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

A Call to Service

Near the start of his address, journalist Jim Lehrer, who collects bus memorabilia, gave a splendid rendition of a Trailways boarding call...

Fleeting Fame

Kaavya Viswanathan’s 15 minutes of fame proved unusually nasty and brutish as well as short. Publicity profiles anticipating the...

Jens Meierhenrich

A very long bookshelf in Jens Meierhenrich’s Harvard office holds a complete transcript of the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals, in...

Zen, and Other Journeys

 Recently, my mom was putting books onto a new bookshelf when a red one fell to the floor. “What is this?” she asked, in a...

by Elizabeth S. Widdicombe

International Investments

Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end...

Down-under Dominator

Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem prepossessing. The young Aussie stands five feet, two...

by Craig Lambert

“The Excitement of Science”

In the fall of 2003, Juliet Girard ’07 arrived at Harvard with first-rate scientific ambitions and a second-rate education. She had grown...

by Nathan Heller

Play Ball

Baseball Harvard (21-20-1 overall) finished the Ivy season with the league’s best record, 14-6, winning the tough Red Rolfe division by...

Business School’s Guiding Light

Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management, was named dean of Harvard Business School (HBS)—the ninth since its founding...

The Stadium, Returfed

Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on natural grass at Harvard Stadium since 1903 is over and gone—the...