Students & Alumni
Lord Mayor for a Day
Harvard's Michael Mainelli, the 695th Lord Mayor of London.
by Robert Sprung
The Education of a Harvard Lawyer
An alumna looks back.
by Nancy Boxley Tepper
Likenesses
A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage
by Primus VI
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
A Science Is Born
The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard
by Harry R. Lewis
Rebelling and Expelling
The Class of 1823 goes rogue and gets booted.
by Jacob Sweet
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
by Matteo Wong
Graduation, Socially Distanced
Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies
by John S. Rosenberg
The Coronavirus Spring
Campus and Commencement without people, social distance, Dr. Fauci, and a meaningful password
by Primus VI
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
by Nell Porter Brown
The “Messy Experiment”
From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute
by Susan Ware