Tag: Henry James

  • Campus & Community

    Storied Irving Street paves way to history

    Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.

  • Campus & Community

    In 1914, poised for war

    The Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1914 were the University’s final ones before world war. Their brilliant students became players on a stage of vanishing national innocence.

  • Arts & Culture

    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

  • Arts & Culture

    Life lessons

    On a sultry August day three decades ago, historian Jean Strouse ’67 stopped in Harvard Square to buy daisies. She walked on to the nearby grave site of diarist Alice James, who died in 1892.