Harvard Square

As Musk/Trump administration pulls grants from universities, Harvard freezes hiring

By adamg - Mon, 03/10/2025 - 4:59pm

Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of adolescent medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, posts the relevant part of the memo from Harvard: Read more.

Been awhile since a ceiling tile crashed to the platform at Harvard on the Red Line, huh?

By adamg - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 8:50pm

NBC Boston reports a ceiling tile crashed to a platform at Harvard. No injuries at least. Read more.

You can always tell a Harvard man, you just can't tell him what 'standing' means in federal court

By adamg - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 12:53pm

A federal judge today dismissed a suit against Harvard University by tenÂ alums who demanded they be reimbursed their tuition andÂ room and board because Harvard had completely devalued the worth of theirÂ diplomas by not doing enough to stamp out anti-Semitism on campus, indeed, had made them ashamed to admit they went to school in Cambridge. Read more.

The man who died from a ghost story at Harvard

By adamg - Sat, 02/22/2025 - 11:18am

New England Folklore recounts the tale of an 18th-century Harvard student who supposedly went into convulsions and died when a classmate played a prank on him and came into his room one night covered in a sheet - after the student had earlier decried the existence of ghosts during a late-night ghost-story session. Read more.

Today's profiles in courage: Charlie Baker, Harvard and UMass Boston

By adamg - Thu, 02/06/2025 - 12:40pm

The president yesterday signed one of his executive orders, this time to ban transgender athletes. Our Charlie Baker, now head of the NCAA, immediately complied, expressing gratitude for "a clear, national standard" he can get behind. Read more

Two of Musk's junior-grade government destroyers are students here in the Hub

By adamg - Tue, 02/04/2025 - 1:51pm

You may have heard about the barely pubescent kids currently trying to run rampant through government computer systems that handle trillions of dollars in transactions and data on millions of Americans. Read more.

Speeder slams into six parked cars, flips own in Harvard Square carnage

By adamg - Thu, 01/30/2025 - 1:46pm

The Crimson reports on the Wednesday night crash on JFK Street. No injuries reported.

One way or another, the gang knew it would have its pound of flesh

By adamg - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 5:13pm

A roving UHub photographer snapped this turkey mob outside 1050 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge today, then scurried away before the feathers flew.

Landlord booting Harvard Square's last dive bar, which had been open since the 1950s

By adamg - Sat, 12/14/2024 - 5:29pm

Cambridge Day reports on the impending end of Whitney's, which opened on JFK Street when it was still called Boylston Street.

Harvard Yard closed to the public after vandalism of John Harvard statue, administration building

By adamg - Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:13pm

Harvard acted to bar outsiders from the Yard after somebody, apparently not affiliated with the university, vandalized the statue and the building with red paint as a protest against Israeli actions in Gaza, the Crimson reports.

Oh, poor beleagured RFK, Jr.

By adamg - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 9:58am

A small group of people yesterday protested the "censorship" of the bookstores in Harvard and Porter squares for allegedly refusing to carry any books by or about brainworm-adled whale-head enthusiast and Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cambridge Day quoted one protester as saying, sure, she could just ask a bookstore to carry some of the dead-bear fan's tomes, but bookstores should know better and stock books she might serendipitously come across.

Bicyclist killed when truck driver tries to make turn at same time as her in Harvard Square, police say

By adamg - Fri, 06/07/2024 - 7:44pm

A Florida woman on a bicycle turning from Mt. Auburn Street onto DeWolfe Street in Harvard Square around 4:30 p.m. died when hit by a box truck whose driver was going in the same direction but then decided to make a turn, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office say. Read more.

Havard president tells Harvard Yard encampers: Move out now or face getting kicked out of school

By adamg - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 11:39am

The Crimson reports Harvard's interim president sent out a campus-wide e-mail today threatening students in a Harvard Yard encampment with "involuntary leave" for students who don't pack up now. Read more.

Dupe in Harvard bomb hoax sentenced to three years probation

By adamg - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 9:31am

A federal judge yesterday sentenced William Giordani of Manchester, NH to three years probation for the way he showed up at the Harvard Science Center with a bag full of Roman candles, bottle rockets and wires in it at the bidding of somebody who hired him through Craigslist - who then called police at Harvard seven times to warn them that bombs had been planted around the campus and to demand a large Bitcoin payment to keep them from going off. Read more.

Harvard shuts Harvard Yard for the week

By adamg - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:50am

Only people with Harvard IDs will be allowed in, in anticipation of Gaza-related protests, the Crimson reports.

WBZ reports students at Emerson and MIT have set up encampments.

Boston area left with just one book bound in human skin after Harvard removes remains of woman's back from a book in its collection

By adamg - Thu, 03/28/2024 - 9:37am

The Crimson reports the university, after long and careful consideration of the sort only Harvard can mount after ten years of criticism, has "removed the human skin binding from a book held in Houghton Library and apologized for 'past failures in its stewardship of the book'." Read more.

Earlier: Read more.

Harvard Book Store cancels plans for Prudential expansion

By adamg - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 4:11pm

The Harvard Book Store announced today it just couldn't make the numbers work and has called off plans to open a second shop across the river at the Prudential Center: Read more.