John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Steady State

Diversification pays. So do effective investment disciplines. Those are the two signal lessons from recent Harvard Management Company (HMC)...

Crimson, White, and Blue

On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...

by Garrett M. Graff

Watertown-Gown

Harvard has reached an agreement to pay $480 million over 52 years to neighboring Watertown, Massachusetts, where in May 2001 the University...

Taut and Suspenseful

In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the football team fell to Lehigh, 36-35, in the final minute of...

by Bethell, John T

Curriculum Czar

Propelled by the cataclysm of World War II—and a half-dozen years of prior study of the undergraduate curriculum—a faculty committee...

Fall Sports

Field Hockey The stickwomen (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) got off to a fast start, knocking off Penn, Brown, and Yale in their first three Ivy contests...

Capitalism Campaign

Harvard Business School (HBS), established in 1908, on September 21 formally launched its first capital campaign. The timing might not seem...

Jonathan and Christine Seidman

As youngsters they were far apart—he spent much of his youth in Ghana, she grew up on Long Island—but they met at Harvard, married in...

Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome

For more than 20 years, military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the...

Veritas Values

Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies—the group formed in response to the "living wage...