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Project Beethoven Fashion Show
Project Beethoven gave college students from the greater Boston area the chance to put their design skills to the test. Gowns inspired by Beethoven were modeled and judged on a runway within the Boston Symphony Hall.
Fashion Show
Nicole Wzorek, a student designer from Lasell College, makes her way to the judging room amid a packed room of patrons.
freshmen vegetarian cooking
Sylvia M. Warren '14 and Leila H. Shayegan '14 blend the mixture for black beans cake as chef Martin T. Breslin, the Director for Culinary Operations, adds tomatoes.
Dingman Hosts Cooking Class
Everything has its benefits, even fat. A group of ten freshmen learned this lesson—and more—last night at a vegetarian cooking class, held at the house of Freshman Dean Thomas A. Dingman ’67.
Unisex Bathrooms
Lowell House is the location of one of the many unisex bathrooms on Harvard's campus.
Jumping the Puddles
High snow piles notched a new record—the snowfall in the past January is the third highest amount of snow the city has ever received on record, at 38 inches.
Feb. 7, 1978: Harvard’s Only Snow Day
Harvard historically has been reluctant to declare a snow day.
Slushy Treks
Students were forced to wade through large slushy puddles or find creative ways around them in order to get to classes on Wednesday. Some wore practical rain boots while others sported high-heeled shoes or even flip-flops. Particularly perilous crossings inlcuded Mount Auburn St. by the Hurst Gallery, Quincy St. by the Sackler Museum, and the main stretch of Mass Ave.
Snow Way I'm Parking Here
Slush fills these rarely-empty parking spaces, in a prime location on Massachusetts Avenue. Traffic through Harvard Square has been restricted by enormous snowbanks on either side of the road, leaving less space for MBTA buses and cars alike to pull over.
Icing Some Bros
An immense icicle dangles precariously from the roof of the Delphic Club at 9 Linden Street. Many Harvard facilities have had ice cleared off, but not all privately-owned buildings have taken as much care to remove such hazards.
Faculty Review Honors, Expos 30
In the first Faculty meeting of the new semester, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris introduced a proposal for a new advanced course, Expository Writing 30.
Library Closings
All Harvard College libraries will close at 10 p.m. today. Lamont Library will be the only College library open Wednesday, but will only be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Normal library hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Thursday.
Founders Abandon Rose Society
The Rose Society Philanthropic Club will not become Harvard’s sixth all-female final club this year.
Department Extends Economics 1010a Change
Continuing an experiment that began this fall, the Harvard economics department will offer three versions of intermediate microeconomics in the next academic year.
Hate it: Tiger Moms
Move over Stalin, there’s a new dictator in town, and this tiger mom is in no mood for failure (A-) ...
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers, former Harvard President and current Charles W. Eliot University Professor.
Harvard's First OWAW
Before classes even started, campus was teeming with students who returned a week early for Optional Winter Activities Week (OWAW).
Etiquette Dinner
Deborah Thomas-Nininger, hosted by OCS, speaks to students about business etiquette at the “Etiquette dinner” on Friday.