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

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...

2001 Harvard honorary degrees

  Three women and eight men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were:...

Commencement Confetti

A tipping of caps to John Harvard. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, leading, told seniors at their baccalaureate service, "All of the muses are...

Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001

Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001

Science and Politics and Stem Cells

Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally...

Wage Wrangling

The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum...

Addressing Allston

The wish list for Harvard's recently acquired 100 acres in Allston is long and growing: graduate-student housing, a museum, conceivably a whole...

The Search, Summarized

The quest for Harvard's twenty-seventh president took shape last July, following Neil L. Rudenstine's announcement on May 22 that he would step...

The Empress of Domesticity

Displaying humor and an insatiable curiousity about the world, Martha Stewart charmed a Sanders Theatre audience. Photograph by Jim...