John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

The Changing Corporation

The President and Fellows of Harvard College—as the seven-member, self-perpetuating Corporation, the University's senior governing board...

"Veritas"

President Lawrence H. Summers took stock of the ever wetter, colder weather as the Commencement afternoon exercises proceeded and decided to...

Adjudicating Sexual-Assault Cases

Stymied in its attempts to resolve certain student peer complaints—most seriously those alleging sexual assault—the College's...

"Civilization Need Not Die"

At the dinner for honorary-degree recipients the night before Commencement, President Summers characterized Daniel Patrick Moynihan, using one...

University People

From HCF to HBS Under executive director Richard B. Boardman, the Harvard College Fund has become the premier annual giving organization in...

"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"

Although—let us be right out front —there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has...

Government's Deficit Spending

A deficit at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) that in October was projected to reach $2.9 million for the academic year 2001-2002 (see...

Harvard's Financial Aid Failings

"For those moving from warmer climates, inexpensive winter clothing can be purchased at local second-hand clothing stores, consignment...

Brevia

Military Message General Richard B. Myers Photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office "Never before has there been a time when...

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