John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

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...

A Dean for All Weathers

When he announced on February 11 that he would relinquish the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship this June, Jeremy R. Knowles signaled...

The Oddest Streak in Rowing

The Harvard men's lightweight crew boasts one of the most consistent records of excellence in college sports. Consider the May regatta that...

Weighing In

What lies ahead for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? What are the most important qualities for its next dean? Who would be the ideal candidate?...

Jack Barnaby: A Remembrance

There is a T-shirt in my vast collection that I take out only on special occasions: on the front it reads, JACK BARNABY'S 80TH/ SEPTEMBER 23...