John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Poetry and Politics

On November 12, two days before poet Tom Paulin was scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture, sponsored by the department of English...

Scoreboard 2.0

"We're never really going to be 'finished' with the website," says John Veneziano, director of sports information, but on-line access...

A-courting They Shall Go

A month before our plans of study came due last May, many of my fellow first-years became frantic. Having to choose our concentrations when we...

by Phoebe Kosman

Tear Down

Ascending a ramp of rubble, a hydraulic excavator tears down the highest walls of what was once Coolidge Hall. Photographs by Jim...

A Satisfying Season

A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field dished the football team's hopes of gaining a second...

Tighter Times

Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, the University's operations produced a...

Seven-Week Itch

Coaches and athletes throughout the Ivy League gnashed their teeth this fall over a new policy that the Ivy presidents put in place last...

Peak Professorships

The ranks of University Professors—Harvard's supreme academic appointment—have changed significantly with the elevation of two faculty...

Winter Sports

Women's Ice HockeyBy early December, the icewomen (7-1, 4-0 ECAC) were ranked first in the nation. Powered by recent Olympians Jennifer...

College Studies

The undergraduate curriculum review now taking shape promises to range widely. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby launched...