Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Free Speech, the Bomb—and Donald Trump
A Harvard cardiologist on the unlikely alliances that shaped a global movement to prevent nuclear war
Over the River Dept.
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
by Primus VI
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
Learners, Grizzled and Downy
An affecting reunion, and Houghton Library accessible to all
by Primus VI
Earl Brown
Brief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980
Origin Stories
Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
by Primus VI
Sidney Verba, and a classy class reporter
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
by Primus VI
Wilbur Cross, Martin Feldstein, and Charles William Eliot
Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
by Primus VI
The third woman to make the “Harvard Law Review” looks back
An alumna looks back.