Last fall, my adorable grandson, halfway between two and three years, was finally tall enough to look at the family pictures arranged on a...

  W. W. Nolen, 1910 (Harvard University Archives) From his third-floor window, William Whiting Nolen watched the twentieth century arrive at...

    Illustration from Harvard Celebrities (1901) William Whiting Nolen orbited Harvard for the better part of 43 years. During much of tha...

  "University Athletes Ship as Stokers" It sounded like a great adventure, one that would yield $30 per man and a bounty of storie...

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Dr. J.W. Amey appeared in a 1918 "great men" directory.   Ironically, the first time the newspapers took note of Jesse Willis Amey...

  “Famous for his artistic eye,” the early-twentieth century theater agent Joseph Mandelkern liked to boast that he discovered the ethereal ...