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

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.

Chasing Bogeys

A novel book on golf

Yesterday's News

Happenings at Harvard in Mays and Junes past

Pardis Sabeti

Pardis Sabeti

For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.

U.S. district judge Nancy Gertner (left) listens as Linda Greenhouse ’68, formerly the Supreme Court reporter for the <em>New York Times,</em> questions Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A Walk through History with Justice Ginsburg

The Supreme Court associate justice speaks at a Radcliffe Institute conference on gender and the law.

Daniel Donoghue

Humanities Rebooted

Curricular revisions for English and the classics

by Christian Flow

Sally Zeckhauser

University People

Appointments and departures

Brevia

News of the University and the Harvard community

Parenting, Redux

Junior Parents’ Weekend brings The Undergraduate a new perspective on the future.

by Christian Flow

At the Fresh Pond Golf Course in  Cambridge, Emily Balmert ’09 of the women’s golf team—the first Harvard woman to win the Ivy championship—swings into spring.

Class on the Grass

Golfer Emily Balmert, and the women’s varsity team, have reached milestones.

by Craig Lambert