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

Cartoon of John Harvard figure ice skating at Harvard Law School

Yesterday’s News

Harvard Law School: the skating rink

Claudia Goldin, Nobel laureate

News in Brief

Nobel laureate in economics, public-health dean, breaking ground in Allston, and more

FAS: Faculty and Fisc

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s fisc—and aging professoriate

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard's 2023 Fiscal Year

Harvard sustains a fiscal 2023 operating surplus—and endowment returns turn (modestly) positive.

by John S. Rosenberg

Tom Hyry photographed in Houghton Library

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick

On Your Behalf

Honoring Harvard Magazine contributing writers and artists

Sidewalk chalk, image of a dove of peace crying about lost civilian lives

The Dogs of War

Harvard’s reactions to Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s response

Harvard sophomore safety Ty Bartrum runs an intercepted St. Thomas pass back 96 yards for a touchdown.

Exceeding Expectations

Footballers’ fast, impressive start

by Dick Friedman

City skyline with construction of skyscrapers in the foreground

Real Estate by Design

A new Graduate School of Design degree

by John S. Rosenberg

Humorous illustration of Harvard Yard with Widener Library and University Hall; between the two buildings there is a swimming pool and people enjoying the pool.

Yesterday’s News

Courses in swimming pool management and table-waiting—with an eye toward summer employment