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

Allston Advances

When four faculty task forces finished their reports on Allston this May, the development scenario outlined in an October 2003 letter by...

Sponsored-Research Funds

Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard's operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the...

Johnson and Friends Arrive en Masse

One of the world's most important private collections of eighteenth-century English literature — with the lexicographer, author, critic...

Aiding Financial Aid

Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard's efforts to encourage public service; help students...

La Vida at Harvard

This April, the inaugural issue of La Vida Guide to Harvard highlighted the College's thriving Latino community. In the wake of the popular...

Cole Porter to Coolio

They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...

by Lee Hudson Teslik

Mr. Inside

There's a spacious aerie called the "penthouse" atop the Littauer Building at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and it was...

The Wizard of Backstage

Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the French Romantic play Lorenzaccio on the Loeb Drama Center's main...

by Craig Lambert

John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here

For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Home-plate Security

On April 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), James Alexander...