Our Harvard: Reflections on College Life by Twenty-two Distinguished Graduates

Twenty-two notable Harvard graduates, ranging from the class of 1917 to that of 1981, reminisce about their undergraduate years in essays that record everything from high-spirited pranks to thoughts on influential teachers to the often devastating intrusion of world events into the college years.
Buckminster Fuller recalls that his class of 1917 attended a comfortable, insulated Harvard—but also that one in ten was destined to die in the first World War. Anton Myrer remembers the hectic mont...