John Harvard's Journal
Aiming at Alcohol
When the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last spring, it pointedly observed...
Brevia
Not So Hasty Renovation The Hasty Pudding Theatricals building at 12 Holyoke Street, owned by Harvard since 2000, is inching toward a badly...
Extracurricular Communities
I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...
Rebounding Returns
A powerful fourth-quarter rally led by fixed-income portfolios yielded a total return of 12.5 percent on endowment assets for the fiscal year...
Rethinking Education
Harvard's chief pedagogues are going back to class. The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is pursuing changes in its curriculum and internal...
Calendrical Coup?
The curriculum may be remade, plans for Allston refined and implemented, but no monument to administrative accomplishment at Harvard would equal...
Economics and Moral Questions
Last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at the first Morning Prayers service of the semester at Memorial Church. His controversial...
In Allston Planning, the Silly Season
Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as three new undergraduate Houses across the Charles River, and expansion...
Room for the Arts?
Photograph by Jim HarrisonFacing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe Institute in 2005, Harvard College dean Benedict Gross...
Joy of Jades
This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the...