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When you enter the Yard??s gates, you’ll be greeted by deep history, vast e-mail flows, great diversity, and of course the unexpected. Prepare for the year ahead by making sure you own these carefully selected items, whether you bring them from home or buy them at shops in the Square...
July brings the end of my half a lifetime of residence and rootedness in Harvard Yard??first as an undergraduate (1978-82) and then as a faculty-member (1991-2009). Next I will become chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, where I have been given the resources to help build the world’s greatest department. Though I am happy to go there, I am sad to leave the ground where the sapling vines of my spirit have become trunks supporting the growth of others...
...relics of the ’60s, student activism at Harvard is anything but history. SLAM, the Student Labor Action Movement, has become increasingly vocal in the past few months. Harvard students are likely to encounter SLAM’s campaign against layoffs on an average stroll through the yard??perhaps in the form of student activists holding signs, waving banners, or sporting screen-printed t-shirts branded with SLAM’s polemical slogan, “Greed is the New Crimson.” As the school year draws to a close, the campaign has been...
Another girl explained “All the freshmen live in the yard??Harvard takes the time to match you up with a good roommate, so you’ll get along really well…no matter where you get assigned, you’ll love it!” That’s right, don’t tell them about the Union dorms yet. They’ll find out soon enough in August, when they rip open their dorm assignments and wonder what ‘Hurlbut’ means...
...problem, to his mind, was a failure of the College community. Harvard was outgrowing life long centered around the Yard. Yet in bursting the Yard??s bounds, something essential was being lost: the physical proximity and social interaction with faculty and fellow students that not only enriched the College experience, but which were an integral part...