Snapshots
Dispatches from Crimson editors traveling, interning, and volunteering across the world this summer
Bloggers
Lois E. Beckett in India
Lucy M. Caldwell in Washington
Jamison A. Hill in Palo Alto, Calif.
Juli Min in New York & New Jersey
Nafees A. Syed at The Hague
Vidya B. Viswanathan in China
June Q. Wu in Avignon, France
...and other contributors
Latest Postcards
Postal Prestige
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The 56-cent stamp in the center column of this page is genuine U.S. postage, issued in 1986 to coincide with Harvard University’s 350th anniversary. (Philatelists might know the occasion better as Harvard’s semiseptcentennial.) Featuring the stern yet distant gaze of school benefactor John Harvard, the stamp was released during a special ceremony at the Kennedy School of Government, according to press accounts at the time.
Robert Anderson designed the stamp based on the John Harvard statue in front of University Hall, which famously bears no resemblance to the man himself. It’s unclear why the stamp was priced at 56 cents, more than two-and-a-half times the first-class rate in 1986. Mailing oversized egos? —Zachary M. Seward
