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

Yesterday's News

1922 Harvard Athletic Association members Fred W. Moore '93 and Frank S. Knapp purchase the capital stock of Leavitt & Peirce Inc., the...

Keeping the Vibes

How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation...

Off the Fast Track

Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard...

The Moral Status of the Embryo

Is a blastocyst—an early-stage human embryo—a person? As part of the University’s efforts to encourage public dialogue about...

Brevia

Top Billing for Two Bills   Kristie Bull / Associated Press William H. Gates III       Charlie Riedel /...

Culture(less) Club

During the year and a half I have spent as a student at Harvard, I’ve been befuddled by tRNA in a Life Sciences 1a lecture, experienced...

by Emma Lind

Disruptive Influences

He was a world-beater before he arrived at Harvard. In 2003, as a new high-school graduate, Greg Cohen ’07 played on the U.S. under-19...

by Craig Lambert

Crimson Intermediary

At a press conference, new Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is flanked by translator Masafumi Hoshino ’02 (left) and...

Construction Gallery

Photograph by Jim Harrison [view larger photograph] Seen from atop William James Hall (and in detailed views below), the...

Icy Pinnacle

She is not just another female Chinese-American Olympic hockey star. Julie Chu ’06 (’07), a two-time Olympic medalist in ice hockey...