John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
In the Temper of the Times
To those who have seen many of them, this year's Commencement day seemed a sober affair, fit for the gray skies and gray times. The customary...
Honoris Causa
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement...
Commencement Confetti
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)"Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas," President...
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan's 2004 Harvard Commencement address
Read the 2004 Commencement address by United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Addition by Subtraction
Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the...
Brevia
Treasurer-electJames F. Rothenberg '68, M.B.A. '70, has been elected Treasurer and a member of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. He...
Going Home Again
The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester...
The Newest Rhodes
The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is Harvard's seventh Rhodes Scholarship winner for 2004 (see "The Rhodes...
The Swinging Lingmans
In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their own sex. Still, the men's and women's teams root for each other...