John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

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

Honoris Causa

Harvard’s 2022 honorary-degree recipients

Graduates-to-be read the student newspaper, absent a University Gazette

Commencement Confetti

Tidbits from a memorable, celebratory Harvard week

President Lawrence S. Bacow at Commencement May 26, 2022

The Speeches 2022

President Bacow on humility, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on democracy and social media, and Attorney General Merrick Garland on civic engagement and threats to U.S. democracy

Plaque memorializing slaves, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016

Harvard’s Ties to Slavery

A long-awaited, unsparing picture 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Mariana Quinn

Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn

A former geologist follows her piano-tuner father’s footsteps.

by Nancy Walecki

Views from the Top

President Bacow and Senior Fellow Lee on Harvard today

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration of football players hanging their laundry out to dry

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Retiring executive vice president Katie Lapp

Brevia

The EVP retires, new Overseers leaders, Stanford’s sustainability school, and more

Illustration of 2022 Commencement with movie camera for first time

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Harvard Business School hybrid classroom for in-person and remote learning

Post-Pandemic Pedagogy

The future of teaching and learning at Harvard—and beyond

by John S. Rosenberg