In Harvard Yard just before noon today (Feb. 15), there was ice, slush, wind, a 2-degree wind chill - and there was Scarlett Johansson.

The 22-year-old actress, at Harvard to be feted as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year, set off on a 15-minute tour ready for the cameras, though not for the weather. She was hatless, all the better to show her bundled high vivid blond hair and sparkling small earrings. With gloveless hands tucked into her sleeves, Johansson defied winter in a waist-length black jacket, pipe stem black slacks, and narrow black shiny flats.

Leading the tour was Hasty Pudding player J. Patrick Coyne ‘07, a Quincy House history and literature concentrator from Cleveland. Outside Harvard Hall, near Johnston Gate, Johansson had two questions for him first: “Why wasn’t my application accepted? Where can I apply to a graduate program?”

Passing Hollis Hall, the husky-voiced actress confessed, “I have a feeling my SAT scores wouldn’t cut it,” - but that her mother was still telling her it was not too late for a college degree. (”Thanks, Mom,” she said.)