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After assignments have been made, freshman students and host families receive each other’s contact information. Host families—which usually contain at least one Harvard alum—are expected to take the initiative to reach out to their first-year students prior to the students’ arrival in Cambridge...
Hosts and students are introduced to each other for the first time at the beginning of the school year during an event hosted by the Freshman Dean’s Office...
...always ask interested graduates, friends, and colleagues—in addition to reunion classes—if they want to help welcome first-year students to Harvard,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67. “This program has been growing, and we know from testimonials that host families make the freshman year experience much richer, simply by inviting host students for home-cooked meals or introducing them to the community...
...first child was born four days before Christmas. She must have come home a day or so before Christmas. That was definitely a special Christmas...
...should be inspired by the students at Morehouse to follow suit here at Harvard. The Harvard Corporation has acquiesced to student pressure to divest in the past. In 1989, a campaign of three students ultimately led Harvard to divest from tobacco companies. In 2005, Harvard became the first university in the country to divest from Sudan, choosing to sell its holdings in PetroChina after two undergraduate students started an online divestment petition...