Retrospection
Mumps: A Play By Play
Our boys are tired but determined, ready to take on the Big Red Bears when, alas!... Down goes a Harvard rower.
Written in the Stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was promoted as the first woman to receive a full-time, non-female-only professorship from Harvard College.
The Man Behind the Seals: La Vie of Rose
Few have heard of the man behind the seals: Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, a celebrated heraldry expert and member of the Class of 1895.
Retrospection: Agassiz's Expeditions in Brazil
But for Agassiz, the trip to Brazil was about more than science. Not only was evolution—a process not immediately observable to the human eye—deeply antithetical to Agassiz’s staunch empiricism, evolution was profoundly at odds with his perceived world order.
Harvard Yard to the Rose Garden: Merrick Garland's College Days
As a pre-med freshman, Merrick B. Garland ’74 likely did not see himself going to law school, let alone standing at the side of the United States President in 2016 as the most recent nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shifting Services
Later in the 17th century, the college held prayer gatherings for the entire student body, led by the president and his close affiliates.
The End of the Tour: Eliot and the American South
One paper in the North questioned whether Eliot had "reached the period of senility." Another suggested that his resignation could not have come soon enough.
