on Harvard\u2019s periphery near the entrance tunnel for MBTA buses. Two HUPD cars were at opposite ends of Harvard Yard, engines idling. Freed from classes, undergraduates played soccer and threw Frisbees and footballs. Near Massachusetts Hall, two young men played a blistering game of baseball catch.<\/p>\n<p>Later, with a soft rain falling, a knot of tourists \u2014 a rare sight Friday \u2014 paused near the John Harvard Statue, their umbrellas open. An undergraduate walked by on the way to dinner at Annenberg, wearing a T-shirt that was an advertisement for normalcy. It read, \u201cNo one says \u2018When I grow up, I want to go to Yale.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the crowded Yard, the streets were nearly bare of traffic. At one point, Catalano looked out the window of his Massachusetts Avenue office. He saw two pedestrians and one car. (In her email, Faust wrote of the eerie stillness of the daylong communitywide lockdown.)<\/p>\n<p>The emptied streets and slowed traffic seemed \u201ccrazy,\u201d but they were a relief too, said Catalano. \u201cEveryone followed the directions [to shelter inside]. It was a smart thing to do: Stay safe and let law enforcement do its work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twelve Harvard alert emails<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Twelve Harvard alert emails were broadcast to the community through the day. (The last, at 9:27 p.m., was a poem of joy and relief: \u201cSuspect taken into custody in Watertown. Safe to resume normal activity.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Hogarty praised that effective communication, including the flurry of internal emails that for Catalano began at 10:56 p.m. Thursday, after the MIT shooting. \u201cThat started a very, very long night of communication,\u201d Catalano said, including, at 12:15 a.m. Friday, the first of many conference calls. Catalano, like many Harvard officials, barely slept. Between 2 and 4 a.m., 31 emails had flooded his computer from just two College officials, and another 25 from people elsewhere. In the morning, said Catalano, \u201cthings heated up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things stayed hot through the day for Harvard\u2019s Crisis Management Team, too. This core group of administration deans from each School, along with Massachusetts Hall officials and vice presidents associated with operations, joined in nearly hourly groups calls \u2014 10 of them between 6 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. alone, said Hogarty. Among the topics addressed were the timing of the closure, logistical needs (like how to staff the kitchens), and the content of messages to the Harvard community.<\/p>\n<p>At dinnertime, Faust joined Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds at Annenberg Hall, where they spent 45 minutes talking with freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Harvard Provost (and Boston Marathoner) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provost.harvard.edu\/people\/\">Alan M. Garber<\/a> made the dinner rounds at Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot Houses to mingle with upperclassmen. Along the way, he met some students who had been diverted from the marathon just a few blocks from the finish line Monday.\u00a0A few of them ran or walked all the way back to Harvard \u2014 cold, and without access to their checked personal belongings.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annenberg_file_amanda-swinhart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136189\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">At Annenberg, free meals were also provided to Harvard police officers, custodians, and graduate students. Following Friday's lunch, freshmen gave the dining hall workers a standing ovation. File photo by Amanda Swinhart\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n<p><b>Students pitch in to keep Houses working<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At Cabot House, students stepped in to make up for a staffing shortfall by washing dishes and checking in students. At Annenberg, Hooper, the freshman from Australia, organized two shifts of a dozen Class of 2016 friends to help out in the kitchen. \u201cIt was a nice chance to get to know the kitchen staff,\u201d she wrote late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>But it was more than that, she added, writing a capstone for a day of cooperation.\u00a0 \u201cThere is something very special about the students at Harvard,\u201d and it goes beyond just being bright, she wrote. \u201cBecause they come from so many different ways of life, they really know how to appreciate how good we have it here and all those who make this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n"}},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135690,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2013\/04\/marathon-vigils\/","url_meta":{"origin":136158,"position":0},"title":"Marathon vigils","author":"harvardgazette","date":"April 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When reports swept the Harvard campus Monday afternoon that two bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon had killed and wounded people at the finish line, a wave of sadness and concern swept the campus.","rel":"","context":"In "Campus & Community"","block_context":{"text":"Campus & Community","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_memvigil_099_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_memvigil_099_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_memvigil_099_605.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136044,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2013\/04\/harvard-community-can-help\/","url_meta":{"origin":136158,"position":1},"title":"Harvard community can help","author":"harvardgazette","date":"April 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For the many members of the Harvard community seeking to help the victims in the marathon tragedy and their families, please consider donating to the fund established by Governor Patrick and Mayor Menino, The One Fund Boston.","rel":"","context":"In "Campus & Community"","block_context":{"text":"Campus & Community","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_memvigil_100_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_memvigil_100_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_memvigil_100_605.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135565,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2013\/04\/campus-gatherings-vigils\/","url_meta":{"origin":136158,"position":2},"title":"Resources in the aftermath of tragedy","author":"harvardgazette","date":"April 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The following events are being held to help the Harvard community cope with Monday\u2019s tragedy during the Boston Marathon.","rel":"","context":"In "Campus & Community"","block_context":{"text":"Campus & Community","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_helicopter_004.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_helicopter_004.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_helicopter_004.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":154372,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2014\/04\/measuring-the-marathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":136158,"position":3},"title":"Measuring the marathon","author":"harvardgazette","date":"April 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A new report by Harvard crisis-management and criminal-justice experts, and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, considers the factors that led to the successes and failures of last year\u2019s emergency response to the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt.","rel":"","context":"In "Nation & World"","block_context":{"text":"Nation & World","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/032514_marathon_022_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/032514_marathon_022_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/032514_marathon_022_605.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":356630,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2023\/04\/scars-remain-decade-after-boston-marathon-bombings\/","url_meta":{"origin":136158,"position":4},"title":"Scars remain a decade later","author":"gazettebeckycoleman","date":"April 12, 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