The Harvard College House system is the foundation of the undergraduate experience at the College. Patterned after the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, the Houses keep Harvard’s traditions alive, provide robust social and cultural opportunities, and forge a meaningful link between living and learning. Visit the links below to connect with House life now and in the past.

Tradition

The History of Harvard’s House System influences the present

Dive into the history of the Adams House pool
Romantic, fun exciting… and a little naughty

Lowell House Bells
Harvard’s most appealing house ritual

(Three hundred) Six(ty) degrees of Eliot House
Get a panoramic view of one of Harvard’s original Houses
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A look inside: Dunster House
The goat roast (yes, goat roast)
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Living and Learning

Harvard’s House System as an informal “classroom” for learning

(Not quite) 100 things to do in Adams House
Have a chat in front of FDR’s old fireplace, print a love poem at the Bow & Arrow Press, or host a Shakespeare reading in the Adams House Pool Theatre
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Eliot’s favorite poems
From “somewhere I have never traveled,” “To the River Charles”
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The Lowell Speeches
Fifty seniors. Fifty days. Five minutes per speech. Go.
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Pride

Harvard’s House System as a hallmark of the Harvard College experience

I Love C(urrier)-Haus
“Do I really have to graduate, or can I just stay here for the rest of my life?”

The Dunster Network
How far would you go to get what you want?

Multiply
Leverett House students don’t die, they multiply

Pfabuloso
There’s only one way to describe PfoHo...