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

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...

Honoris Causa

Three women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 351st Commencement, a constellation of luminaries larger than in any year since...

Commencement Confetti

Courtesy Kevin A. "KAL" Kallaugher '77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion...

Free Speech: Testing

So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of...

Rethinking 90 Mount Auburn

Harvard plans to erect a new building on Mount Auburn Street beside the Fox Club (foreground). Harvard has tapped Leers Weinzapfel...

Scenes from Commencement

Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first...

In from the Margins

The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers's first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen...