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

Citing Harvard

Although it was not the educational institution directly involved in the affirmative-action cases decided by the Supreme Court on June 23...

Allston Deliberations

Having hired a team of consultants and engineers one year ago to assess the University's existing real estate assets in Allston, as well as the...

Diggin' It: Summer in Cambridge

Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...

For the Virtual Museumgoer

The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted...

At the HLS Helm

Elena Kagan, J.D. '86, once a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and later an adviser on domestic policy issues to President...

Multilateral Commencement

One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement week, so soon after the smoke cleared in Baghdad...

Over 91-Acre Allston Purchase, a Fresh Political Maelstrom

When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was an historic moment: for the first time, the...

Honoris Causa

Two women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 352nd Commencement. In the absence of a University marshal, Provost Steven Hyman...

On Preventing Sexual Violence

Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about sexual violence...

Picture Gallery

Mather House seniors, from left, Samantha Goodwin, of Freeburg, Illinois; Jordan Goss, of Arlington, Texas; Paul Kwak, of Beavercreek...