John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
Splendid Spring Sports
Crew The heavyweight men won their third consecutive national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) regatta in Camden, New...
Thomas W. Lentz
In the early 1980s, when Thomas W. Lentz was earning a Ph.D. at Harvard by becoming an expert on Islamic art—Persian painting in...
An American in Paris
More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two...
Debating Gender
Following President Lawrence H. Summers’s comments last January on women’s interests and aptitudes as they might affect careers in...
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finallyfinallyI am hitting my stride. “In...
Yesterday's News
1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting...
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized...
Scientific Ambitions
Preliminary land-use plans for campus development in Allston have yet to be subjected to public review and comment (see “Allston Options:...
Honoris Causa
Two women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 354th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the...
Maxine Kumin
On Arts First weekend, poet Maxine Kumin ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the...