Students & Alumni

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

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.

An illustration of Harvard Yard with a superimposed rendering of a youthful male figure contemplating his place at the College

Features | September-October 2019

Throw Your Fastball

A life lesson from Willie Banks

by Chad M. Oldfather

Features | May-June 2019

America’s Great Modern Justice

A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.

by Lincoln Caplan

Harvard History & Traditions |

Excavating 1968

The premiere of an alumnus’s film about a seminal year at Harvard and beyond 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Features | March-April 2019

Echoes of 1969

Recalling a time of trial, and its continuing resonances

Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.

Features | November-December 2018

The Players

How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard

by George Howe Colt

philip Johnson standing confidently

Montage | November-December 2018

The Devil and Philip Johnson

A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

The College Pump | November-December 2018

Hand-Crafted

Messenger from the past

by Primus VI

Treasure | July-August 2018

Gymsuits, Pre-Spandex

Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged

by Sophia Nguyen

Students & Alumni |

An Imposing Honor for Harvard’s First Black Graduate

The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.

by Jean Martin