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

Back in the Game

In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting with my hastily...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Addie's Plaque, George's Hair

When a construction crew demolished a wall on the east side of the level-2 stacks in Widener during Phase 1 of renovations, they came upon a...

Harvard football undefeated in 2001

After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...

by Bethell, John T

Second in Command

In his installation address on October 12 and in a subsequent talk to alumni 15 days later, President Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that...

"A Force on the Ice"

There has been a Moore on the ice for Harvard since 1996, when Mark Moore '00 matriculated. His brothers, Steve '01 and Dominic '03, followed...

by Craig Lambert

Undergraduate Update

Propelled by faculty interest and prodded by Harvard's new president, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to be embarked on an...

Fall Sports in Brief

The men's soccer team (10-5-1, 5-2 Ivy) finished third in the Ivies, having reeled off a five-game winning streak in midseason. The booters...

David Carrasco

In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology...

WWI Women Remembered

In a Veterans Day service at Memorial Church on November 11, Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, spoke of the...

The Gamut of Grades from A to B

Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past three academic years have been A or A-. More than any other...