Commentary

University Hall occupied by student protestors, April 9, 1969

The College Pump | March-April 2024

Darker Days

The current disquiets compared to Harvard’s Vietnam-era traumas

by Primus VI

A conceptual illustration of a student seated in a classroom facing an imagined image of herself in a different environment with flowers and rocks

University People | January-February 2024

Is Pedagogy About Us?

Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom

by Isabella Cho

The stylish Charlie Davidson

The College Pump | January-February 2024

Square Scribes

Harvard Square retailers’ tales—and a changing local scene

by Primus VI

Portrait of Zelia Nuttall, 1880

Features | January-February 2024

Zelia Nuttall

Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)

by Merilee Grindle

Cartoon of John Harvard figure ice skating at Harvard Law School

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2024

Yesterday’s News

Harvard Law School: the skating rink

Letters | January-February 2024

Harvard Sundered

Amid the Middle Eastern crisis, preserving room for reasoned debate

Letters | January-February 2024

Cambridge 02138

Letters about the Middle East war and campus upheavals, the energy transition, legacies, and more

Letters | November-December 2023

Cambridge 02138

Campus discourse, ethics education, affirmative action

Illustration for Harvard Lampoon cover showing a Harvard-Yale football game rendered in the style of the famous Bayeux Tapestry

The College Pump | November-December 2023

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

by Craig Lambert

Charles Brickley, 1914

Features | November-December 2023

Harvard’s G.O.A.T.

Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial

by Dick Friedman

Humorous illustration of Harvard Yard with Widener Library and University Hall; between the two buildings there is a swimming pool and people enjoying the pool.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2023

Yesterday’s News

Courses in swimming pool management and table-waiting—with an eye toward summer employment