We Were Students Once...

Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer

by Primus VI

Father and Son, and E.E. Cummings

What one undergraduate learned

by James C. Beck

Off the Shelf

John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more

A Tribute to Harry Lewis

Former students, friends, family, and colleagues gather to celebrate Harry Lewis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

by Jonathan Shaw

From the Archives: We Remember World War I

Firsthand accounts of Harvard men and women who lived through it, 100 years after the United States entered the Great War

by Adam Goodheart

Spring Sports, Spider Man

Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more

by Primus VI

86 Across

A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.

Entrances and Exits

Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range

by Primus VI

The Polaroid Moment

Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston

by John S. Rosenberg

John Adams at Harvard

What he learned and what he made of it

by Richard Alan Ryerson

Soldiers, When Young

A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.

by Primus VI