Students & Alumni

A bride and groom in formal attire cut a tiered cake at a candlelit wedding reception table.

The College Pump | May-June 2025

We Were Students Once...

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

by Primus VI

Features | July-August 2016

Nathaniel Bowditch

Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839

by Tamara Plakins ...

University News |

The Overseers and Optics

A coincidence of leadership at Harvard, at a contested moment

by John S. Rosenberg

The views of Charles William Eliot and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (whose images follow) aided the descendants of immigrants in keeping out new immigrants, as depicted in Joseph Keppler’s 1893 political cartoon “Looking Backward,” from Puck.

Features | March-April 2016

Harvard’s Eugenics Era

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”

by Adam S. Cohen

Portrait of Richard Henry Dana Jr. in 1842

Montage | January-February 2016

Beyond Brahminism

How Richard  Henry Dana Jr. came to hate slavery and injustice

The College Pump | November-December 2015

Nuts

Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout

The College Pump | September-October 2015

Thrills, Baseball & Other

How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run

Here lies an eager patriot.

The College Pump | March-April 2015

Youthful Ardors

Love Story locale, and other passionate pursuits

See you. A much-admired pair of legs and shoes disappear into a window above the shops on Haight Street, San Francisco. The Reichardts have seen it all.

The College Pump | January-February 2015

So Long for a Time

Baez, Dylan, and more vignettes from Harvard’s class of 1964

Alumni | January-February 2015

LSD Testing in the 1950s

A researcher hopes to contact volunteer participants in “truth sera” experiments.

Robert Norton Ganz Jr. and his wife, Anne, give pride of place to his 1925 Lincoln convertible.

The College Pump | November-December 2014

Combatants

A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels