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

Lessons in Surprise

What Admiral Yamamoto learned at Harvard, and a new community garden

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.