John Harvard's Journal

Padimut at Harvard

A rare Egyptian mummy case is on display at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Creating Community, On-line and Off

The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers.Robert John Bennett '68, who's writing a novel on-line, posted...

Recruiting vs. Rights

The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers.Robert John Bennett '68, who's writing a novel on-line, posted...

Design Dean to Step Down

Peter G. Rowe, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) since 1992, announced in October his intention to step down at the end of this...

“People Who Look like You”

Sitting on a radiator in a Science Center corridor, Deborah A. Batts '69, J.D. '72, who is U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New...

by Nathan Heller

Aiming at Alcohol

When the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last spring, it pointedly observed...

Brevia

Not So Hasty Renovation The Hasty Pudding Theatricals building at 12 Holyoke Street, owned by Harvard since 2000, is inching toward a badly...

Extracurricular Communities

I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...

by Rebecca O’Brien

Rebounding Returns

A powerful fourth-quarter rally led by fixed-income portfolios yielded a total return of 12.5 percent on endowment assets for the fiscal year...

Rethinking Education

Harvard's chief pedagogues are going back to class. The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is pursuing changes in its curriculum and internal...

Calendrical Coup?

The curriculum may be remade, plans for Allston refined and implemented, but no monument to administrative accomplishment at Harvard would equal...