The College Pump
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Cast Your Bread
Of philanthropy rewarded, broken glass, and pennies for Harvard
Tidbits, One Ringtailed
Notes on a forty-fifth-reunion report, and a telescope trespasser
Two Masters
What made Sam Beer and Charles Townsend Copeland great
Curious Colors
A class tradition refurbished, and “Harvard Yard” threads
Holy Cow
Hollis professor of divinity Harvey Cox will lead a cow through Harvard Yard.
No. Not Yet. Never.
Varieties of rejection experience
Song for Hard Times
The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.
Drat Those Vandals!
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley
FDR's Digs
A restoration is in progress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s undergraduate rooms at Harvard, and Ralph Nader sets a speech-making Guinness World Record.
Oddments
Comments about swinging doors and energy conservation, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, brain aging and a defunct drinking fountain, and the love of learning and of one’s colleagues