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

Harvard-Yale Boat Race Turns 150

The sesquicentennial of college athletics in America takes place June 8 on the Thames (rhymes with "James") River in New London...

A Dean for All Weathers

When he announced on February 11 that he would relinquish the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship this June, Jeremy R. Knowles signaled...

The Oddest Streak in Rowing

The Harvard men's lightweight crew boasts one of the most consistent records of excellence in college sports. Consider the May regatta that...

Law School Locale

Harvard Law School (HLS) is carefully weighing the pros and cons of building a new campus for itself in Allston. A "locational...

Heather Gerken

Heather Gerken Photograph by Stu Rosner When the election of a president appeared to hang in the balance, the media came knocking at...

First Fellow's Farewell

Concluding 27 years of service as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 will step down as a Fellow of Harvard College at...

Portrait of a Pioneer

On February 11, a portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was scheduled to be unveiled on the wall of the Faculty Room in University...

Amending Advising

Harvard undergraduates remain dissatisfied with the quality of academic advising they receive in their concentrations. Harry R. Lewis, dean of...

Virtual Mass. Hall

Having brought his office in Massachusetts Hall into the personal-computer age (see "July 2, Day 1," September-October 2001, page 57)...

After the Boom

After a decade of explosive expansion for Harvard's two fastest-growing schools, one faces a deficit and is cutting costs, while the other has...