The Crimson Key Society is currently in the process of publishing its Guidebook to Harvard University for the first time since 1998! If you would like to financially support our Guidebook effort, please contact our Treasurer Cody Evans ’12 at cevans@fas.harvard.edu.

This comprehensive Guidebook will demystify the expansive history, traditions, and experience of Harvard by providing an insider’s look at the intellectual, political and physical evolution of the university. It will be broken down in themes such as Life at Harvard, Religion at Harvard, and Arts at Harvard, with an introductory grey-tabbed section highlighting different walking tours and practical information, as well as a chapter focusing on the History of Harvard as a whole. The reader will get a sense of what it means to be a part of this entity that we call Harvard University, as we will tie together the historical significance of Harvard with our unique insight into “the Harvard experience.” We hope our guide will include maps, pictures, fun facts, honey boxes with biographies of famous alumni or interviews with famous professors, and color-tabbed sections for each larger theme.

The Crimson Key Society will sell the Guidebook online on Amazon, throughout Harvard square (at the Harvard Events and Information Center, at the COOP etc.) as well as to parents and students during Freshman Week. 

We are extremely excited about this ambitious undertaking, and hope to see the finished product by February 2010. If you would like to know more about the Guidebook, please contact Alexandre Terrien ’11 at aterrien@fas.harvard.edu.