Harvard, Hair, and Harter’s Hunt for Perfection
Almost perfect—and neatly groomed.
Celebrating Another Founder
The University’s (formerly Big) Day.
An Old Penn for the Future
Old Penn, new format.
Righting the Wrongs
Wharton’s first Black graduate.
Friendships Renewed
Alumni Day, 1920.
Protesting Pollution
Earth Day, 1970.
100 Years Ago, a National Basketball Title
National champs in basketball (pre-March Madness).
New Year, Old Calendar
“Snappy drawings of college life.”
“A Brood of Sturdy Men”
War Memorial Flagpole, 1952.
Fight On, Pennsylvania!
“Fight On, Pennsylvania!” crosses line to 100.
Subterranean Swimming
A dip into Houston Hall’s history.
Indigenous Ethnologist
Gladys Tantaquidgeon CTT’29
“The Usual Pound Piffle”
Ezra Pound’s Bollingen, and before.
‘A Sea of People’
Parade to the pep rally.
A “Healthful, Congenial Home”
Birth of the Quad.
Safe at the College
After the Armistice.
“The Future Looks Bright”
The College for Women at 30.
Three Music Masters
Masters of music, 1977.
Stars in Their Eyes
Basketball champs, 1928.
The Un-Quaker Commandant
From Friend to Leatherneck.
The Carriage House, Pre-LGBT
Old Penn, Nov|Dec 2017
Bygone Gazettes
Old Penn, Sept|Oct 2017
Strange Brotherhood
The hidden chapter of wartime human experimentation in the DKE house.
A Principled Man
Nathan Mossell M1882 overcame great odds to become the first African-American graduate of Penn’s School of Medicine. He went on to found Philadelphia’s first black hospital—an achievement he never really wanted.