The College Pump

A smiling elderly man in glasses sits comfortably in a striped armchair.

Jack Reardon and Walter Cabot, Remembered

Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion

by Primus VI

Samuel Beer

Sam Beer and Charles Townsend Copeland

What made Sam Beer and Charles Townsend Copeland great

This class necktie belonged to Renny Little's father, Bertram K. Little ’23. His class colors were orange and black.

Harvard class colors and trademark clothing

A class tradition refurbished, and “Harvard Yard” threads

<em>"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by"</em>

Grazing a cow in Harvard Yard

Hollis professor of divinity Harvey Cox will lead a cow through Harvard Yard.

No. Not Yet. Never.

Varieties of rejection experience

George Martin Lane

Song for Hard Times

The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.

Drat Those Vandals!

A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley

A restorer of lost landscapes works to replicate FDR&rsquo;s suite of rooms as it looked in 1900.

FDR's Digs

A restoration is in progress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s undergraduate rooms at Harvard, and Ralph Nader sets a speech-making Guinness World Record.

Oddments

Comments about swinging doors and energy conservation, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, brain aging and a defunct drinking fountain, and the love of learning and of one’s colleagues

Conant in the Blow

Seventy years ago, on September 21, came the New England Hurricane of 1938: a.k.a. the Long Island Express...

Pay Dirt in Yard Dig

Five pieces of lead type turned up near Matthews Hall this year, a stop-the-presses flash from the past. They were unearthed by students and faculty of Anthropology 1130: “Archaeology of Harvard Yard.”