The College Pump
Scoundrels, Then and Now
On con men, Mark Twain, and the powers of the Harvard name
by Primus VI
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"...
Our Obedient Servant
Robert Shenton, Ph.D. '62, who died in February (see "Brevia," May-June, page 72), was secretary of the Governing Boards from 1971 to 1991...
Oratorical Exchanges
On the fourth day of a celebration of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, on November 5 through 8, 1886, Professor James Russell...
Sun and Shade
When daylight-saving time returns on April 2, not a moment too soon, Harvardians emerging into the sunlight may wish to visit the restored...
Waving the Flag
IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song called "Good Night Harvard." "Good-Night...