John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
Harvard College Enrollment by Ethnicity and Year
Source: Harvard Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional...
Presidential Portrait
On the chill, blustery afternoon of May 1, a piece of Harvard’s living history lit up the Faculty Room in University Hall. The occasion...
Israel and Academia
On March 23, the London Review of Books published a long essay on “The Israel Lobby,” by Harrison distinguished service professor of...
Quantum Leap for Engineering
Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) may soon become a full-fledged school of engineering, under a plan presented...
University People
Commencement Speaker Jim Lehrer Courtesy of WSIU-TV Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
Precedent-Setting Presidential Search
The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release...
Yesterday’s News
1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter...
Scholars’ Haven
Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from Rwanda remains under investigation. Two...
Military Recruiting Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military recruiting on...
Women's Center
At the end of a year that has seen various plans for the College (including the curricular review) mark time or unravel, matters are quietly...