Harvard’s Three Things: An Origin Story Laid Bare
By Annie C. Harvieux and Colton A. Valentine Today, it is said that there are three things every Harvard student must do before graduating: pee on the John Harvard statue, run in Primal Scream, and have sex in the Widener stacks.
Yet the lore of Harvard’s “Three Things” only developed recently, with nude primal scream being unheard of just 20 years ago.