The College Pump
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
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.”
A Peal Before Leaving
Question: “What was I, a young American student of medicine and electrical engineering—and an observant Jew—doing in the...
Tough Turkeys
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Turkeys are menacing innocent students at the Business...
Vanished Acts
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Three worthy books full of Harvard references have arrived...
Joyful Noises
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Anniversaries of moment: Tops on the list is the birthday of...
The Vernacular
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Betty Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard...
Tortes in Memory
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." In her new book, The Window Shop: Safe Harbor for...
"...I don't care if I never get back."
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Baseball fan Philip J. Lowry ’71, M.B.A. ’79, of...
"Listen my children..."
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." And you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul...