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

Going Home Again

The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...

by Rebecca O’Brien

The Senior Marshals

The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester...

The Newest Rhodes

The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is Harvard's seventh Rhodes Scholarship winner for 2004 (see "The Rhodes...

The Swinging Lingmans

In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their own sex. Still, the men's and women's teams root for each other...

by Craig Lambert

Winter Champions

WrestlingJantzen (left) and Harkness in St. LouisCourtesy of Jesse JantzenAt the NCAA tournament in March, Jesse Jantzen '04 (left) became only...

Stem-cell Science

With an ambitious mandate to cure cellular diseases, Harvard has launched an important new scientific enterprise, the Harvard Stem Cell...

Louis Menand

Louis MenandPhotograph by Stu RosnerThough readers of the New Yorker might identify him as a gifted book critic and stylish essayist—his...

Class-conscious Financial Aid

Harvard has enhanced its undergraduate financial-aid program in an effort to make the College more attractive to lower-income students...

Arts' Rising Place

The practice of the arts is in the ascendant at Harvard. And even though there is not now enough space to contain this explosion of student...

The (New) Calendar Canon

The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an...