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Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

Historic portrait of Henry Clarke Warren

Features | March-April 2023

Henry Clarke Warren

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

by David Gauld

Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge

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Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge Named Hasty Pudding’s 2023 Man and Woman of the Year

The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.

by Nancy Walecki

Illustration of Cambridge in deep snow, not cleaned up

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2023

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Henry Rosovsky

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2023

Farewell

Remembering Henry Rosovsky

Photo of the rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s

Features | January-February 2023

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Elif Batuman

Montage | January-February 2023

The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century

On Elif Batuman’s fictions

by Beth Blum

Cover of Chinese edition of book, Harvard A to Z

The College Pump | January-February 2023

Bookish

Course catalog redux, a Chinese take on Harvard “glitz and glamour,” and the mathmetician-movie buff

by Primus VI

Official portrait of Lawrence H. Summers

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2022

Portraying Larry Summers

Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

by John S. Rosenberg

Humorous illustration of campus police seeing late-night daters’ final kiss

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2022

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

George Reisner, 1924

Features | November-December 2022

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian