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The honor guard displays flags before the beginning of the concert.

Thousands lined the Charles River to watch the fireworks display.

Boats gather on the Charles River to watch the fireworks display.

Over 15,000 fireworks lit up the sky above the Charles River on Monday night.

Firing tubes that have not yet been loaded with fireworks shells are seen midday Saturday.

A worker makes electrical connections to a fireworks shell that has been loaded into its firing tube midday Saturday.

The Beta Theta Pi fraternity was disbanded for two years by its local alumni association and national organization.

The graphs show the net flux of all requested undergraduate dorm transfers. Net flux is defined as the number of people requesting to move into a dorm minus the number of people requesting to move out of the dorm, nor...

A hazardous materials decontamination tent was set up in the Westgate parking lot early Tuesday morning in response to a New House bomb scare. Cambridge and MIT police eventually determined that there was never any th...

MIT and Cambridge police and firefighters coordinated the response to potential pipe bombs in New House early Tuesday morning. There was never any threat to campus safety, but the Cambridge bomb squad carried out a se...

Members of the police, fire department, and ATF wait on Amherst Alley as the Cambridge Police Bomb Unit disrupted a suspicious material on the 3rd floor of German House in New House midday on Tuesday. The material tur...

Danielle A. Hinton G, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is hooded by Chancellor W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80 and interim department head Srini Devadas in Rockwell Cage midda...

Lewin emotionally announces that this lecture is his last.

Lewin lights the third of four cigarettes he needs to generate enough small particles to demonstrate Rayleigh scattering.