The College Pump

The Pump Celebrates Its 85th Birthday

Giving Harvard traditions their due 

by Primus VI

"...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...

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...