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Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

"Doonesbury" comic nominating Duke for Harvard president

The College Pump | May-June 2024

Honorands Three

Three honorands connected in time through Wilbur and Orville Wright, the fathers of aviation

by Primus VI

A cartoon of lobster and other foods for Harvard reunions

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2024

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

University Hall occupied by student protestors, April 9, 1969

The College Pump | March-April 2024

Darker Days

The current disquiets compared to Harvard’s Vietnam-era traumas

by Primus VI

Photograph of Winthrop Bell 1910

Features | March-April 2024

Winthrop Bell

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

by Jason Bell

Illustration of Carpenter Center

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2024

Yesterday’s News

The Carpenter Center celebrated

The stylish Charlie Davidson

The College Pump | January-February 2024

Square Scribes

Harvard Square retailers’ tales—and a changing local scene

by Primus VI

Portrait of Zelia Nuttall, 1880

Features | January-February 2024

Zelia Nuttall

Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)

by Merilee Grindle

Cartoon of John Harvard figure ice skating at Harvard Law School

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2024

Yesterday’s News

Harvard Law School: the skating rink

Illustration for Harvard Lampoon cover showing a Harvard-Yale football game rendered in the style of the famous Bayeux Tapestry

The College Pump | November-December 2023

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

by Craig Lambert

Charles Brickley, 1914

Features | November-December 2023

Harvard’s G.O.A.T.

Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial

by Dick Friedman