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

The undated silhouette above is the only known portrait of Lowell.

Features | September-October 2010

Francis Cabot Lowell

Brief life of an American entrepreneur: 1775-1817

by Dan Yaeger

The Jasanoff family, clockwise from left: Sheila, Maya, Jay, Alan, and Alan's wife, Luba (holding daughter Nina)

Harvard History & Traditions |

It Runs in the Family

All four members of the Jasanoff family—Jay, Sheila, Maya, and Alan—graduated from Harvard, and now three are professors here.

Alexandra Petri

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2010

Laugh Lines

The lighter side of Harvard's Commencement

John P. "Jack" Reardon

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2010

Commencement Confetti

Notes and statistics, vital and otherwise

Alumni | July-August 2010

The Senior Members

Rose Downes Arnold ’36 and George Barner ’29 led the alumni procession.

Samuel Beer

The College Pump | January-February 2010

Two Masters

What made Sam Beer and Charles Townsend Copeland great