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

Bettering Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford...

Woodruff Named ART Artistic Director

Robert Woodruff will succeed Robert Brustein as artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre (ART), President Neil L. Rudenstine...

Profiting from the Human Genome

Consider this little known fact: academic institutions hold more gene patents than the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and all biotech companies...

Jumping English-style

They make an odd sight on the sidewalk. Rising at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, the riders don their high black leather boots, jodhpurs, hunt...

Spring into Sports

Track and Field Senior Brenda Taylor (see "Sprinter, Taylor, Hurdler (High)," May-June, page 83), ran a personal best 55.88 seconds to...

The 350th Leadership

It was a sollemnia semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions...

2001 Harvard honorary degrees

  Three women and eight men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were:...

Commencement Confetti

A tipping of caps to John Harvard. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, leading, told seniors at their baccalaureate service, "All of the muses are...

Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001

Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001