The Harvard Gazette

John Leverett

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Last year, Ph.D. student Stuart M. McManus (left) discovered a poem by Benjamin Larnell, the last Native American student at Harvard in the colonial era. Larnell’s poem is most interesting for what it signifies, said Tom Keeline, a scholar of Latin pedagogy: “that American Indians were trained in exactly the same way as colonial Puritans.”

Harvard’s Indian College poet

After 300 years, researcher finds Latin ode by last of its students

Arts|

DateSeptember 16, 2013May 21, 2019

The Class of 1913 assembled on the Kirkland Street side of Memorial Hall for a class portrait. Among the June 19 graduates were editor and art collector Scofield Thayer, Eleanor Roosevelt’s youngest brother, and a 14-year-old from Turkey-in-Asia. About 65 percent of the class — 375 students — served during World War I.

Harvard’s lucky ’13s

In three prior centuries, graduates of that year left a rapidly changing Harvard to enter a seemingly stable world

Campus|

DateMay 29, 2013