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

Class-conscious Financial Aid

Harvard has enhanced its undergraduate financial-aid program in an effort to make the College more attractive to lower-income students...

Arts' Rising Place

The practice of the arts is in the ascendant at Harvard. And even though there is not now enough space to contain this explosion of student...

The (New) Calendar Canon

The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an...

Tying Knots

On a dumping ground along a dirt road in Santiago's Renca municipality, Harvard-affiliated planners work to create decent housing for 160...

by John S. Rosenberg

Acquisitions and Holdings

The University’s extraordinary library system, among the world’s largest, grows apace. In fiscal year 2002, the collections grew by...

Yesterday's News

1924 The Bulletin's editors report themselves glad "to record that John Harvard has at last come into his own"—the University...

The Library’s Healers

Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid...

Brevia

Treasurer-electJames F. Rothenberg '68, M.B.A. '70, has been elected Treasurer and a member of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. He...

Going Home Again

The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...

by Rebecca O’Brien

The Senior Marshals

The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester...