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.
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...
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...