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Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

by Nina Pasquini

Photo of the rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s

Features | January-February 2023

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

George Reisner, 1924

Features | November-December 2022

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian

Photograph of William Randall playing guitar in his Lowell House room, c. 1970-1971

The College Pump | September-October 2022

Learners, Grizzled and Downy

An affecting reunion, and Houghton Library accessible to all

by Primus VI

Student photograph of Earl Brown in 1920, and baseball team photo with Brown in 1924

Features | March-April 2022

Earl Brown

Brief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980

Photographic portrait of James Agee

The College Pump | September-October 2021

Origin Stories

Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence

by Primus VI

Portrait photograph of Sidney Verba

The College Pump | July-August 2021

Sidney Verba, and a Classy Class Reporter

Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives

by Primus VI

Drawing of a female mallard flying down to her nest on a Harvard rooftop with food for her seven ducklings, each bearing a letter on its chest spelling out H-A-R-V-A-R-D.

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2021

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Photograph of Harvard economist Martin Feldstein

The College Pump | May-June 2021

Wisdom of the Sages

Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles

by Primus VI

Mark Steele illustration of Lowell House’s bells being rung for the first time by a giant hand stretching from a cloud to swing the detached belfry.

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2021

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

A drawing showing a large crossbar being hauled into place between two tall smokestacks to make a giant "H" for "Harvard"

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2021

Yesterday's News

Headlines from Harvard’s history