Harvard History & Traditions
Peacemakers
Two scholars’ extracurricular efforts in the Middle East
by Primus VI
John Harvard, Reader
John Harvard’s reading matter, a scholar poet, the towering John Fox
by Primus VI
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
by Marilynn Richtarik
Over the River Dept.
Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado
by Primus VI
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge Named Hasty Pudding’s 2023 Man and Woman of the Year
The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
by Nancy Walecki
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Farewell
Remembering Henry Rosovsky
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
by Felipe Pereda
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum