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...
Commencement Confetti
Courtesy Kevin A. "KAL" Kallaugher '77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion...
Free Speech: Testing
So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of...
Rethinking 90 Mount Auburn
Harvard plans to erect a new building on Mount Auburn Street beside the Fox Club (foreground). Harvard has tapped Leers Weinzapfel...
Scenes from Commencement
Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first...
In from the Margins
The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers's first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen...
Study Abroad, Honors at Home
The faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has made it easier for Harvard College students to study abroad, and more difficult to earn academic...
Honor Roll
Prized Professors From left to right: Stephen Rosen, William Todd III, Jeremy Bloxham, and Marc Hauser Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office...
"Of Faith and Citizenship"
I am one of you. But I am also one of "them." What do I mean? When I am told that this is a world at war, a war between the great civilizations...
The Changing Corporation
The President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeas the seven-member, self-perpetuating Corporation, the University's senior governing board...