Since 2011 College Communications has produced a unique homepage each weekday to spotlight the rich diversity of Haverford's academic programming, extracurricular offerings, campus culture, and community members' accomplishments.
Haverford faculty model academic excellence through their scholarship and an ongoing commitment to compelling, effective instruction.
Best known for railroad photography, O. Winston Link also shot promotional images of Haverford and many are in Special Collections.
“Building community through sweet potato harvest at Snipes Farm, an absolutely wonderful, knee-dirtying, spirit-filling, friendship-forming element of QuaC’s fall semester retreat!” – Annie Boggess ’12
Read one student’s reflection on the retreat.
Upgraded facilities, state-of-the-art strength training and other enhancements have helped Haverford’s teams post impressive results in recent years. But the true measure of success for Athletics is reflected in how well the program allows students to excel in both sports and academics.
“I am now able to harvest summer squash, zucchini, cucumber, eggplant, basil, mint, rosemary and several varieties of pepper on a daily basis.” —Stuart Hean ’14
Stuart Hean ’14 is working with the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship on maintaining the student garden at HCA this summer.
Bleak House, like all of Charles Dickens’s novels, was originally published in serial form. Issued monthly from March 1852 to September 1853, each of the 20 numbers in Bleak House contained 32 pages of text and two illustrations by H.K. Browne (known as “Phiz”).
The Skate House hasn’t seen any actual skaters for decades. But it’s still in use, booked for receptions and student events such as club meetings and even poetry readings.
Missed yesterday’s photo? See the Skate House back “Then“.
The Skate House, designed in 1949, is outfitted with a porch, two fireplaces and a sitting room with benches. It regularly played host to crowds of skaters back in the days when the Duck Pond could be counted on to freeze solid in winter.
Come back tomorrow to see the Skate House “Now”.
“Not only was I able to engage directly with the work of a poet I love, I was able to speak back, to bring my own voice to the poem.” – David Richardson ’12
Former WHRC DJ Jennifer C. Waits ’89 chronicles nine decades of campus broadcasting. Read “Haverford on the Radio” in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of HAVERFORD magazine »
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.