John Harvard's Journal

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Getting and Spending

The University’s annual financial accounting—usually a forbidding and retrospective document—this year sports a new look and...

Yesterday's News

1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships for freshmen from southern and western states to ensure greater diversity within...

Faculty Well-Being: A Status Report

For the first time, Harvard has asked its faculty members how happy they are. A survey conducted last November by the two-year-old Office of...

"First Day of School" for Engineering

With speeches and feasting, Harvard celebrated the launch of its new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on September 20. During a...

Gender and Minority Metrics

The report from the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity published this summer also contains the third annual accounting of gender and...

Directing Development

Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has been appointed the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Drew...

Venturing into China

The Harvard China Fund, established in 2006 to strengthen the University’s academic connections with the People’s Republic, has made...

Anniversary Announcements

No one knows when John Harvard was born, but a record book from Southwark Cathedral in London announces his baptism there on November 29, 1607...

"Knitt Together...As One"

I stand honored by your trust, inspired by your charge. I am grateful to the Governing Boards for their confidence, and I thank all of you for...

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Brevia

2+2 = M.B.A. Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched a deferred-admissions program for future M.B.A. candidates, aiming to attract...