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.
Curriculum, Classroom, Competence
While acknowledging that the curriculum is the faculty’s “sacred domain,” President Derek Bok nonetheless said at the October...
Part History, Part Literature
In 1906, Professor Barrett Wendell ’77 created a program in history and literature for Harvard undergraduates. In a later speech to the...
by Casey N. Cep
Increasingly Electronic Libraries
From 1998 through 2005, University library holdings increased by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number...
Brevia
Design Departure Alan A. Altshuler Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design...
Crimson in Congress
In the aftermath of last November’s elections for the 110th Congress, one Harvard alumnus stood very much alone. Representative Thomas...
A Crutch or an Anchor?
Stumbling along Mount Auburn Street on my way to my Social Studies 10 lecture, I barely manage to juggle Wealth of Nations, this...
by Emma Lind
Yale beats Harvard in 2006 game
The Yale bulldog, muzzled by Harvard for five straight years, broke loose at the Stadium on November 18 and went on a tear. Closing out an Ivy...
Forecourt Phenoms
In the world of college squash, Harvard was once a perennial national champion. The Crimson have bagged 30 such titles, far more than any other...
The Janelia Experiment
Great scientific research organizations, of the rare variety that produce multiple Nobel Prize-caliber breakthroughs, share common traits that...
Allston Plan Imminent
Harvard is expected to file with the City of Boston, early in January, an institutional master plan that maps out development of the Allston...