John Harvard's Journal

Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

Don Share

Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share...

The Law School Looks Ahead

The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer interaction between professors and students, especially during their...

Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"

When he was a graduate student at Harvard, recalls Richard Light, Ph.D. '69, resources for learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard Offers Peace Pipe

Butch Thunderhawk, a Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North...

Research Roster

Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received $429 million in sponsored-research support...

Weighing In on Wages

The committee appointed May 8 by then-president Neil L. Rudenstine to study wages and job opportunities for Harvard's lower-paid workers is...

Putting the Science in Social Science

Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt wants you to say...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Loss

One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel...

by Kirstin Butler

Trove of Tomes

On a Saturday in April, two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law...

Arts Transition

At a special dinner in May, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles ended his lighthearted remarks by presenting a pair of gifts...