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

Art Museum Two-Step

The museum of modern and contemporary art that Harvard plans to build in Allston will have to wait. In September, the Harvard Corporation...

Nobelists of Note

Five alumni—two of them former faculty members—and the recipient of an honorary doctorate were among those to whom Nobel Prizes were...

Global Gains

Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard’s engagement with the world widened significantly during...

Brevia

Public Health Dean Steps Down Photograph by Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office Barry R. Bloom Barry R. Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of...

Teaching and Learning Abroad

Mollie wright ’09 expected to spend her summer in Costa Rica teaching English. She was, after all, a volunteer for WorldTeach, a...

Applying Yourself

On a hot September day in 2004, President Lawrence H. Summers was addressing the large group of newly arrived freshmen and their parents about...

by Liz Goodwin

Approaching the Arts Anew

Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a...

Storybook Ending

Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a...

by Bethell, John T

Theatrical Debut

Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) returns to its historic home this year for its 160th production. (Since the inaugural show in 1844, the group...

Gyroball Historian

In the fall, the Tokyo publisher Asahi Shinsho released a new title in Japanese, loosely translated as The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s...