John Harvard's Journal

Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

Sports Wrap

SoftballThe softballers (31-15, 15-6 Ivy) won the league championship, with Ivy Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick ’08 (16-6) tossing a...

Attend to the Cursed

Few who stood at a Harvard podium during Commencement week mentioned the war in Iraq. Joshua Patashnik '07, of Adams House and San Diego, did do...

Interim Accomplishments

When he was summoned back to Massachusetts Hall in February 2006, interim president Derek Bok told a group of Harvard administrators last...

Developing Deans, Calendar Consensus

Beyond what he characterized last October as a “formidable agenda” of substantive work, Derek Bok pursued less publicized ways to...

Harvard Portrait: Annette Lemieux

Though she’s been called a conceptual artist, “That’s just for lack of a better term,” says Annette Lemieux, professor...

Managing Harvard: A New Deal?

Editor’s note: President Derek Bok, who wrote annual reports on the University during his service from 1971 to 1991, did so again at the...

University People

One for the Books Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Robert C. Darnton Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Sidney Verba Robert C. Darnton...

College curriculum change completed

During the second weekend in May, just before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) met on May 15 for its final discussion of a proposed new...

Growth Spurt

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to...

Keeping the Vibes

How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation...