John Harvard's Journal

Three joyful graduates in caps and gowns celebrate together outdoors.

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Daniel Donoghue

Humanities Rebooted

Curricular revisions for English and the classics

by Christian Flow

Sally Zeckhauser

University People

Appointments and departures

Brevia

News of the University and the Harvard community

Parenting, Redux

Junior Parents’ Weekend brings The Undergraduate a new perspective on the future.

by Christian Flow

At the Fresh Pond Golf Course in  Cambridge, Emily Balmert ’09 of the women’s golf team—the first Harvard woman to win the Ivy championship—swings into spring.

Class on the Grass

Golfer Emily Balmert, and the women’s varsity team, have reached milestones.

by Craig Lambert

Chasing Bogeys

A novel book on golf

Yesterday's News

Happenings at Harvard in Mays and Junes past

The Rythmeter, circa 1944, came with a more complicated set of instructions than the earlier “scientific prediction dial” (see next image), reflecting increasingly precise knowledge of human reproduction—knowledge that Rock played no small part in advancing.

A Pioneer in Family Planning

A new exhibition honors John C. Rock, the Harvard Medical School professor whose research and advocacy were instrumental in the development of modern fertility treatments and contraception.

"A New Economic Reality"

The University’s financial gap measures in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the Hole

Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.