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.
The Shrouds of Cambridge
Perhaps the best business on campus this summer was the rental concession for scaffolding and the rolls of plastic mesh used to wrap building...
Congo Report
The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to...
Scanning Species
On June 26, 1974, merchandise tracking was revolutionized with a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The gum package, today...
Brevia
Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of...
Deep Dig
This enormous excavation might tempt Virginia Lee Burton, who lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when she wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam...
Women in the Sciences
In its report issued in May, the University's Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering dramatically highlighted the "leaky...
Diversity Director
Evelynn M. Hammonds has become Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She will direct implementation...
Head Booter
Grinning, the new head coach of women’s soccer, 29-year-old Stephanie Erickson, says she has friends “who would call me a typical...
"I can no longer support the president"
Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks...
Shielding the Goal
“It’s such a crazy position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team...