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Faculty Room Facelift
The Faculty Room, the soaring second-floor space at the center of University Hall—designed by Charles Bulfinch, A.B. 1781 (who provided his services in exchange for tuition payments for son Thomas, class of 1814—an early legacy!) and completed in 1815—is …
Issue: March-April 2025
President Alan M. Garber Welcoming Remarks and Convocation Address
As delivered Welcome, members of the Harvard College Class of 2028. Welcome from every continent save Antarctica. Welcome from each state in the Union—and from DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Like me, fifty-seven of you hail from the Land of …
“Study-Ins” and Studying
The bullhorn-led responsive chanting and shouted epithets that marked the fall semester a year ago—after the Hamas attack on Israel and resulting war in Gaza and beyond—gave way to something quieter, and subtly different, this autumn: pro-Palestinian …
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Issue: January-February 2025
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 29
FRIDAY MAY 29 is Radcliffe Day, and this year’s festivities will include the panel “A Decade of Decisions and Dissents: The Roberts Court, from 2005 to Today,” moderated by Margaret H. Marshall Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78 at 10:30 A.M. The Radcliffe Day …
Write It!
Why not carve out time for a writing retreat through The Muse & The Marketplace? Organized by Boston’s nonprofit creative-writing center Grub Street, the annual conference is held online this year during two April sessions. During week one, April 21-25, …
Issue: March-April 2021
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College Admits 13.9 Percent of Early Applicants
The College has admitted 13.9 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2024, up slightly from 13.4 percent admitted from that pool last year. Of the 6,424 students who applied early to the 2024 class, 895 were admitted. The numbers were 935 and …
Songs of Past and Future
When Julia Riew ’22 was growing up, everyone around her knew that she would write musicals. In elementary school, she turned recess into drama class, directing her friends in made-up plays like High School Moosical . After school, she sang in the St. …
Issue: September-October 2025