John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Grade Inflation Resolved
TO: President Lawrence H. Summers FROM: Task Force on Grade Inflation SUBJECT: Findings and Recommendations Illustration by Lynne Foy...
Law School Locale
Harvard Law School (HLS) is carefully weighing the pros and cons of building a new campus for itself in Allston. A "locational...
Reshaping the Science Center
A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will at last be...
Brevia
Past and Present Presidents William Jefferson Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on November 19...
Language Lessons
Former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Elizabeth Gudrais '01 returned from a fellowship in Latvia in December and is now...
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips Reading Room opened for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of...
Back in the Game
In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting with my hastily...
Addie's Plaque, George's Hair
When a construction crew demolished a wall on the east side of the level-2 stacks in Widener during Phase 1 of renovations, they came upon a...
Harvard football undefeated in 2001
After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...
Second in Command
In his installation address on October 12 and in a subsequent talk to alumni 15 days later, President Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that...