John Harvard's Journal

Cozy nook with a patterned rug and various colorful pillows against wooden walls.

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard’s Truman Jones (90) and Khalil Dawsey corral Yale running back Joshua Pitsenberger.

Ups and Downs

Kings of the road, the football team struggled at home—and in The Game.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana at Freshman Convocation

“We Will All Be Arguing”

Convocation and Morning Prayers messages about free speech and fruitful airing of differences

by Lydialyle Gibson , Jonathan Shaw

Giang Nguyen

Giang Nguyen

The HUHS executive director’s public health background prepared him well for the pandemic.

by Jonathan Shaw

Official portrait of Lawrence H. Summers

Portraying Larry Summers

Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

by John S. Rosenberg

A man in a wetsuit helps an astronaut out of an Apollo capsule floating in the ocean

Apollo 17 Turns 50

Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Humorous illustration of campus police seeing late-night daters’ final kiss

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Archon Fung and Meredith Weenick, chairs of faculty and staff advisory committees for Harvard presidential search

Brevia

Presidential search, boat house rebuilding, giant telescope, M.B.A. aid, and more

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at Kempner Institute debut

Science Surges

Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations

Defensive lineman Thor Griffith, a junior, celebrating two sacks and a game-high nine tackles against Merrimack

Great Expectations

Picked to win the 2022 Ivy championship, the football team got off to a solid start.

by Dick Friedman

Alex Tsotadze, men’s water polo co-captain, in action

Scoring Moves

Alex Tsotadze’s water polo reads and rips

by Jacob Sweet