John Harvard's Journal

Highlights from Harvard’s Past

The rise of Cambridge cyclists, a lettuce boycott, and Julia Child’s cookbooks

Roundup of recent Harvard news

Short takes on recent news

Why Harvard Needs to Get Harder

If courses aren't as exciting as extracurriculars, what’s a college for?

by Christian Flow

New Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Star soccer penalty kicker Lizzy Nichols

Soccer’s Lizzy Nichols has a gift for penalty kicks.

by Craig Lambert

2009 Football preview

Football preview, and Cleat’s blog

Commencement Confetti

Notes and statistics, vital and otherwise

"This Shaking Keeps Us Steady"

The Senior English address

"Producers of Doubt"

President Faust’s address to the alumni

"If You Love Rats"

The Harvard Medical School Class Day address

"Days With the Family Realist"

A poem for the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises