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.
Home-plate Security
On April 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), James Alexander...
Yesterday's News
1919 Indignant alumni write the Bulletin protesting the unsportsmanlike conduct of Harvard spectators at the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game...
Spring Sports
RowingThe men's heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive undefeated season by repeating as national champions at the Intercollegiate...
Brevia
Vanishing VisasPost-9/11 delays in granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow...
Gone Missing
On June 18, 1903, on the occasion of Frederick Thayer's twenty-fifth reunion, his teammates presented him with the "first catcher's mask ever...
In the Temper of the Times
To those who have seen many of them, this year's Commencement day seemed a sober affair, fit for the gray skies and gray times. The customary...
Honoris Causa
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement...
Commencement Confetti
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)"Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas," President...
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan's 2004 Harvard Commencement address
Read the 2004 Commencement address by United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Addition by Subtraction
Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the...