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.
University People
Bridging a Graduate Gap A scientist follows an historian of science, as James M. Hogle and Doreen Hogle succeed Everett I. Mendelsohn and Mary...
HOLLIS Improved
Choosing the relative peace of July, when the inevitable bugs could be dealt with calmly, the University Library released a greatly improved...
Brevia
Spirits of the Law Since January 1999, when then-provost Harvey V. Fineberg promulgated it, Harvard's policy has been to prohibit...
China Summer
Jinhua, a prefecture composed of eight counties in the middle of Zhejiang Province—six hours by slow train south of Shanghai—is hot...
First Impression
Anna Harkey's cylinder seal, when rolled across damp clay, yields an autobiography in relief. The image includes her name in English, the year...
Allston Update
Just two years ago, Harvard seemed flush with investment profits and generous campaign donations. Former president Neil L. Rudenstine had raised...
Harvard Patterns
Every time a Harvard office hires an architect, designer, or planner—and that happens frequently—plans and maps and other kinds of...
First-year Double-talk
It is one of the paradoxes of the Harvard experience that the admissions process demands self-promotion, but the epilogue to the admissions...
Getting Centered
Almost unnoticed, much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to...