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

Education Angels

His nine-year deanship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concluded, Jerome T. Murphy still fizzes with ideas about public schooling...

University People

Richard E. Oldenburg '54 was elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2001-2002, his last year of service on the board. He succeeded...

Lisa McGirr

"My one regret about being an Americanist," says Lisa McGirr, who has just been promoted to associate professor of history, "is...

Dorm of Bread and Honey

Several years ago, the Jordan residential cooperatives, adjacent to Radcliffe Quad at the intersection of Shepard and Walker Streets, became...

The B.A. Diploma from A to Z

The first Harvard diploma in English instead of Latin appeared in 1961. When word of the abandonment of Latin came through in April, it touched...

Brevia

Bettering Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford...

Woodruff Named ART Artistic Director

Robert Woodruff will succeed Robert Brustein as artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre (ART), President Neil L. Rudenstine...

Profiting from the Human Genome

Consider this little known fact: academic institutions hold more gene patents than the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and all biotech companies...

Jumping English-style

They make an odd sight on the sidewalk. Rising at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, the riders don their high black leather boots, jodhpurs, hunt...