The College Pump

Herbert C. Kelman and Everett I. Mendelsohn

The College Pump | July-August 2024

Peacemakers

Two scholars’ extracurricular efforts in the Middle East

by Primus VI

The Pennoyer schoolhouse bell, from Pulham St. Mary in England, now at Leverett House

The College Pump | November-December 2012

Ipso Facto!

Of the Pennoyer bell, and Harvard Bandsman Allan R. Robinson, Latin librettist

Marden in New Zealand on his way from the farm to Wellington to try to leave for America, 1942

The College Pump | September-October 2012

Shepherds, Take Heart!

How Bill Marden got into Harvard and fulfilled the language requirement.

Mark Saltveit displays for the first (and last?) time the World Palindrome Championship trophy.

The College Pump | July-August 2012

Wow. Huh?

A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner

A replica of what may be the earliest known version of the American flag to include stars

The College Pump | May-June 2012

Salute Flag and Shack!

A star-spangled Colonial find and a book honoring Motif No. 1

Kahlil Gibran's likeness of Harvard president Charles William Eliot, drawn in 1910

The College Pump | March-April 2012

Cold Meets Flame

The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.

Peter Sellars

The College Pump | January-February 2012

Under the Bar

An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House

One of the earliest American football posters, done for <i>Harper’s</i> in 1894 by Edward Penfield. This example, in B+ condition, sold at a Swann Galleries auction August 3 in New York City for $1,320, including buyer’s premium. In 1894 Yale beat Harvard 12-4.

The College Pump | November-December 2011

The Master Leads

Robert J. Kiely on gay rights at Adams House, plus the Harvard M.B.A. Indicator

The College Pump | September-October 2011

“The Tug of History”

Reunion reflections from David Souter, and a tribute to Carroll Wood

The U.S. Postal Service on June 16 issued a first-class stamp honoring botanist Asa Gray. A natural history professor, Gray also founded the Harvard Summer School 140 years ago. The stamp shows plants that he studied as well as the words <i>Shortia galacifolia</i> in his own hand. The story of his epic quest for that plant is told at http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/838.pdf.

The College Pump | July-August 2011

Guerrillas in the Yard

Undercover training during World War II, and more on varsity ties

Monty: Check him out.

The College Pump | May-June 2011

Granny Talk

Edward Everett aids Mount Vernon; Monty aids law students; Drew Faust eyes the pay of William James.