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

The views of Charles William Eliot and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (whose images follow) aided the descendants of immigrants in keeping out new immigrants, as depicted in Joseph Keppler’s 1893 political cartoon “Looking Backward,” from Puck.

Features | March-April 2016

Harvard’s Eugenics Era

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”

by Adam S. Cohen

Portrait of Richard Henry Dana Jr. in 1842

Montage | January-February 2016

Beyond Brahminism

How Richard  Henry Dana Jr. came to hate slavery and injustice

The College Pump | November-December 2015

Nuts

Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2015

Yesterday’s News

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

The College Pump | September-October 2015

Thrills, Baseball & Other

How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run

James M. Freeman wrote in his diary about having his picture taken in 1859

Treasure | May-June 2015

Pre-Pixel Portraits

Harvard class albums from the early days of photography, on exhibit at Pusey Library

by John S. Rosenberg

Here lies an eager patriot.

The College Pump | March-April 2015

Youthful Ardors

Love Story locale, and other passionate pursuits

See you. A much-admired pair of legs and shoes disappear into a window above the shops on Haight Street, San Francisco. The Reichardts have seen it all.

The College Pump | January-February 2015

So Long for a Time

Baez, Dylan, and more vignettes from Harvard’s class of 1964

Alumni | January-February 2015

LSD Testing in the 1950s

A researcher hopes to contact volunteer participants in “truth sera” experiments.

Robert Norton Ganz Jr. and his wife, Anne, give pride of place to his 1925 Lincoln convertible.

The College Pump | November-December 2014

Combatants

A World War I Harvard aviator, plus a Game-worthy car buff and his wheels