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.
Auden and the Little Things
We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939." Perhaps you've heard it...
What Crimson Means to Me
My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...
On Undergraduate Education
(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...
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...
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...
Quick at the Plate
It came down to an esophagus-and-esophagus finish, but with friends cheering him on, Ian Walker '03 swallowed up the lead of a chomping Eagle...
Deconstructing the College Deanship
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new structure to manage undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to...