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

Broadway in His Blood

Ask Michael Mitnick ’06 what kind of singing voice he has and he replies, “A bad one.” Inquire about his piano-playing skill...

by Craig Lambert

Russia Case (and Dust) Settle

Though the two official news releases announced the same agreement, their content diverged sharply regarding the settlement of a long-running...

Loaded for Bear

For pure, sustained excitement in an Ivy League football contest, it would be hard to beat this season’s Harvard-Brown game — or last...

Ronald Kessler

Ronald Kessler Photograph by Stu Rosner In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in...

All-Court Wonder

Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game against Princeton, a tight contest with several lead changes...

by Craig Lambert

Gender Initiatives Gain

The campus discussion about faculty diversity—particularly the academic development and careers of women—that was launched last spring...

Early Autumn Sports

Soccer After a 1-0 loss to Vermont, the men’s side (4-3-1) ran off three wins over Coastal Carolina, Maine, and Fairfield before dropping...

Google Pauses

An undertaking greeted by Harvard librarians as potentially “a revolutionary new information-location tool” and “an important...

Harvard Business School Class of...

Data from an annually updated Harvard Business School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business...

Katrina's Ripples

In response to Hurricane Katrina, Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law...