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.
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finallyfinallyI am hitting my stride. “In...
Yesterday's News
1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting...
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized...
Scientific Ambitions
Preliminary land-use plans for campus development in Allston have yet to be subjected to public review and comment (see “Allston Options:...
Honoris Causa
Two women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 354th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the...
Maxine Kumin
On Arts First weekend, poet Maxine Kumin ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the...
Commencement Confetti
NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out...
A Planner for GSD
Had life gone according to his plan, Alan A. Altshuler would have spent one of the snowiest Cambridge winters on record in Singapore. Instead...
Humanist at Harvard
Finding Humanism listed among the 26 religions represented on the Board of Ministry at Harvard may seem curious, but Humanist chaplain Thomas...
University People
Garrett M. Graff Courtesy of Garrett M. Graff Susan Dackerman Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Crimson blogsphere. Two Harvard...