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.

by Dick Friedman

Envisioning Arts and Sciences Anew

In his annual decanal letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), published February 3, William C. Kirby fleshes out the three principal...

Painting across Cultures

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets," wrote British...

by Craig Lambert

The College Reconfigures

Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross announced in early January a series of appointments and new positions intended to manage undergraduate...

Freezing Out the Forwards

The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice hockey...

by Craig Lambert

Seeing Biological Systems Whole

Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a microscope and...

by Nathan Heller

Winter Sports in Brief

Women's Ice Hockey The icewomen (11-6-2) revenged an early 3-2 road loss to Yale with an 11-2 blowout at home in January. Four of the team's six...

Faculty Composition

Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching...

Daytripper

It's hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past...

by Nathan Heller

Leaner Libraries

The pilot project with Google announced by the Harvard University Library in December is a small step toward a future of possibilities in which...

Fun's Expediter

Zac Corker Harvard News Office Styled "Harvard's Fun Czar" by Reuters and CNN, Zac Corker '04 sits in his University Hall...