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

Matt Gilmore, sitting behind the wheel of a Zamboni

A quest for perfect ice

Harvard’s Zamboni operators’ quest for the perfect sheet of ice

by Jacob Sweet

Photo of labor law experts Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

Rewriting labor law from a clean slate

A Harvard Law School initiative calls for a revitalized labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of Harvard graduate students during their strike

Harvard graduate students go on strike

HGSU-UAW members go out on strike two days before reading period. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of major construction projects in Harvard Square

Harvard Square under reconstruction

A familiar place’s new faces

Photograph of art historian Shawon Kinew

Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard faculty divestment debate and Overseer challenge

A faculty debate, and a challenge slate for the Board of Overseers

by John S. Rosenberg

Drawing of Harvard and Oregon football players at the Rose Bowl, with the goalposts depicted at two long-stemmed red roses with a bar between them

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Honoring artists and writers

An appreciation for outstanding work

Harvard’s fiscal year 2019 endowment returns by asset class

Harvard’s budget surpluses and endowment challenges

An analysis of the annual financial report, and of Harvard Management Company’s transformation

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph of Harvard athletics director Robert L. Scalise

Sexual-misconduct survey results, athletics director to retire

Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire

by Jonathan Shaw