John Harvard's Journal

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

Globalization Defended

Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers delivered this year's Edwin...

Commencement Confetti

VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary degrees, and 290 certificates at its 352nd Commencement. Diplomas went...

Social Investing

In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC)...

Respecting the Future

I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when I arrived in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh...

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

On Undergraduate Education

(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...

Caryn Davies is a champion rower

At the end of every e-mail from Caryn Davies '04 is a quotation from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: "You see, I want a lot./Perhaps I want...

by Craig Lambert

Tennis Rampant

The Harvard men's and women's tennis teams were both undefeated in the Ivy League this spring. The women (19-4, 7-0 Ivy) had the best winning...