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

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...

The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval

A strong year for investors generally was a very strong year for the University. Harvard Management Company (HMC), concluding its first full...

Concentration Complications

Of all the difficult decisions one confronts as an undergraduate, the selection of concentration is perhaps the hardest. Fortunately, it is also...

by Samuel Bjork

An Unexpected Risk Factor

One risk to continued strong endowment performance not addressed in Mohamed A. El-Erian’s annual letter was the uncertainty arising from...

Lights! Camera! Action!

It’s now 104 years old, but after a three-stage, $5-million makeover, Harvard Stadium may be one of the nation’s best-equipped...

by Craig Lambert

Janet Browne

Photograph by Harrison Janet Browne When Darwin biographer Janet Browne emigrated from University College London a year ago to become Aramont...