John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
Fast Start
Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust has launched...
David Williams
David Williams studies how social factors affect health. Education and income affect health, that’s clear. But why, as is the case, should...
Science's “Third Branch”
Why are doctors from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital working with Harvard astrophysicists? And why is Professor Jeff Lichtman...
Ethics in Practice
Every Tuesday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government, over lunch, a group of 10 people debates ethical questions that, in one form or...
Faculty for Freshman Seminars
Ungraded freshmen seminars, introduced in 1959, were intended to introduce new College students to faculty members and to a...
Ready for Growth?
Harvard proposes to put shovels in the ground not only to build a new campus in Allston but, far more modestly, to put up a research and...
Yesterday's News
1912 Mrs. George D. Widener reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with...
Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to...
Yesterday's News
1922 Heywood Broun ’10, in a column reprinted in the Bulletin, rues the fact that Harvard is no longer the literary center it once was...
Portfolio-Manager Paychecks
The compensation for the most highly paid endowment investment managersthe subject of criticism and debate in recent yearstook on a...