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.

by Dick Friedman

Headlines from Harvard history, November-December 1915-1985

1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Illustration by Mark Steele 1930...

Baker Library, Renewed

Baker Library at the Business School reopened officially on September 19 after a two-year makeover. The new facility was designed by Robert A.M...

Gore Vidal, Lost and Found

Like many stories, this one began at an improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see...

Better-than-Balanced Books

Faster revenue growth, plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal...

The Harvard Review

Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review (https://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview) is a biannual, 200-page literary journal that includes poetry...

Generous Givers

Donations to the University totaled $590 million in the fiscal year ended June 30 — the second highest sum in Harvard’s history...

Brevia

Finding a FellowThe search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation...

Premier Physicist

Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, has a new title: Nobel laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of...

Reality 101

I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t know what inspired me to choose the pointy black pair with elastic...

by Elizabeth S. Widdicombe

$tellar Swan Song

Ending his 15-year run as president of Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. ’69, and his investment colleagues turned in a...