Retrospection
The Radical Feminist Magazine You've Never Heard of
During the three years of its existence, The Rag played a powerful role in campus culture. The collective created a space for women to play with radical ideas and reckon with pressing issues, while the magazine added a distinct voice to the college’s fraught discourse. Despite its short life, The Rag expanded what feminism could be at Harvard.
‘A Very Fraught Moment’: How Elizabeth Holmes Joined the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows
In the aftermath of the exposé and months of investigations that followed, the Board grappled with an internal debate about whether to keep Holmes “on the board for a while out of fairness and due process” or request her resignation in order to “limit potential institutional reputational damage."
Something Worth Pfighting Pfor
During at least three separate points in the history of Harvard College, one line from the classic Harvard introduction could mean the difference between peace and war.
William James Death Mask
The death mask of William James is preserved in Harvard's Houghton Library.
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Death Masks
Along with William James, Harvard’s archives also contain the death masks of Dante Alighiere, James Joyce, Edward Estlin Cummings, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Walt Whitman.
The Adams House Raft Race Sunk in The Charles River’s Past
To construct their rafts, racers collected materials from across campus. Some made intricate designs, while others threw together a hodgepodge of items.
Redwoods, Resurrected
Though they grow peacefully now, dawn redwoods didn’t come to Harvard without “a big fight in the tree world,” as a 1952 Crimson article put it.
