Harvard History & Traditions

A bride and groom in formal attire cut a tiered cake at a candlelit wedding reception table.

The College Pump | May-June 2025

We Were Students Once...

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

by Primus VI

The Globetrotters warming up before the game.

Harvard History & Traditions |

Lampoon Battles Globetrotters in Hoops

The Harlem team plays the student humor publication in the streets of Harvard Square.

Richard Greener

Harvard History & Traditions |

First Black Alumnus’s Papers Found

Papers of Richard Greener, A.B. 1870, have been found in Chicago.

Kay Ryan and Derek Bok

University News |

Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate

Derek Bok and Kay Ryan featured at the 2012 Phi Beta Kappa exercises

The 1946 team: Coach Stahl stands at left in back; Don Swegan wears #14, third from left. [Jack Clark apparently missed the photo.]

Sports & Athletics |

Hoopsters from 1946 Redux

Reminiscences from the Crimson's last NCAA tournament turn

1946 Harvard basketball team

Harvard History & Traditions |

When Harvard Shot 10 of 72

The basketball team’s brief NCAA appearance in 1946

Led by professor of history Maya Jasanoff (from left), Harvard faculty Martin Puchner, Ann Pearson, Hopi Hoekstra, and David Charbonneau participate in Conversations @ FAS, a panel discussion that imagines how current trends may transform the way Harvard faculty teach and carry out their research in the future. The discussion was held in the Tsai Auditorium of CGIS South at Harvard University.

University News |

Imagining Harvard at 400

"Young superstars" from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences speculate about Harvard circa 2036

Kahlil Gibran's likeness of Harvard president Charles William Eliot, drawn in 1910

The College Pump | March-April 2012

Cold Meets Flame

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

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2012

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard's history

Harvard’s 1912 baseball team. Wingate (front at left, holding cap) was Fenway’s first batter.

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2012

Fenway Park’s First Pitch

Account of the first game at Fenway Park in 1912, Harvard vs. Red Sox

by Christopher Klein

Peter Sellars

The College Pump | January-February 2012

Under the Bar

An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House