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

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...

Hoops, Eastern European-style

Fittingly, Emina and Haso Peljto had their first date at a basketball game. The Yugoslavian couple married and had two children, both of whom...

Evelynn M. Hammonds

Evelynn M. Hammonds Photograph by Stu Rosner She grew up in Atlanta, got dual undergraduate degrees from Spelman College in physics...

Rethinking the Divinity School

"The university is very healthy as a whole. The immensely successful Rudenstine presidency has placed us in an excellent position to face...

A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars

The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...

Faculty Perk Sheet

A pdf of the Faculty Perk Sheet by Andy Borowitz '80 is available for download...

Messenger from Pakistan

Amid what administrators and police said was the heaviest security ever for a Harvard speaker, Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, told a...