Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s historyFrom the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>May-June 2020 jhj-newsbrief1915The University’s new professor...
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The College PumpPrimus VIMay-June 2020 college-pump-boats-and-coatsBy all means. Nathaniel Phillips Carleton ’51, Ph.D. ’56, a physicist-turned-astronomer who practiced his craft for many years at the...
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The “Messy Experiment”
“The Equivalents,” by Maggie Doherty, reviewed by Susan WareFrom “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe InstituteSusan WareMay-June 2020 montage-messy-experimentOn November 20,...
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Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
Ceridwen Dovey’s “Life After Truth”Nell Porter Brown Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions Reunions are practically invented for storytellers. “There’s this amazing dramatic...
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Massachusetts Hall at 300Harvard’s oldest building at 300John S. RosenbergJuly-August 2020 jhj-iconMassachusetts Hall, for many people, is Harvard. It guides visitors through Johnston Gate into what is...
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Graduation, Socially Distanced
Harvard Commencement 2020Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremoniesJohn S. RosenbergJuly-August 2020 jhj-graduation-socially-distancedThere’s nothing like a global pandemic and economic...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Spring
Dr. Fauci, social distance, and a campus without peoplePrimus VIJuly-August 2020 college-pump-coronavirus-springExistential Q&A. A novel situation, like a pandemic, raises novel questions. For one,...
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Headlines from Harvard’s historyFrom the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>July-August 2020 yesterdays-news1935The Summer School hosts...
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How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic
How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu PandemicMatteo Wong How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu PandemicOn September 23, 1918, when Harvard College opened its doors for the new school year, the Spanish flu had...
View ArticleRe-naming Lowell House?
Re-naming Harvard’s Lowell House?John S. Rosenberg Re-naming Harvard’s Lowell House?As they prepared to assume the faculty deanship of the renovated Lowell House last summer, David Laibson and Nina...
View Article“Hands On” with Fragile Glass Sea Creatures
Blaschka Glass Sea Creatures Rendered in 3DMatteo Wong Blaschka 3D sea creaturesWhen James Hanken became the director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) two decades ago, the museum’s...
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A Science Is Born
Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970sThe “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at HarvardHarry R. LewisSeptember-October 2020 features-a-science-is-bornThirty veterans of Harvard’s...
View ArticleDramatis Personae
Partial list of significant early Harvard computer-sciences faculty and students(A Partial List)September-October 2020 features-dramatis-personaeA Science Is BornBrenda Baker ’69, Ph.D. ’73…longtime...
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Headlines from Harvard’s historyFrom the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>September-October 2020 jhj-yesterdays-news-so201935Director...
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David L. Evans, longtime Harvard admissions officer, retiresDavid L. Evans made a difference for 50 years.Matteo WongSeptember-October 2020 jhj-changemaker-in-admissionsThe fourth of seven children,...
View ArticleRebelling and Expelling
The much-shrunken class of 1823The Class of 1823 goes rogue and gets booted.Jacob SweetSeptember-October 2020 treasure-rebelling-and-expellingBy most standards, 2020 wasn’t a great year to graduate: as...
View ArticleCrystal Balls
Prognostications on disease defense, China, deficits, and sweatPrimus VISeptember-October 2020 college-pump-crystal-ballsThey were prepared. Alexandra Petri ’10, a columnist for The Washington Post,...
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Headlines from Harvard’s historyFrom the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>November-December 2020 jhj-yesterdays-news1925The Harvard...
View ArticleA Life in Tai Chi
Tai chi master Yon LeeThe healing of Master Yon LeeJacob SweetNovember-December 2020 jhj-a-life-in-tai-chiAfter rolling around on the floor for a play’s fight scene, Jessamyn Conrad ’00 was covered in...
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Likenesses
Civil War image, Empire State homage, and morePrimus VINovember-December 2020 college-pump-likenessesPeach state dispatch. W. Todd Groce, president and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society, writes:I...
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The Education of a Harvard Lawyer
The third woman to make the “Harvard Law Review” looks backAn alumna looks back.Nancy Boxley TepperJanuary-February 2021 feature-education-harvard-lawyerIn the photograph here, taken on an overcast...
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Crimson’s Mr. Green
Harvard’s naturalist, acronym guide, distracted professor at workPrimus VIJanuary-February 2021 college-pump-crimson-mr-greenRob Gogan, Harvard’s recycling and waste manager, retired in October, having...
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Conservative Curation
Radcliffe’s 1936 exhibit celebrating women in university life“Women in Science” on display Alona BachJanuary-February 2021 treasure-conservative-curationAmid the triumphant fanfare of the Harvard...
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Headlines from Harvard’s historyFrom the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>January-February 2021 jhj-yesterdays-news1921In a story that...
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A Gate of Whimsy
An innovative gate for Harvard YardJacob SweetMarch-April 2021 jhj-gate-of-whimsyBy Harvard standards, the gate outside Lamont Library wasn’t really a gate. “It was just an extension of the fencing,”...
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Headlines from Harvard’s history From the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>March-April 2021 jhj-yesterdays-news-ma211911The Corporation...
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Harvard’s popular runners’s loopA legendary route’s disputed distanceJacob SweetMarch-April 2021 jhj-sports-1200-meter-loopIt was just a normal Instagram picture: two sisters in running attire,...
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Dues to the Past
The College PumpPrimus VIMarch-April 2021 college-pump-dues-to-pastMCMLVI masks. For their sixty-fifth reunion, whatever form it may take, members of the College class of 1956 conceived of a custom...
View ArticleWisdom of the Sages
Wilbur Cross, Martin Feldstein, and Charles William EliotPrimus VIMay-June 2021 college-pump-wisdom-sagesThe spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the Depression, a new president scrambling...
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Headlines from Harvard’s history From the pages of the <em>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</em> and <em>Harvard Magazine</em>May-June 2021 jhj-yesterdays-news-mj211926A Crimson poll of...
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