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

In the Temper of the Times

To those who have seen many of them, this year's Commencement day seemed a sober affair, fit for the gray skies and gray times. The customary...

Honoris Causa

Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement...

Commencement Confetti

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)"Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas," President...

United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan's 2004 Harvard Commencement address

Read the 2004 Commencement address by United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan.

Addition by Subtraction

Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the...

Scott V. Edwards

Scott V. EdwardsPhotograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of...

Allston Advances

When four faculty task forces finished their reports on Allston this May, the development scenario outlined in an October 2003 letter by...

Sponsored-Research Funds

Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard's operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the...

The Newest Rhodes

The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is Harvard's seventh Rhodes Scholarship winner for 2004 (see "The Rhodes...

The Swinging Lingmans

In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their own sex. Still, the men's and women's teams root for each other...

by Craig Lambert