A moving experience
More than 1,600 undergraduates took the first step yesterday to making Harvard their home for the next four years, as they began arriving early in the morning for the ritual of freshman move-in day. The class of 2016 will occupy 13 freshman dorms in the Old Yard, and four dorms on the edge of its iron gates. As students and parents worked to unload cars brimming with clothing, furniture, and supplies, Harvard President Drew Faust and Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, made their way through the Yard to welcome students, and to calm nervous parents. “I think that’s amazing, to meet the president of the University on my first day here,” said Matt Barber ’16, of Orinda, Calif., after moving into Grays Hall. “It is one of my great pleasures and privileges to welcome students and...