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

Brevia

Money Managers Move For the fourth time since 1998, a group of Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment professionals have decamped, seeking...

Buttonhook and Aloha

Record-breaking passer Rose, going aerial last fall Photograph courtesy Harvard Sports Information Talk about spectacular entrances: In...

by Craig Lambert

Athlete-in-Chief

Bob Scalise Courtesy Harvard Sports Information In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that...

2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows

Photograph by Stu Rosner The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine's 2001-2002 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both...

July 2, Day 1

Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in...

Radcliffe Ramps Up

Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the...

From Playwriting to Physics

The Radcliffe Institute's 2001-2002 fellows include a sculptor, a filmmaker, a painter, and two composers; a poet, a novelist, two playwrights...

"City-building" for an Urban Campus

As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...

Spring into Sports

Track and Field Senior Brenda Taylor (see "Sprinter, Taylor, Hurdler (High)," May-June, page 83), ran a personal best 55.88 seconds to...

The 350th Leadership

It was a sollemnia semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions...