The College Pump


We Were Students Once...

Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer

by Primus VI

The Pump Overflows

Astonishing linguist Calvert Watkins

Youthful Ardors

Love Story locale, and other passionate pursuits

So Long for a Time

Baez, Dylan, and more vignettes from Harvard’s class of 1964

Combatants

A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels

x̄Hviri

"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard”—the logo, and John Harvard’s shoes

Harvard Talking

Touring Yale, trombone sextet, and talking back to John Foster Dulles

Festival Rites: The Underside

On the uses of mortarboards, and a centenarian’s update

Skull Walking

Anatomy on view, and the return of Pooh

Squirrely

How the gray squirrels came to Harvard Yard

Snuggle Time

Petting zoo on the Plaza, a Harvard/Yale man, and a late-blooming novelist