Students & Alumni
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Over the River Dept.
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
by Primus VI
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
by Felipe Pereda
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
by Peter Der Manuelian
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
Wisdom of the Sages
Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
by Primus VI
The Education of a Harvard Lawyer
An alumna looks back.
by Nancy Boxley Tepper