John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
Yesterday's News
1920 The Corporation and Overseers have voted to admit female students to the new Graduate School of Education, which will open its doors in...
Harvard news and notes, early spring 2005
Scientific Ventures Albert J. WeatherheadCelia J. Weatherhead Justin Ide / Harvard News OfficeJustin Ide / Harvard News Office Flexible...
Envisioning Arts and Sciences Anew
In his annual decanal letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), published February 3, William C. Kirby fleshes out the three principal...
Painting across Cultures
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets," wrote British...
The College Reconfigures
Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross announced in early January a series of appointments and new positions intended to manage undergraduate...
Freezing Out the Forwards
The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice hockey...
Seeing Biological Systems Whole
Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a microscope and...
Winter Sports in Brief
Women's Ice Hockey The icewomen (11-6-2) revenged an early 3-2 road loss to Yale with an 11-2 blowout at home in January. Four of the team's six...
Faculty Composition
Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching...
Daytripper
It's hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past...