Winthrop
Mitton the Magician!
Winthrop House welcomed magician Mark Mitton as their Senior Common Room Speaker this past week. Watch highlights of his magical performance here!
Class Day Student Speaker: Molly O. Fitzpatrick '11
One day before Commencement, Harvard College will hold Class Day, an annual event where seniors gather and listen to four featured student speakers. We sat down with the 2011 Ivy Female Oration Speaker Molly O. Fitzpatrick '11 and learned about her Harvard experience.
Winthropians Celebrate Straus Cup Win
At the awards ceremony for this year's intramural seasons, Winthrop House cemented its dynasty by claiming its fourth consecutive Straus Cup. Freshman dorms Massachusetts Hall and Apley Court took their first Yard Bucket ever. After the ceremony, we followed the Winthropians as they celebrated their 14th win since 1935.
Administrators Consider Closure of House Gyms
As administrators from the College evaluate the equipment in the House gyms, several House Masters say that the closure of House gyms is on the table because of the expense of maintenance—though no decision has yet been reached.
Japan Benefit Dinner
Students line up at a buffet during a benefit dinner in support of disaster relief efforts in Japan. Organized by Harvard Students for Japan, the dinner was held Saturday night at Winthrop dining hall. Proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross.
Housing Videos Continue To Get Musical
Pforzheimer, Kirkland, and Winthrop have released new Housing Day videos, each in the style of popular musical videos.
Winthrop House
If you're a freshman, you may have seen Winthrop House when you first toured campus, but it's possible that you haven't passed the House since. Winthrop is easy to miss and is often overshadowed by the more prominent towers of neighboring Eliot, Lowell, and Leverett. But is flying under the radar such a bad thing?
Housing Day Videos and Post-Its
Housing day is just over a week away, and Houses have continued to release videos for both freshmen and upperclassmen alike to enjoy.
Frank Criticizes Spending
Barney Frank ’61 shared his opinions on topics ranging from government spending to gay rights in a speech punctuated by light-heartedness last night in the Winthrop Junior Common Room.
Compelling and Controlled, HRO Succeeds
The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, under the direction of Federico Cortese, Senior Lecturer in Music, opened its concert season last Friday at ...
Winthrop (Literally) Parades Straus Cup Victory
To celebrate their third consecutive year in winning the House Intramural Program championship, Winthrop IM representatives paraded through some of ...
Winthrop Three-Peats to Highlight the End of Intramural Season
They may have been ranked among the, well, less desirable in FlyBy’s house reviews, but Winthrop certainly knows how to ...
DAPA Marijuana seminar
Students talk to health professionals and police officers about the physical effects and legal consequences of marijuana at a seminar sponsored by the Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors last night.
The Most Important Meal Of The Day: FlyBy Does Brain Break (Part 3)
In this four-part series, FlyBy will dish out the details of each House’s Brain Break so that you know where to go when those evening munchies hit. Round 3: Winthrop vs. Eliot vs. Kirkland Evaluation Day: Wednesday
Harvard Housing Day 2010
Harvard upperclassmen were out in full form as they welcomed the class of 2013 to their newly assigned residential dorms Thursday.
Winthrop House
Winthrop is Harvard’s most welcoming and illustrious House with probably the best corps of alumni that Harvard can offer.
Winthrop Opens Access to Tunnels
Making life easier for students who want to get meals, exercise, or do laundry without facing fickle Cambridge weather, Winthrop House has given students direct access to a formerly locked basement.
Lucky Family
When I walk into Boylston Hall and turn left, I’m confronted with a table; the moment I’m within the threshold ...
Nowhere To Eat
Why does it feel like the colder it gets at Harvard, the more House dining halls close their giant wooden doors on poor hungry non-residents? Winthrop has just joined the ranks of Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, and Quincy by instituting dining hall restrictions. Life for quadlings and other wanderers has just gotten a little bit worse.
Do Not Walk on Frozen Water
As we drove back into Cambridge this past weekend, the river sparkled, glossed over with a sheet of ice. There ...