John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
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...
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...
Congo Report
The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to...
Scanning Species
On June 26, 1974, merchandise tracking was revolutionized with a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The gum package, today...
Brevia
Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of...
Deep Dig
This enormous excavation might tempt Virginia Lee Burton, who lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, when she wrote Mike Mulligan and His Steam...
Women in the Sciences
In its report issued in May, the University's Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering dramatically highlighted the "leaky...
Diversity Director
Evelynn M. Hammonds has become Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She will direct implementation...
Head Booter
Grinning, the new head coach of women’s soccer, 29-year-old Stephanie Erickson, says she has friends “who would call me a typical...