John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

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

3D graph with colorful curves and arrows showing complex motion in a coordinate system.

From Cybercafes to Classrooms

Virtual reality in the classroom

Geoffrey Fowler in the other Cambridge, minding where he walks, finding time for friendships and tea, and punting--a skill he never learned at Harvard despite living in Eliot House, hard by the Charles.

Over There

Geoffrey A. Fowler '00, who served as one of this magazine's Ledecky undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England...

Peter T. Ellison, with images from his field research: a Lese woman dancing (left), and Efe Pygmies smoking a banana-stem pipe

The Graduate School Agenda

Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

"Two-winged looper" Kyna Fong demonstrates her topspin backhand.

Fong of Ping-Pong

The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now...

by Craig Lambert

The display cases at the present Museum of Natural History are much as they were in the nineteenth century. Below left: A noisy air-conditioning unit does its best to maintain conditions suitable for the celebrated glass flowers. Below right: The lack of climate control has cracked the hide of a stuffed animal.

Another Museum Proposed

Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined site in Allston at some time in the not-too-distant future...

A photograph of ice hockey skates seen from the ice

Impresario of Fun

William J. “Bill” Cleary Jr. ’56, All-American, Olympian, head coach, and athletic director.

by Craig Lambert

Kathy Spiegelman

The Politics of Campus Planning

Kathy Spiegelman, once an assistant city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate...

Judith Palfrey

On a ward at Children's Hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying...

Endowment Encore... and More?

The Harvard Corporation has authorized another large increase in the distribution of funds from the endowment to support...

Not Building by the Book

With 90 Mount Auburn Street, avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural "gems"...