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

Track Coach Haggerty Retires

Frank Haggerty ’68, head coach of men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field since 1982 and assistant coach for seven...

The Way Forward

What can Harvard learn from the administration of Lawrence H. Summers—cut short of its expected duration, and short of achieving many of...

Spring Lax Snapshots

Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their Ivy opener and captured a thrilling triple-overtime 8-7 win over...

Bolstering Business

The first Harvard Business School (HBS) capital campaign, launched publicly in the fall of 2002, ended on December 31, having raised at least 20...

Swashbuckling National Champions

The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win the NCAA national championship, the first in program history, in Houston...

Aid Augmented

To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income families, Harvard has extended the financial-aid initiative it...

A Presidency’s Early End

After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were...

Kevin Eggan

Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental...

Weighing In

The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even...

Gender Gains

In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges...