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

Caryn Davies is a champion rower

At the end of every e-mail from Caryn Davies '04 is a quotation from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: "You see, I want a lot./Perhaps I want...

by Craig Lambert

Tennis Rampant

The Harvard men's and women's tennis teams were both undefeated in the Ivy League this spring. The women (19-4, 7-0 Ivy) had the best winning...

As Disciplines Converge

Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. One way to trace emerging fields is...

Baker: About Face

Baker Library is empty of its books, staff, and readers. It is doing business elsewhere, at several locations both on and off the Business...

The Price of Parity

The data—or at least some data—are now in on the effects of Harvard's new Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) for custodial...

Undergraduate Overseer

The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate education have been entrusted to Benedict H. Gross '71, Ph.D. '78...

Robert M. Gogan Jr.

Robert M Gogan, Jr. Photograph by Stu Rosner Rob Gogan is Harvard's recycling and waste-management impresario. "It's a dream job,"...

University People

Masters in the House(s) Jay and Cheryl Harris Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Service Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis announced on...

Remarks by Margaret Atwood, recipient of the 2003 Radcliffe Medal

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, A.M. '62, was the recipient of the 2003 Radcliffe Medal and gave an address at the Radcliffe Association annual...

Walking on Water: A Rowing Trifecta

Half a continent apart, on the weekend of May 31, three Harvard crews pulled off a feat unprecedented in the history of college rowing:...