Retrospection
Warren House 5
A rusted and eccentric zinc tub occupies about one-third of the Warren House half-bath.
h bomb
In 2004, some Harvard students started publishing H Bomb, a student-run magazine about sex that included writings, art, and nude pictures of Harvard undergraduates.
Warren House 6
A Celtic illustration brings the character of the Celtic Languages and Literatures Department to this bathroom relic of departments past.
Did Harvard’s Sex Magazine Come Too Soon?
Along with nudity, the first issue of H Bomb promised art and text galore. The editors also had a vision for the future of the magazine: “longer, smarter, and definitely hotter.” But this projection for H Bomb’s future did not survive the test of time.
Warren House 9
Annexed in the rear of the building is a stylistically unique rear porch. Constructed in 1897, this red brick portion of the house stands two stories tall and is adorned with glazed tile balustrades.
The Strange History of Fake Harvard Students
Although social media was set ablaze this year with rumors of an impostor, there are records of people pretending to be Harvard freshman as far back as the 1960s.
Warren House 1
The Warren House is painted yellow and features twin white brick chimneys that jut resolutely into the crisp Cambridge air.
plate
An astronomical photographic plate taken in Peru from Harvard College Observatory's Arequipa Station.
Peruvians workers at site of construction of Bruce Building, Harvard College Observatory, Arequipa, Peru
Peruvians workers work on the Bruce Building at Harvard College Observatory, Arequipa, Peru.
Mount Harvard Cover
In the late 19th to early 20th century, the Harvard College Observatory set up a field station in Arequipa, Peru to document the skies of the Southern hemisphere.
Susan Sontag
But for Sontag, no word went unqualified, no word was left without its own definition to her, not “Camp,” not “illness,” not even “I,” and certainly not “writer.”
Astronomical Imperialism: Harvard In the Peruvian Skies
The data collected by Harvard College Observatory in Arequipa in the late 19th to early 20th century, is foundational in the study of astronomy and has furthered our understanding of the cosmos. But this type of cross-continental scientific undertaking cannot be separated from its impact on its workers — both the Indigenous people building Harvard facilities in Peru and the low-paid women astronomers in Cambridge.
The Ghost of Susan Sontag
“The Self as a Project.” That’s what Sontag told Charlie Rose she was working on when she wasn’t writing. The grand irony is that she took that noble aspiration of the liberal arts colleges she swore off and made it hers: teaching people how to think.
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert ’53, who would share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for DNA research involving DNA, remembers the debate over the safety of recombinant DNA research playing out “inside the University in several meetings” before spilling out into the public.
Testing ‘God’s Law’: Advent of Recombinant DNA Research Struck Fear into Cambridge
Recombinant DNA research helped lay the groundwork for modern medicine. But, before Harvard could build a laboratory to do it, University scientists had to overcome the staunch fears that the pioneering technique was safe.