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

Polo Renaissance

Yes, there was one gleaming black Bentley (but only one) parked on the greensward at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. True...

Counting the War Dead

How lethal are modern methods of warfare? Political scientists affiliated with the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)—the...

New Harvard Graduate School of Design dean Mohsen Mostafavi

Expect bold ideas from Mohsen Mostafavi when he begins his term as dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD). On a late September visit to...

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...

Ledecky Fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year

Photograph by Jim Harrison Liz Goodwin and Samuel Bjork Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the...

Powers of the Pitch

Deep into the second half of the NCAA soccer playoff game against SUNY Binghamton last fall, with the score tied 1-1, Harvard forward...

Rugger Mothers

I was a hooker at Harvard. It wasn’t what I expected from college, but I fell in with a crowd of foul-mouthed girls who spent Saturdays...