Students & Alumni
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
by Primus VI
Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
Why this “sovereign prince of the English language” touched the president’s heart
by Lincoln Caplan
Widsom of the Aged
Alumni perspectives on Harvard in crisis, and signs of a changed community
by Primus VI
John H. Finley Jr.
Brief life of a masterful House Master: 1904-1995
by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli
Dename Winthrop?
Harvard’s process for considering denaming requests is tested for the first time.
by Nina Pasquini
Historic Humor
University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials
by Nina Pasquini
Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin
Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018
by David A. Kring
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.
by Craig Lambert
Archibald Henry Grimke
Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930
by Kerri K. Greenidge
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
by Marilynn Richtarik
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld