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

Brevia

CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during...

Why sleep is important for college students

Early freshman year, in order to experience all that college had to offer, I decided to cut sleep out of my life entirely. Having over-committed...

by Arianne R. Cohen

July 2, Day 1

Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in...

Radcliffe Ramps Up

Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the...

From Playwriting to Physics

The Radcliffe Institute's 2001-2002 fellows include a sculptor, a filmmaker, a painter, and two composers; a poet, a novelist, two playwrights...

"City-building" for an Urban Campus

As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...

Don Share

Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share...

The Law School Looks Ahead

The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer interaction between professors and students, especially during their...

Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"

When he was a graduate student at Harvard, recalls Richard Light, Ph.D. '69, resources for learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard Offers Peace Pipe

Butch Thunderhawk, a Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North...