Harvard History
Stories that explore the institution’s rich history, from archival moments to evolving traditions.
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
Over the River Dept.
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
by Primus VI
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge Are Hasty Pudding’s Man and Woman of the Year
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Farewell
Remembering Henry Rosovsky
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
