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.
Applying Yourself
On a hot September day in 2004, President Lawrence H. Summers was addressing the large group of newly arrived freshmen and their parents about...
by Liz Goodwin
Approaching the Arts Anew
Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a...
Storybook Ending
Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a...
Theatrical Debut
Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) returns to its historic home this year for its 160th production. (Since the inaugural show in 1844, the group...
Gyroball Historian
In the fall, the Tokyo publisher Asahi Shinsho released a new title in Japanese, loosely translated as The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s...
Getting and Spending
The University’s annual financial accounting—usually a forbidding and retrospective document—this year sports a new look and...
Yesterday's News
1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships for freshmen from southern and western states to ensure greater diversity within...
Faculty Well-Being: A Status Report
For the first time, Harvard has asked its faculty members how happy they are. A survey conducted last November by the two-year-old Office of...
"First Day of School" for Engineering
With speeches and feasting, Harvard celebrated the launch of its new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on September 20. During a...
Gender and Minority Metrics
The report from the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity published this summer also contains the third annual accounting of gender and...