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

"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"

Although—let us be right out front —there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has...

Brevia

Military Message General Richard B. Myers Photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office "Never before has there been a time when...

Harvard's Financial Aid Failings

"For those moving from warmer climates, inexpensive winter clothing can be purchased at local second-hand clothing stores, consignment...

Dating at Harvard circa 2002

For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold...

by Arianne R. Cohen

Daunting Debts

Education is like a garden, explains Carol Strickland, a sixth-year student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). "You can't plant a...

by Garrett M. Graff

Harvard Girl

For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status for Ivy...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Sandra Grindlay

Seen here [this photograph not available on-line] at the Fogg Art Museum with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, is Sandra Grindlay...

Sailing: Broad Reach

They buy their subway tokens and ride two stops to Kendall, then walk to the Harvard Sailing Center, on the river near MIT. The sailing team...

by Craig Lambert

Counting the Costs

What would it take to address the financial problems of particularly needy students who want to pursue their graduate or professional education...

Spring Sports

Men's Crew The Crimson decisively swept the Harvard-Yale boat race (the varsity winning by 41.3 seconds), to cap a strong season. The men's...