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

A Slightly Grayer Faculty

The unique institution of tenure gave higher education a loophole when the 1970 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was amended in 1986...

Rethinking the Divinity School

"The university is very healthy as a whole. The immensely successful Rudenstine presidency has placed us in an excellent position to face...

A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars

The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...

Faculty Perk Sheet

A pdf of the Faculty Perk Sheet by Andy Borowitz '80 is available for download...

Harvard Patterns

Every time a Harvard office hires an architect, designer, or planner—and that happens frequently—plans and maps and other kinds of...

First-year Double-talk

It is one of the paradoxes of the Harvard experience that the admissions process demands self-promotion, but the epilogue to the admissions...

by Phoebe Kosman

Getting Centered

Almost unnoticed, much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to...

Catcher on the Fly

The game's turning point—and perhaps the play that locked up last year's Ivy football title—came with 6:57 left in the third period...

by Craig Lambert

Neighbors on Edge

Residents bordering Harvard have turned building projects into political battlegrounds. Below, a Harvard rejoinder. More than five...

Historic Henley

Even given the storied history of Harvard crew, it was an unprecedented day. On Sunday, July 7, the final day of the Henley Royal Regatta in...