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The dress for faculty and graduate students can be complex. Their robes include a black hood lined on the inside with the colors of the institution from which they graduated. Their hood signifies their previous degrees, with the longest, four-foot hoods denoting holders of doctorate degrees. Harvard?...
For faculty members with a Ph.D. from other universities, their hood may also have a trimming color denoting the area in which they received their previous degree: arts, letters, humanities have white trimmings, law has purple trimmings, and medicine has green trimmings. This trimming is not found on Harvard...
Harvard Speaks! hosted a Speak-a-Thon in May in which about 15 students practiced various forms of oration, including a presentation on the history of kissing, recitations of original poetry, and monologue performances.
JAL: I have wondered that exact thing! I have no idea—as an outsider, you wonder the extent to which people actually look into applications.
The Fay Prize, which is annually awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is bestowed on the senior who has produced “the most outstanding imaginative work or original research in any field,” according to the Institute’s website.