John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

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

The End of Shopping Week

After much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to replace shopping week with previous-term registration.

by Jonathan Shaw

The illustration shows an empty rowboat floating away and a woman wading toward it, in chest-high water.

The Need for Communal Healing

Coming to terms with personal and pandemic grief

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead

The Long Game

A standout golfer’s patient approach

by Jacob Sweet

Law students at the Commencement exercises

Conferring and Confirming

Harvard’s 371st Commencement, and a celebration for the classes of 2020-2021

by John S. Rosenberg

Honoris Causa

Harvard’s 2022 honorary-degree recipients

Graduates-to-be read the student newspaper, absent a University Gazette

Commencement Confetti

Tidbits from a memorable, celebratory Harvard week

President Lawrence S. Bacow at Commencement May 26, 2022

The Speeches 2022

President Bacow on humility, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on democracy and social media, and Attorney General Merrick Garland on civic engagement and threats to U.S. democracy

Plaque memorializing slaves, placed on Wadsworth House in 2016

Harvard’s Ties to Slavery

A long-awaited, unsparing picture 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ukrainian flag flying at University Hall

Blue, Yellow, Crimson

Harvard responses to the war on Ukraine

by John S. Rosenberg

Sabrineh Ardalan

"On the Ground" With Asylum-Seekers

Sabrineh Ardalan directs Harvard’s Immigration and Refugee Clinic.

by Lydialyle Gibson