John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
In Allston Planning, the Silly Season
Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as three new undergraduate Houses across the Charles River, and expansion...
Room for the Arts?
Photograph by Jim HarrisonFacing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe Institute in 2005, Harvard College dean Benedict Gross...
Joy of Jades
This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the...
Changing Guard at Government
Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye announced in early September that he intends to step down as dean this coming June. Nye...
Close Contact
The college-counseling suite in my high school, with its brochure-laden atrium, drawers of student files, and closed-door conferences, reminded...
Journal Opener
Photograph by Hillel Burger. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Copyright © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College This altar at the...
Life in Counterpoint
Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: Harvard or Juilliard? "It was exasperating," she...
Biomedical Momentum
The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing commitment to life sciences, particularly those involving biomedical research. Three events...
No Answers for O-
The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...