The College Pump
Scoundrels, Then and Now
On con men, Mark Twain, and the powers of the Harvard name
by Primus VI
Communication Skills
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Watching President George W. Bush at the podium, one might...
Artificial Wants
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Josiah Quincy, A.B. 1790, LL.D. 1824, drafted the following...
Jimmy Rushing sings the Harvard Blues, with difficulty
I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time...
Weathering Heights
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." John Harvard Mall may not be on physical heights exactly, but...
Civil Soldiers
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The athletic fields of Harvard lie near the Charles River in...
Door Speak
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Historian and dean for undergraduate education Susan Pedersen...
Installation Roistering
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we...
Bunk, in Faded Gingham
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Harvard's arrogance, and its just rewards, are the topics of...
Overseers Dis Gov
It is the disquieting habit of the compilers of the twenty-fifth-anniversary reports of College classes to publish a photograph of a class...