Throwback Thursday
#tbt: HUDS in the Early 1900s
As much as HUDS has stepped up their salad and website game this past year, eating in the dining hall still feels like a chore. However, there once was a time not too long ago when HUDS was the last word in fine dining.
#tbt: Shopping Week in Peril
While you're all enjoying the next few days of shopping week, take some time to remember that just over a decade ago this treasured period of no homework and leaving classes halfway through was in grave peril.
#tbt: Admissions Website Vandalized During Prefrosh Weekend
We can’t imagine the fallout was actually that huge. This was 2001, back when most Harvard-bound high schoolers only logged on when they wanted to ask SmarterChild why they didn’t have any real friends.
#tbt: Let Them Eat Keats
In 1955, English replaced Government as the most popular concentration among Harvard College freshmen. That’s right—back in the days before Sparknotes, hundreds of undergrads willingly signed up for English classes way before “Chick Lit” was even an option.
#tbt: Assassination Fears When Fidel Castro Visited Harvard
Who knew? Fidel Castro used to be smokin' hot.
#tbt: Ivy League Pranks
Aside from the classic prank: “I’m not rooming with you next year”—our roommates were totally kidding about that one—there have been more pranksters throughout H-Y-P history. We warn you: these Ivy Leaguers set a low bar.
#tbt: Surprising Nudist
Throwback to 1949's "mysterious nudist who supposedly took four Radcliffe girls and a woman motorist by surprise." You're a legend. Bold move in December.
#tbt: Housing Day Turned Iraq War Protests
Do you remember back in 2003 when Harvard’s Housing Day revelries ended in a massive multi-collegiate protest against the Bush administration and the War in Iraq?
