Harvard History & Traditions


We Were Students Once...

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

by Primus VI

A Tribute to Harry Lewis

Former students, friends, family, and colleagues gather to celebrate Harry Lewis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

by Jonathan Shaw

From the Archives: We Remember World War I

Firsthand accounts of Harvard men and women who lived through it, 100 years after the United States entered the Great War

by Adam Goodheart

Spring Sports, Spider Man

Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more

by Primus VI

Yesterday's News

An elephant race, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Harvard’s Class Gap

The chasm between elite academia and working-class Americans—and how to bridge it

by Richard D. Kahl...

The Lost Museum

Recreating the Philosophy Chamber

by Jonathan Shaw , Jennifer Carling

“How War Has Made Us”

Drew Faust, in Ho Chi Minh City, on the Civil War and the Vietnam War

by John S. Rosenberg

86 Across

A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.

Yesterday's News

A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Entrances and Exits

Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range

by Primus VI