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Students & Alumni |

Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

by Nina Pasquini

Photograph of Peter Ashton and field team in Borneo

The College Pump | January-February 2020

From Borneo to Rodeo

Trekking, shuttling, and semi-friending

by Primus VI

A Hasty Pudding Theatricals poster from 1910 showing a debutante curtseying

Treasure | January-February 2020

Pudding Pots & Parody

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

Paul Lee (left) holds the Little Red Flag replica in 2012. Also shown (clockwise from top left) are Spencer Ervin, Jeffrey Lee, and Stephen Goodhue.

Alumni | November-December 2019

Seeking a Flag-Bearer!

Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?

An early group photo of Band members wearing bowler hats

Performing & Recorded Arts |

A Hundred Years of Music

The Harvard Band celebrates a century.

by Sol Hurwitz

Unhappy bell-ringer replaced by an automated bell switch sits high in the steeple looking out over part of the Harvard campus below

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2019

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.

The College Pump | November-December 2019

Life Lessons

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

by Primus VI

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

Treasure | September-October 2019

It’s a Small World

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

Drawing of Alan Lomax singing in Harvard Yard

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2019

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Portrait photo of admissions stalwart Dwight Miller

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2019

Admissions, through the Ages

College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph of Julie Chung and Drew Pendergrass

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2019

New Fellows

The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.