John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
First-year Double-talk
It is one of the paradoxes of the Harvard experience that the admissions process demands self-promotion, but the epilogue to the admissions...
Getting Centered
Almost unnoticed, much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to...
Catcher on the Fly
The game's turning point—and perhaps the play that locked up last year's Ivy football title—came with 6:57 left in the third period...
Neighbors on Edge
Residents bordering Harvard have turned building projects into political battlegrounds. Below, a Harvard rejoinder. More than five...
Historic Henley
Even given the storied history of Harvard crew, it was an unprecedented day. On Sunday, July 7, the final day of the Henley Royal Regatta in...
Developmental Troubles
When the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was disbanded in 2000, it meant the disappearance of the University's largest...
Laura Justine Garwin
Laura Justine Garwin Photograph by Stu Rosner After trumpeting with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society...
Stop the Presses
Harvard has gotten out of the printing business for the third time in its history. On June 17 the University shed the 23 workers composing the...
Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage
Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try Anne Hutchinson, who was banished to Rhode...
H-R History Online
Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary...