The College Pump

Aerial view of modern high-rise buildings surrounded by greenery and city skyline.

Which Harvard Architecture Stands the Test of Time?

In a sea of red brick, the Science Center and Peabody Terrace make their mark.

by Primus VI

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.”

<em>&quot;Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.&quot;</em>

A Peal Before Leaving

Question: “What was I, a young American student of medicine and electrical engineering—and an observant Jew—doing in the...