With the great range of interests and accomplishments that come from Harvard students, considering any one student superior to another can seem like an unreasonable task. Taking on this challenge, someone has written a document that attempted to definitively list Harvard College’s supposed “Top 100 Students.” Ironically, this list only included 99 names. Clicking a […]
Harvard’s largest student-run charity, dance, and fashion show, Eleganza, celebrated its 30th birthday on April 20. Eleganza breaks the mold of a typical fashion show by exhibiting fashion pieces and social expression through a diverse array of dances. Produced by Bristol Fales-Hill ’25, Norah Ostin ’25, and Melanie Volz ’25, this year’s show included fashion […]
While many self-help books and advice columns claim to have “expert knowledge” on dating, none seem to include vignettes from the lives of Harvard’s hopeless and hopeful romantics. Since personal stories resonate more than advice alone, we’ve collected stories from our friends with invaluable lessons (and given each of them pseudonyms). Sometimes it feels like […]
“I just killed my best friend!” “And your worst enemy.” “Same difference.” If you ever wanted to kill your friends (or enemies) while navigating—as Riverdale’s Archie Andrews astutely puts it—“the epic highs and lows of high school,” then Heathers is the perfect production for you. Dear Diary: We attended the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) performance […]
September 26th, 1960: Princess Alexandra of Kent, representing Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, arrived in Lagos, Nigeria smiling from her car as she was greeted by the cheering of schoolchildren. A few days later: on October 1st, the princess would preside over the official freedom charter where Nigeria was declared a sovereign state. […]
The chatter dies down in The Ex, the intimate black box theater housed in the Loeb Drama Center. The atmosphere is clinical: two metal hospital beds, creaky-wheeled and almost rusty under the fluorescent lights, occupy center stage. The screen reads, “The experiment is about to begin.” Finally, the performers enter. There are only four roles […]
