Houghton Library Open House Eight Concrete Suggestions for Opportunities for Personal and Social Historical Tours by Crimson Key Society Arts and Other Events WELCOME PARENTS & FAMILIES 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Canaday Hall B-Entry 4D Helping Freshmen to Make the Most of Transformation: Residential Student Life 11 a.m.-12 p.m. & 1-2 p.m., Parking Information 2D P John Harvard Statue, Harvard Yard 3C Thank you for joining us for Freshman Family Weekend. Over the next two days, as you spend time on Visit Houghton Library, Harvard College’s principal their Precious Four Years at Harvard at Harvard College Friday, October 27 Complimentary Parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street 9-10 a.m., Science Center D 3C Join us for an hour-long tour highlighting the history campus, you will have the opportunity to glimpse the transformative power of Harvard College that our students repository for rare book and manuscripts, for a tour 2:15-3:15 p.m., Science Center Lecture Hall C 3C Garage for those driving to campus from 5 p.m. Thursday Professor Richard Light, Pforzheimer Professor of Learn about how the College supports the personal, of Harvard, from its inception in 1636 to the present, Intramural Spelling Bee to 10 a.m. Sunday. Upon arriving at the garage, notify the experience each and every day. The opportunity to visit classes and engage in discussions with faculty members and view of collections with staff. brought to you by Harvard’s own Crimson Key Society. 4:30 p.m., Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 3D Parking Services Monitor at the booth you are attending the will offer you a sense of where the intellectual transformation begins for our students. At the same time, the Teaching and Learning and author of Making the social, and intellectual transformation of our students Historical Tours by Crimson Join the Freshman IM Program for its annual rendition Freshmen Family Weekend to receive an access ticket for the many receptions and the Harvard football game will give you a chance to see how the College community comes Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, will through a robust vision of student life, student Class of 2021 Tailgate Luncheon Key Society 3C of the Bee-Scripps Spelling Bee, where first-year facility. The access ticket will be valid for both pedestrian and together in ways that support the social transformation of our students. And finally, we hope that your time on share findings about having a successful freshman involvement, and residential education. Presented by 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Gordon Indoor Track 5A 11 a.m. -12 p.m. & 1-2 p.m., John Harvard Statue, Harvard Yard students will show off their spelling skills to classmates vehicular entry. campus meeting other students and their families will open a window to the rich diversity of experiences and year drawn from over two thousand interviews with Katie O’Dair (Dean of Students) and Alex Miller Grab a bite to eat with freshman deans, proctors, fellow Join the Crimson Key Society for an hour-long tour and families perspectives that contribute to personal transformation for our students. We hope you have a chance to take Harvard undergraduates over many years. Light will (Associate Dean of Student Engagement). parents, and students at this festive and casual BBQ highlighting the history of Harvard, from its inception Shabbat Dinner and Conversation with Library Access advantage of all of these opportunities and we wish you a memorable weekend. present eight specific and actionable suggestions for Harvard Museum of Natural tailgate prior to the football game. Parents and family in 1636 to the present. Dean of Undergraduate Education For the duration of Freshman Family Weekend, families are freshmen and their parents to consider when they History Open House members are guests of the Office of Student Life. Freshman SeminarFaculty Presentation: Jay Harris invited to visit campus libraries during regular library hours think about “making the most of the many wonderful 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 26 Oxford Street 2D Harvard Football v. Dartmouth Child Health in America with 7 p.m., Harvard Hillel, Rosovsky Hall, 4C (see library.harvard.edu/find-library for library hours). Please Friday, October 27 opportunities at Harvard.” Be sure to see Harvard’s famed Blaschka Glass 12 p.m. Kickoff, Harvard Stadium 5A 52 Mt. Auburn Street Harvard Art Museums Open House Judith Palfrey bring your parent button. Libraries include Cabot Science 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 32 Quincy Street Harvard Today and Words of Flowers, Marine Life in the Putnam Gallery, and the new Discounted $5 tickets available at Freshman Family A traditional Jewish Sabbath dinner, followed by a Library, Botany Library, Ernst Mayr Library, Fine Arts Library, Welcome Center & Lounge 3D 3D 11 a.m-12 p.m., Science Center A 3C Explorations of Microbial Life. Open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 Weekend Registration, at the Tailgate Luncheon, and conversation with Dean of Undergraduate Education Fung Library, Harvard-Yenching Library, Houghton Library, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Cambridge Queen’s Head, Memorial Hall Free admission with parent button. Discover the rich The Freshman Seminar Program was inaugurated in Wisdom for Families Check in to collect the schedule, campus map, family 4-5:30 p.m., Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall 3D p.m., 361 days/year. Admission free with family button. at the Athletic Box Office (show Family Button). Also Professor Jay Harris and current students, on the Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library, Pusey Library, Robbins collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur 1959 to provide freshmen with a unique learning buttons, open class listings and other helpful resources. Welcoming remarks from Drew Gilpin Faust, available in advance by ordering online at tickets.go- undergraduate experience at Harvard. Library of Philosophy , Tozzer Library, Widener Library*. M. Sackler Museums, newly united in a state-of-the-art experience through close and early interaction with Peabody Museum of Archaeology Discounted $5 tickets to the Saturday football game vs. President of Harvard University, and Rakesh Khu- crimson.com and clicking on the Dartmouth game. Use Performing Arts facility designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. members of the faculty. Judith Palfrey is the T. Berry and Ethnology Open House *Outside of the guided tours in Widener, regular stacks access policy Dartmouth will be available for purchase. rana, Danoff Dean of Harvard College. With the help PROMO CODE: Class2021 to purchase $5 tickets.. Harvard Foundation for Intercultural Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 11 Divinity Avenue 2D Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available through applies to visitors (no entry unless accompanied by their student). of administrators and the Immediate Gratification Ceramics Program Tour All Day and Race Relations Open House School, Director of the Children’s International Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology offers the Harvard Box Office: Temporary location Farkas Players, Tom Dingman, Dean of Freshmen, will host a 1 p.m., 224 Western Avenue 6A Hall, 10 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, from 12-6 p.m., Visit classes (schedule available at registration desk) 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Thayer Hall, Basement Room 2 3D Pediatric Center for the Department of Medicine at free admission with family button. See online schedule Accessibility Information lively program highlighting topics that typically arise Tour the ceramics studio and observe artists at work. Tuesday through Sunday. Call 617-496-2222 or visit The Harvard Foundation is an intercultural, interethnic, the Children’s Hospital, Boston and Faculty Dean at for free tours by students. Harvard College is committed to being accessible to all who Morning Prayers between freshmen and Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) Tour ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice. Please note some tick- 8:45-9 a.m., Holden Chapel 3C and interreligious student office whose purpose is to work Adams House. Harvard Art Museums Open House participate in our programs and attend our events. Individuals their parents. Panelists: 2 p.m., Batten Hall, 125 Western Avenue 6A eted events sell out before Freshman Family Weekend. Daily service of music, prayer, and a brief address given with undergraduate students of all backgrounds to improve 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 32 Quincy Street 3D with disabilities requiring accommodations or inquiring about Your Student@Lamont Tour • Anya Bassett, Director of Undergraduate Studies The Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) serves as a resource • Matt Keegan: Replicate, 12-6 p.m., Carpenter Center accessibility should contact the Office of Student Life at 617- by a member or friend of the University. Space is limited. intercultural understanding on campus through scholarly 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Lamont Library 4D Free admission with parent button. Discover the rich and Senior Lecturer in Social Studies for students from across Harvard interested in for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street. 495-8663. programs and cultural celebrations, and to recognize the See rare maps, books, and digitized objects from collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur 3D Peabody Museum of Archaeology • Benny Belvin II, Associate Director of Career Services, entrepreneurship and innovation. The programming • Spring Awakening, 7:30 p.m., Loeb Experimental contributions of both national and international figures special collections, talk with curators, and take a Office of Career Services M. Sackler Museums, newly united in a state-of-the-art and Ethnology Open House offered by the i-lab is designed to help students grow Theater, Visit www.bit.ly/2hY7JkW to reserve 3B Athletic Facility Access • Craig Rodgers, Counselor/Psychologist, Bureau of facility designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 11 Divinity Avenue 2D whose works and deeds have served to improve the quality student-led tour to find out what a college library is their ventures at any stage of development and covers your free tickets.