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.
Cutting Costs
With budgets tightening around Harvard (see the profile of new financial vice president Ann E. Berman), President Lawrence H. Summers has put...
Being "of Harvard"
One year after the release of The Women's Guide to Harvard comes The Black Guide to Life at Harvard, compiled by the publications chairs of the...
Pillars of the Economy
As deteriorating local-government finances collide with expanding — and property-tax-exempt — campuses, Boston-area research...
Speak Memory
"Here I am, an old man in a dry month,/Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain," said T.S. Eliot '10 into the microphone. He was giving a...
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...
Outperformance Pays
Superior performance in money management need not be absolutely positive. Modestly negative net returns on investments, like Harvard Management...
Iron and Silk
Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set...
Lord Byron on Demand
Harvard University Press's backlist is both one of its greatest blessings on the world of scholars and a strong source of income—but only...
The Watertown Agreement
The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown...