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

Stemming the Applications Flood

Harvard College will henceforth require that early-action applicants for admission not apply early elsewhere. Students admitted early to...

Grade Deflation

Jawboning works. That's the import of a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from Benedict H. Gross, dean of undergraduate...

Stage One

Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the...

by Craig Lambert

Brevia

Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world...

Finding Fuller

I've got a crush on Hank Fuller — and who can blame me? Toby "Hank" Fuller Jr. worked his way up from the junior-varsity football...

by Phoebe Kosman

Diamonds for Tiffany

Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, Whitton hits for average, power, and RBIs Photograph by Jim Harrison Late in the season last...

by Craig Lambert

Quick at the Plate

It came down to an esophagus-and-esophagus finish, but with friends cheering him on, Ian Walker '03 swallowed up the lead of a chomping Eagle...

by Craig Lambert

Deconstructing the College Deanship

Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new structure to manage undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to...

Winter Sports

The icewomen (30-3-1 overall, 15-0-1 ECAC) skated one of their best teams ever, and were ranked first in the nation for most of the year. They...

Undergraduate Education Overseers

The committees charged with leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences review of the undergraduate curriculum (see "College Studies...