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

"A Force on the Ice"

There has been a Moore on the ice for Harvard since 1996, when Mark Moore '00 matriculated. His brothers, Steve '01 and Dominic '03, followed...

by Craig Lambert

Undergraduate Update

Propelled by faculty interest and prodded by Harvard's new president, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to be embarked on an...

Fall Sports in Brief

The men's soccer team (10-5-1, 5-2 Ivy) finished third in the Ivies, having reeled off a five-game winning streak in midseason. The booters...

David Carrasco

In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology...

WWI Women Remembered

In a Veterans Day service at Memorial Church on November 11, Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, spoke of the...

The Gamut of Grades from A to B

Slightly more than half the grades given to Harvard undergraduates during the past three academic years have been A or A-. More than any other...

A Scientific Windfall for the University?

A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...

Surplus Surge

The black ink continues. For the fiscal year ended June 20, 2001, the University recorded an operating surplus of $164.9 million--37 percent...

The "Nicest Building in the Yard"

For almost three centuries, Massachusetts Hall has stood quietly at the entrance of Harvard Yard. It is perhaps more quintessentially Harvard...

Brevia

CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during...