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

Developmental Troubles

When the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was disbanded in 2000, it meant the disappearance of the University's largest...

Laura Justine Garwin

Laura Justine Garwin Photograph by Stu Rosner After trumpeting with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society...

Stop the Presses

Harvard has gotten out of the printing business for the third time in its history. On June 17 the University shed the 23 workers composing the...

Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage

Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try Anne Hutchinson, who was banished to Rhode...

by Garrett M. Graff

H-R History Online

Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary...

Mastering in the '70s

In the spring of 1973 Harvard president Derek Bok asked my husband, Jim Vorenberg, to be master of Dunster House. We had been married three...

Malkin Renewal

Nothing exceeds like success. Last summer, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) installed some new exercise equipment, completely refurbishing its...

University People

Bridging a Graduate Gap A scientist follows an historian of science, as James M. Hogle and Doreen Hogle succeed Everett I. Mendelsohn and Mary...

HOLLIS Improved

Choosing the relative peace of July, when the inevitable bugs could be dealt with calmly, the University Library released a greatly improved...

Brevia

Spirits of the Law  Since January 1999, when then-provost Harvey V. Fineberg promulgated it, Harvard's policy has been to prohibit...