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

On the Gates arrest and its aftermath

On the arrest of Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and its aftermath

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

David Malan

David J. Malan

Expert multitasker David Malan introduces students to computer science.

University People

Honors, arrivals, and departures

Printed Catalogs: R.I.P.

A Harvard fixture bites the dust.

Dining halls (such as Eliot's) are "the hub of House life," says a report on the residences, and every House should have its own.

Harvard outlines broad principles for house renewal

Harvard has released a report on the role of the Houses in undergraduate life, in preparation for a major renovation.

Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office

Brevia

Short takes on recent news

Yesterday's News

Headlines from Harvard history

Giving a spell-out for <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/2009-speeches">Graduate English orator Joseph Claghorn</a> were fellow landscape-architecture students Vanessa Lindley Palmer (J; the ringleader), Katie Jean Powell (O), Sisi Sun (S), Joonhyun Kim (E), Simon Mark Bussiere (P), and Adrienne Re Heflich (H). Design School students still play with blocks.

A Worldly Week

Commencement celebrants and celebrations faced up to real world problems.

Ghosts

As senior year winds down, a look forward—and back.

by Brittney Moraski