John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
“House-Poor”
An unusual “Dean’s Letter on the Finances of the Faculty,” presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on October 17...
A New Script for One L
The experience of first-year students at Harvard Law School, famously chronicled by survivors Scott Turow, J.D. ’78, in One L, and John J...
Yesterday’s News
1917 — T.W. Lamont ’92, chairman of the Harvard Endowment Committee, announces a novel plan to raise $10 million for the permanent...
Medicine Man
When Joseph B. Martin relinquishes the deanship of Harvard Medical School (HMS) at the end of the academic year—a decision announced on...
Legal Legroom
An aerial view of the proposed new building, looking northwest from a vantage point above the Science Center Rendering courtesy of...
Exemplary Contributors
With great pleasure, the editors recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine during 2006, awarding each $1,000 for their distinguished...
A general-education proposal to replace Harvard’s Core curriculum is debated
After three years of inconclusive work on a new general-education component for the College, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to...
Faculty, Family, Diversity
In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to the dean on diversity issues has highlighted recent...
Curriculum, Classroom, Competence
While acknowledging that the curriculum is the faculty’s “sacred domain,” President Derek Bok nonetheless said at the October...
Part History, Part Literature
In 1906, Professor Barrett Wendell ’77 created a program in history and literature for Harvard undergraduates. In a later speech to the...
by Casey N. Cep