The College Pump
Scoundrels, Then and Now
On con men, Mark Twain, and the powers of the Harvard name
by Primus VI
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
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
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.”
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...