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

Paradigm Shift

From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. Harvard...

Off the Glass, On the Ice

Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the last 47 years to go undefeated...

Photograph by Jim Harrison

To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and...

El-Erian for the Endowment

More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment...

Marc Shell

Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur...

An Unconstrained Curriculum

The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...

Gender Initiatives Gain

The campus discussion about faculty diversity—particularly the academic development and careers of women—that was launched last spring...

Early Autumn Sports

Soccer After a 1-0 loss to Vermont, the men’s side (4-3-1) ran off three wins over Coastal Carolina, Maine, and Fairfield before dropping...

Google Pauses

An undertaking greeted by Harvard librarians as potentially “a revolutionary new information-location tool” and “an important...

Harvard Business School Class of...

Data from an annually updated Harvard Business School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business...