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.
University Housing on the Rise
More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...
Yesterday's News
1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard...
A Humanist Who Knows Corn Flakes
Homi Bhabha tells a story about corn flakes to illustrate the relevance of the humanities to international commerce. “For many years in...
Provost Positions
The provost’s office (www.provost.harvard.edu) continues to add staff to cover more areas of University-wide planning and coordination...
The Shrouds of Cambridge
Perhaps the best business on campus this summer was the rental concession for scaffolding and the rolls of plastic mesh used to wrap building...
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...