The College Pump
Tips of the Hat(s)
On regalia, a Jack-of-all-trades retirement, and a Bok’s office bon mot.
by Primus VI
"Listen my children..."
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." And you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul...
Harvard in Epigram
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Word of Fred R. Shapiro, J.D. ’77 (’80), in these...
Bell Swap
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." From the moment they first spoke in Cambridge, in February...
The Opposite of “If”
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Found in the University Archives, a cache of English-department...
Clergy Roar like Lions
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912) was a transcendentalist...
Yet More Expansion?
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Has Harvard staked out another new campus? On February 2...
Curl Up with the Cloud-gatherer
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." This spring Harvard University Press publishes the...
Blockheads
“Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.” Benjamin Franklin’s father thought of sending his boy...
Branded
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." “Does Harvard ‘brand’ matter...
Lessons from the Limelight
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Learning from Performers debuted 30 years ago. Jerold S...