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

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...

Brevia

Landscaping Transplanted The Radcliffe Institute's seminar program in landscape design and landscape design history...

David Carrasco

In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology...

WWI Women Remembered

In a Veterans Day service at Memorial Church on November 11, Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, spoke of the...

The Gamut of Grades from A to B

Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past three academic years have been A or A-. More than any other...

A Scientific Windfall for the University?

A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...

Surplus Surge

The black ink continues. For the fiscal year ended June 20, 2001, the University recorded an operating surplus of $164.9 million--37 percent...