Harvard Yard
Eager Freshmen Get Early Start to Election
Mitt Romney announced on June 2, 2011. President Obama declared a couple months earlier on April 4. The first candidate for this month's Undergraduate Council elections made public his intentions nearly a month before even arriving on campus, on August 4, 2012.
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Dean of Freshmen, Tom Dingman, and students gather in the shadow of John Harvard and the American flag, as they remember the attacks on September 11, 2001 - "Let us bow our heads in a moment of silence".
Woman Allegedly Raped in Harvard Yard
A woman was raped in Harvard Yard early Friday morning, University police announced in an email to the Harvard community.
Student Civil Rights Activist Arrested and Beaten by Police, 1964
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
Graduating Class of 1904 Included Farmer, Three Dry Goods Salesmen, and 121 Lawyers
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past. June 24, 1904: Senior Class Occupations Abbott, H., law. Acosta, R.M. de, law. Adams, A.K., teaching. Adams, G.P., teaching. June 25, 1942: 675 Will Register in Memorial Hall Approximately 675 students will register today in historic Memorial Hall to become members of a freshman class which bids well to grow by September to one of the largest classes in the 300 years of Harvard history, if not the largest.
Digging Through Donations
Curious to see what students decided to leave on campus, and hoping to find some gifts for the family—father’s day is coming up—I channeled my inner raccoon and dug through the Habitat for Humanity donation bins set up in the Yard. After two hours of digging and losing all of my dignity, I discovered that there were some pretty questionable items—and students—in the freshman class. Here's a recap of some of the notable items I found:
The Early Birds
Students, friends, and family flood the yard at 7:00 AM on Thursday in order to find seats for the morning exercises. Ticket-holders had been waiting outside of the gates as early as 5:00 AM.
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Workers continued setting up chairs for commencement on Tuesday, extending the seating up to the lawn above the yard next to Houghton Library.
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Thousands of chairs are set up in Tercentenary Theater in preparation for Thursday's commencement exercises. Diplomas will be distributed during morning exercises, followed by an afternoon featuring Harvard alumnus and journalist Fareed Zakaria, this year's Commencement day speaker.
Primal Scream
Upholding tradition, students streaked and shrieked through Harvard Yard on the eve of the first day of Spring exams.
Student Coordinators Limited by Yardfest Budget
Students involved in the College Events Board and Harvard College Concert Commission, the two organizations responsible for planning Yardfest, said they were severely limited by their budget.
MADE: Prefrosh Edition
While the age discrepancy is small, the gap between a prefrosh and a Harvard student is large. With their red Visitas folders and herd mentality, prefrosh spent the past weekend walking around Harvard Yard with wide eyes and dangling lanyards. It is easy to forget that that was us a few years ago. From living at home and taking AP tests to living in dorms and pulling all-nighters, how can a high school senior smoothly make the transition? Silas M. Farley is an ordinary prefrosh: naive, confused, and still immersed in high school. Can he discover his inner Ivy Leaguer and be MADE into a Harvard student?
