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

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...

The Law of Gravity

What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, Harvard...

Radcliffe Recruits

A pair of senior faculty appointments unveiled shortly before the beginning of the academic year underscores the intellectual ambitions and new...

Housing after Randomization

In the annals of undergraduate housing, the graduation of the class of 2001 marked the end of an era. My freshman year, the seniors weren't...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

A Divinity Activist

Father J. Bryan Hehir from the start was on loan to Harvard. When he came to teach at the Divinity School and be part of the Weatherhead Center...

Beyond the Transcript

Last year, Harvard's senior admissions officers urged applicants to the College-- and their parents--to relax a little, lest the rising...