Harvard

Allston residents can now swim for free at the Harvard pool

Evenings during the summer. Harry Mattison has the details.

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Lying is such an ugly word

The New York Times documents what might be a conflict-of-interest scandal among certain Harvard Medical School psychiatrists, notably one who helped create a huge new market for anti-psychotic drugs in children who somehow managed not to report most of the $1.6 million he got paid by drug companies to university officials.

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Are there a lot of pregnant Harvard grads this year?

Fuffer takes a photo that seems to indicate so.

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Third Harvard student attacked this month

Tackled from behind on Grant Street around 9 a.m. by a Hispanic guy in his 20s with a prominent scar on his forehead.

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If you have $34 Billion in the bank, are you still a non-profit?

Quite a discussion over at Blue Mass Group about the possibility of taxing the endowments of Harvard ($34b, according to the Globe) and other private universities in the Commonwealth.

Note to Harvard folks: Locked-down campus wifi unavailable to visitors doesn't make you any friends in this discussion.

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Somebody's lion

Harry Mattison reports:

... Construction workers on Western Ave... have found several granite lion statues buried at the [Harvard] Science Complex site ...

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How do you separate a Harvard student from a sheep?

Harvard University Police want to find out.

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This changes everything

Geoff Edgers notes that the Harvard University Art Museums are now officially the Harvard Art Museum.

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Harvard as scofflaw

If Cambridge is going to fine a residents' group $300 for putting up fliers on city light poles, imagine how much it could make by fining Harvard for all the Harvard-related fliers around Harvard Square.

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You can always tell a Harvard man, and if he's a freshman, you can tell him what to do

J.L. Bell posts a copy of the official rules for Harvard freshmen in 1741, such as:

No Freshman shall be saucy to his Senior, or speak to him with his hat on.

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