The College Pump
Honorands Three
Three honorands connected in time through Wilbur and Orville Wright, the fathers of aviation
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Moveable Feast
Commencement venues through the ages
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On Commencements
Emerson’s oratory backstory, somber reunion notes, and happier days
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Fancy Footwork
Engineering for runners, the John Harvard stamp, tweaking Dr. Oz
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Small-Town Roots
Professors’ humble beginnings, concentration choices, and a mini history of Harvard and Radcliffe presidents
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Memorable Mentors
Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
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Origin Stories
Bow and Arrow’s mechanic, James Agee’s creative turbulence
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Sidney Verba, and a Classy Class Reporter
Harvard’s mensch, and a record-setting recorder of Crimson lives
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Wisdom of the Sages
Wisdom from the Great Depression—plus an accomplished economist, and rowdiness on the Charles
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Dues to the Past
Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
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Crimson’s Mr. Green
The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer
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