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

University People

Robert D. Reischauer Harvard News Office Familiar Fellow Robert D. Reischauer '63 was appointed to the Harvard Corporation (The...

Elite Educators

When last seen, statistician Richard J. Light, Gale professor of education, had published his findings on what makes for an effective...

Hushed Voices

Sacred and secular, the University's observance of September 11 proved both a moving memorial to the thousands who lost their lives to...

Three Maestros Talk Music

Conductors are known for their long lives—Toscanini, for example, lived to be 89. Three Harvard conductors—James Yannatos, Tom...

Laura Justine Garwin

Laura Justine Garwin Photograph by Stu Rosner After trumpeting with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society...

Stop the Presses

Harvard has gotten out of the printing business for the third time in its history. On June 17 the University shed the 23 workers composing the...

Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage

Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try Anne Hutchinson, who was banished to Rhode...

by Garrett M. Graff

H-R History Online

Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary...

Mastering in the '70s

In the spring of 1973 Harvard president Derek Bok asked my husband, Jim Vorenberg, to be master of Dunster House. We had been married three...

Malkin Renewal

Nothing exceeds like success. Last summer, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) installed some new exercise equipment, completely refurbishing its...