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The Rise and Fall of the Freshman Smoker

By William S. Hahn

Spaces within Spaces: The Origins of Harvard’s Final Clubs

The Radical Feminist Magazine You've Never Heard of

Tuned to the Trends: The History of Harvard's Varsity Mandolin Club

‘A Very Fraught Moment’: How Elizabeth Holmes Joined the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows

Something Worth Pfighting Pfor

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.

To Be A Frayed Knot of Victory

Harvard’s Tug-of-War team was on top of the world — until a rag-tag group of untrained, unpracticed, and untested MIT students pulled off an upset that left a stain on their prestigious reputation.