Harvard’s 375th Anniversary

Wet and Wonderful

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

Mackintoshed Parade

Student dispatches from a memorably wet gala: Spencer Lenfield writes about the parade, the music, and the experience; Katherine Xue notes that at a party months in the planning, nothing goes as planned; and Isabel Ruane decides that the mud makes everything more fun.

Throwback Cuisine

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

Singin’ in the Rain

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

One Year In Harvard History

sponsored by Harvard University Press

On graduation day a Senior makes the following toast at Porter’s Tavern: “The bonds of friendship, which...

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Highlights from the Print Issue

The Constancy of Change

Snapshots of Harvard’s past quarter-century , with illustrations by Mark Steele

8.11.11

Professorial Permutations

Harvard’s evolving faculties

8.19.11

The Twenty-First-Century Student

Harvard students and their lives: 1986 versus today

8.19.11

Faster, Higher, Stronger

Athletic accomplishments, highlighted

9.15.11

Building—and Buying—a Campus

The recent boom—and the future in Allston

8.19.11

The Progress of the Disciplines

Leading professors on the future of their fields

8.19.11

Harvard at 400

Visions of the University in 2036

8.19.11

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Anniversary Issues

Recall Harvard’s 350th anniversary by reading the September-October 1986 issue—we’ve put all 256 pages online. View the complete contents of the September-October 2011 issue; selected anniversary coverage is below.

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The Housing Revolution

Remembering co-residency’s trial run

2.22.12

Imagining Harvard at 400

“Young superstars” from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences speculate about Harvard circa 2036

2.17.12

Soaked, but Spirited

The 375th anniversary celebration was wet and muddy, but full of youthful spirit.

12.16.11

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Keynesian economics, solar costs, education excesses, and more

12.16.11

375 Candles: A Video

Sights and sounds of Harvard’s 375th anniversary celebration

10.27.11

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Multimedia

Harvard Square, Then and Now

This video explores 25 years of change in Harvard Square, through the eyes of small business owners.

8.23.11

The Undergraduate Through the Years

Undergraduate columns from the last quarter century capture changes as well as moments in time.

8.22.11

What Students Study

8.19.11

An interactive chart that maps trends in Harvard College students’ concentrations

Harvard Puzzle: “375”

A special 375th anniversary puzzle created by John de Cuevas ’52 and edited by Kevin Wald ’93

8.15.11

Explore the Changing Campus

8.19.11

Interactive map of new construction and renovations in the last 25 years

Photos: The Campus’s Changing Face

Images of construction projects, 1996 to present, from the pages of Harvard Magazine

8.19.11

Increasingly Global Harvard

8.25.11

The map shows the University’s growing cohort of international students.

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