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Students & Alumni |

Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

Photograph of architect H.H. Richardson’s house

The College Pump | March-April 2021

Dues to the Past

Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house

by Primus VI

A drawing showing a large crossbar being hauled into place between two tall smokestacks to make a giant "H" for "Harvard"

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2021

Yesterday's News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Formal portrait of the Board of Editors for volume 70 of the “Harvard Law Review” (1956-1957), photographed on the steps of Austin Hall. The author, only the third woman admitted to Review membership, stands in the fourth row, at upper left.

Features | January-February 2021

The Education of a Harvard Lawyer

An alumna looks back.

by Nancy Boxley Tepper

Photograph of Rob Gogan, retired recycling director and acute observer of nature on campus

The College Pump | January-February 2021

Crimson’s Mr. Green

The campus’s Mr. Green, accessing acronyms, mathematician at work, and a distracted astronomer

by Primus VI

An historic photograph from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library archives shows the 1936 exhibition on women scientists—in this case, folders of their published scholarship.

Treasure | January-February 2021

Conservative Curation

“Women in Science” on display

by Alona Bach

In Harvard Yard, workers unload gigantic heads of lettuce and other greens from a truck prominently labeled United Farm Workers as students celebrate the University's decision to support the union workers by buying only UFW-certified produce.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2020

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Master Yon Lee extends his hands in a tai chi pose.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2020

A Life in Tai Chi

The healing of Master Yon Lee

by Jacob Sweet

Historic photograph of Charles Follen Cabot, Civil War soldier, standing, in uniform

The College Pump | November-December 2020

Likenesses

A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage

by Primus VI

An image of a 10-centimeter-wide glass model of Phymactis pustulata, found in intertidal zones in the Western South Atlantic.

Museums & Collections |

“Hands On” with Fragile Glass Sea Creatures

Complementary imaging techniques combine to create 3-D models that virtual visitors can examine from any angle.

by Matteo Wong

Photograph of David Evans

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2020

Changemaker in Admissions

David L. Evans made a difference for 50 years.

by Matteo Wong