John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Planning for a North Precinct

Harvard's last great open space in Cambridge is a parking lot, not far from the Biological Laboratories, that stretches all the way from Oxford...

Steel and Skin

Rising at 60 Oxford Street is the University Information Services Building. Stepped-down on the Hammond Street side, the building, designed...

Toward Gender and Sexuality Studies?

Is there room within Harvard's curricular cornucopia to house formal academic work on gender and sexuality studies? The question is being posed...

Double Vision

Having experienced their own twenty-fifth reunion last year, twin brothers Mark and Steve O'Donnell ('76 and '76, respectively) offer these...

Underhanded Undergraduates

Their friends began to ask questions long before the prosecutors did. Suzanne M. Pomey '02 and Randy J. Gomes '02 seemed to be spending money a...

by Garrett M. Graff

Crimson Women

Two years in the making, the Women's Guide to Harvard was distributed to students—women and men alike—at the beginning of spring term...

Brevia

Photograph by Jim Harrison Sit-ins = Suspension On February 28, President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new interpretation of the...

Bear Market

In recent years, the annual fall career forum at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center has been one of the most conspicuous displays of the many...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Short, Stubby, Sexy

The little green car nosed its way into the concrete lobby of the Graduate School of Design in late January. At Harvard for a two-month visit to...

Harvard-Yale Boat Race Turns 150

The sesquicentennial of college athletics in America takes place June 8 on the Thames (rhymes with "James") River in New London...