Students & Alumni
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Admissions, through the Ages
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
by John S. Rosenberg
Throw Your Fastball
A life lesson from Willie Banks
by Chad M. Oldfather
America’s Great Modern Justice
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
by Lincoln Caplan
Echoes of 1969
Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Hand-Crafted
Messenger from the past
by Primus VI
The Players
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
by George Howe Colt
An Imposing Honor for Harvard’s First Black Graduate
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
by Jean Martin
Julian Schwinger, the Singularity
At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.
by Jonathan Shaw
Art and Activism
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch