John Harvard's Journal
Highlights from Harvard’s Past
The rise of Cambridge cyclists, a lettuce boycott, and Julia Child’s cookbooks
The B.A. Diploma from A to Z
The first Harvard diploma in English instead of Latin appeared in 1961. When word of the abandonment of Latin came through in April, it touched...
Brevia
Bettering Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford...
Woodruff Named ART Artistic Director
Robert Woodruff will succeed Robert Brustein as artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre (ART), President Neil L. Rudenstine...
Profiting from the Human Genome
Consider this little known fact: academic institutions hold more gene patents than the top 25 pharmaceutical companies and all biotech companies...
Jumping English-style
They make an odd sight on the sidewalk. Rising at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, the riders don their high black leather boots, jodhpurs, hunt...
Spring into Sports
Track and Field Senior Brenda Taylor (see "Sprinter, Taylor, Hurdler (High)," May-June, page 83), ran a personal best 55.88 seconds to...
The 350th Leadership
It was a sollemnia semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions...
2001 Harvard honorary degrees
Three women and eight men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were:...
Commencement Confetti
A tipping of caps to John Harvard. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, leading, told seniors at their baccalaureate service, "All of the muses are...