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

Daunting Debts

Education is like a garden, explains Carol Strickland, a sixth-year student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). "You can't plant a...

by Garrett M. Graff

Harvard Girl

For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status for Ivy...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Sandra Grindlay

Seen here [this photograph not available on-line] at the Fogg Art Museum with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, is Sandra Grindlay...

Sailing: Broad Reach

They buy their subway tokens and ride two stops to Kendall, then walk to the Harvard Sailing Center, on the river near MIT. The sailing team...

by Craig Lambert

Counting the Costs

What would it take to address the financial problems of particularly needy students who want to pursue their graduate or professional education...

Spring Sports

Men's Crew The Crimson decisively swept the Harvard-Yale boat race (the varsity winning by 41.3 seconds), to cap a strong season. The men's...

An Asia Expert for Arts and Sciences

The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President Lawrence H. Summers...

"Humiditas"

Sodden ones. In Tercentenary Theatre candidates for the degree of doctor of dental medicine await the conferring of their credentials...

Honoris Causa

Three women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 351st Commencement, a constellation of luminaries larger than in any year since...

Commencement Confetti

Courtesy Kevin A. "KAL" Kallaugher '77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion...