John Harvard's Journal

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Diggin' It: Summer in Cambridge

Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...

For the Virtual Museumgoer

The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted...

Case Dismissed

When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance...

Pushing Civil Rights

In the spring of 1996, the appellate court decision in Hopwood v. Texas landed like a thunderclap in higher education. The Fifth Circuit, which...

by Garrett M. Graff

How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear

Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth keeping safe, such as photographs of one's wedding; or those fading...

America's Stake in the Multilateral World

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of...

Brevia

Robert W. IulianoJon Chase / Harvard News OfficeHarvard's AttorneyAfter serving as acting vice president and general counsel during the...

Brevia

Dental Doings Dave Destroche Three decades and more after its 11,000-square-foot “interim” building was created, the Harvard...

Auden and the Little Things

We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939." Perhaps you've heard it...

What Crimson Means to Me

My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...

by Garrett M. Graff