The College Pump


We Were Students Once...

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

by Primus VI

How to Beat the Heat

A race in Antarctica, a rescue on Everest, a dip into the past

Philosophic Fun

A Theory of Justice as musical comedy, and the class of ’44

“Lighthouse Thomas”

From a hole in the ground to Harvard

Statistics, No Lies

Statistically, a Harvard man—and Vigeland on MacLeish

Blessed Unexpectedly

Tennessee Williams, Mother Teresa…and Gore Vidal

Ipso Facto!

Of the Pennoyer bell, and Harvard Bandsman Allan R. Robinson, Latin librettist

Shepherds, Take Heart!

How Bill Marden got into Harvard and fulfilled the language requirement.

Wow. Huh?

A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner

Salute Flag and Shack!

A star-spangled Colonial find and a book honoring Motif No. 1

Cold Meets Flame

The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.