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An a cappella group performs in the rain. Despite monsoon-like weather, dozens of student music and dance groups performed in Harvard Yard as part of the evening's program.

Harvard 375th anniversary student music and dance performances

After much waiting and wondering, student music and dance groups perform around the Yard for a wet but appreciative crowd.

To get the evening's dancing started, a "flash mob" of dancers performed a choreographed routine they'd rehearsed throughout the previous week. The dancers were on the steps of Widener Library and at other Yard locations. Colorful LED lighting decorated buildings around the Yard.

Harvard's 375th anniversary celebration, in words and photographs

Harvard's 375th anniversary celebration, in words and photographs

Eric Chivian, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, supplied heirloom apples from his orchard in central Massachusetts, including the Roxbury Russet, a variety that Chivian believes was once grown in Harvard Yard.

Food from Harvard's 375th anniversary celebration

Heirloom apples, "1636" ale, and a historical dining hall menu provide sustenance for the 375th anniversary gala.

Instead of commemorative T-shirts, an official 375th umbrella might have been a more appropriate souvenir for the evening.

Student voices from the 375th: an anniversary gala where nothing goes as planned

At a 375th birthday party that was months in the planning, nothing goes as planned.

by Katherine Xue

Students prepare the Eliot House elephant to appear in the 375th anniversary parade.

Student voices from the 375th: braving the rain to enjoy parade and dancing

A student account of a memorably wet 375th anniversary gala.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

A colossal confection: the red velvet cake created by Joanne Chang ’91 of Flour bakery

Student voices from the 375th: mud makes the anniversary gala more fun

An undergraduate decides that the mud makes the 375th anniversary more fun.

by Isabel Ruane

Students from the Harvard Business School (HBS) party on despite the rain. The HBS contingent in the parade carried replicas of the centennial bell from that school's 2008 anniversary.

Harvard Business School perspective on the 375th anniversary gala

A dispatch from the Business School's anniversary celebration

by Kate Dempsey St...

Quarterback Colton Chapple matches all-time Harvard record in win over Bucknell

Quarterback Chapple celebrates the 375th by matching an all-time Harvard record.

by Bethell, John T

November-December 2011 cryptic puzzle by John de Cuevas

Solve the latest creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52.

Workers assembled the cake under a tent to protect it from the rainy weather. A Harvard Dining Services truck brought over the individual sheet cakes, which form the 15-by-18-foot H-shaped cake. Sixty individual sheet cakes were baked, two per day, by Flour bakery and deep frozen at Harvard awaiting the day of the celebration.

Joanne Chang '91 creates 15-by-18-foot H-shaped red velvet birthday cake

A step by step gallery of Joanne Chang ’91 assembling the 15-by-18-foot H-shaped red velvet cake for Harvard's 375th birthday.

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria named 2012 Harvard Commencement speaker

The international affairs expert, writer, and television host holds a Harvard Ph.D. in government.

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein urges $350 billion mortgage relief program

Harvard economist urges $350-billion program to counter recession.