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

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...

Fried Eggs and Bacon

Illustration by Rick Stromoski Librarians tell of a great diversity of items used as bookmarks by library patrons and later discovered...

Miss North Dakota, et al.

Pick a Harvard undergraduate almost at random and you will be astonished by the range of his or her accomplishments...

Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium

Acting out of "a sense of public duty"...

Eeded: Ew President