Rebecca D. Robbins
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Welcome to The Harvard Crimson Admissions Blog
With this blog, The Crimson seeks to disseminate useful, unbiased, and accurate information about what, for some, will be the most important—and the most expensive—years of their lives.
If You're a Harvard Freshman, You're Probably a Virgin
Apparently not everyone is doing it: 65 percent of members of the new freshman class recently surveyed by The Crimson admit to entering Harvard as a virgin.
Froyo Throwdown: A Case for Berryline
Every year, fresh faces with short memories and capricious tastes flood the Square, distracted by new, flashy, corporate froyo options. And Berryline—poor, forgotten Berryline—finds itself further from the hearts of the fickle patrons it sought to serve.
Laid-Off Workers Trade Goodbyes as the Inn at Harvard Closes Its Doors
Nearly 22 years ago, Mustapha Jorti helped welcome the first guests to the Inn at Harvard. On Monday, the University-owned hotel’s final day of operation, he manned a quiet front desk as the Inn’s last patrons checked out of their rooms.
Two Years After Warren, Medical School Lecturer To Run for Governor
Donald M. Berwick ’68, a lecturer on health care policy at Harvard Medical School, announced Monday that he will run for governor of Massachusetts in 2014.
Spotted: Harvard on ESPN.com
It's not every day you see Siyani Chambers and Laurent Rivard on ESPN.com.
Campus Reacts To Inflammatory Flyers
Students in all nine River Houses received sealed invitations under their doors early Friday morning professing to come from “Harvard’s Newest Final Club”—with the inflammatory statements that “Jews need not apply” and “Coloreds OK.”
Sexual Assault Policy Unlikely To Change Soon
Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said this week that Harvard is nowhere close to making the changes to the school’s sexual assault policy advocated in an open student referendum, regardless of whether the motion passes when voting concludes Friday.
Committee To Examine Stress
Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds has tasked a committee with finding ways to relieve stress for overburdened undergraduates.
Harvard Administrators: Yale Has No Chance
Saturday's 129th Harvard-Yale game will be a blowout win for the Crimson, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith predicted in an interview on Wednesday.
Latest Media
Interactive Feature: The Class of 2014, By the Numbers
The Crimson’s annual survey of the graduating senior class, presented in words, graphs, and numbers.
Vector Math
Rather than highlight one of the many examples of advanced mathematical research and scholarship conducted at Harvard, the back page of an official FAS campaign booklet showcased… vector addition.
Around the Ivies
Ivy grows on Harvard's Memorial Church on a warm August day.
Serving Up CVS
Looking for reasonably priced froyo at 3 a.m.? CVS offers Ben and Jerry's brand froyo for a mere $5.79 a pint.
Strong Roots
Berryline has been deeply rooted in Harvard Square for six long years.
Just Peachy
A swirl of J.P. Licks's Peach X froyo, enjoyed at its best in a plastic Boston Red Sox cap.
Working in the Early Evening Heat
Workers talk near and walk through a Mill Street entrance to Old Leverett at around 6:30 p.m. Friday. Temperatures were still around 90 degrees in the area as they wrapped up the day's electrical and demolition work.
Three Days In
Donald H. Pfister sits for an interview in his new University Hall office Friday, just three days after being appointed interim Dean of the College.
The Front Desk
Mustapha Jorti (right), the Inn at Harvard's front desk manager, works alongside his assistant front desk manager, Mohamed Medjahed (center), on the hotel's last day of operation. At left, a worker with an outside consulting company dismantles the front desk computers.