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

Quest for the Best

How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?...

Crimson Wrestlers Rising

The ascent of Harvard's wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the...

The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899

Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or not—let it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

The New Medicine

Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School...

Brevia

Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and...

The Finish Line

Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its...

Memorial minute for Laurence Wylie, scholar of French civilization

As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues...

Expanding the Professoriate

Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is unlikely...

The Harvard Dot-Com Boom

A reflective look at Harvard students navigating the late-1990s dot-com boom and startup culture

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Orchid Peeping

An exhibition probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14...