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.
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...
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...
“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...
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 gonethe...
Decanal Duo
Kathleen McCartney Photograph by Dina Konovalovia/A Dream Picture Kathleen McCartney, Lesser professor in early childhood development...