John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

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

Elbow Room

Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles starts his annual letter to faculty colleagues...

"Sex" without DeVore

The "Sex" professor's curtain call

For Mental Health at Harvard

Minding student mental health

Upstairs, Downstairs

Students and staff

by Kirstin Butler

Two reading rooms have been created in what were formerly the Widener light courts. Both are within the stack perimeter. Right, the east reading room, where valuable books will be brought to patrons for use in a supervised setting, as in the reading room at Houghton Library.

Decoding Life’s Mysteries

A new center for genomic and life sciences...

Hoopes Hoopla

What undergraduates study in depth

The Wages of Affluence

Endowed affluence

The Unstoppable Botterill

Athletes in front of and beneath the net

by Craig Lambert

Face-to-Face with Faculty

Faculty members and freshmen

Wizard of Treys

Basketball

by Craig Lambert