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

Questions 101

The countdown began on February 28. I was jogging across Tercentenary Theatre (coincidentally, the site of my impending graduation) when I was...

by Kirstin Butler

Fonda Gift Creates Gender Studies Center

In Jane Fonda's latest role, she stars as philanthropist summa cum laude. With a $12.5-million gift to the Graduate School of Education (GSE)...

Harvard to Applicants: Chill!

How often does the admissions staff of an elite university advise prospective applicants that they "are not judged simply by the number of AP or other advanced credits amassed at the end of senior year"...

Brevia

More than 660 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape prints have been added to the Harvard University Art Museums collection...

The '01 Scholars

Harvard garnered no American Rhodes Scholarships this year, but dodged the null set...

From Cybercafes to Classrooms

Virtual reality in the classroom

Over There

Geoffrey A. Fowler '00, who served as one of this magazine's Ledecky undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England...

The Graduate School Agenda

Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Fong of Ping-Pong

The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now...

by Craig Lambert