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

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...

Harvard Backs After-School Initiative

The blue lights of police cruisers flashed outside Allston's Jackson/Mann elementary school on an early spring morning. "What's going on in...

Genomic Science and Society

Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, visited Harvard Medical School on February 20, one...

Sprinter, Taylor, Hurdler (High)

One of the country's best track athletes, Brenda Taylor gracefully clears an indoor hurdle. Photograph by Jim Harrison The summer...

Andrew W. Murray

Photograph by Jon Chase One week after publication of the human genome, Andrew W. Murray, professor of molecular and cellular biology...

Winter's End

THE HOTTEST SHOT ON ICE Tammy Shewchuck '01 has scored more than anyone else who has ever played ice hockey at Harvard. This year...

Grading Game

Are grades inflated in the College--and does it matter? Debate over these questions is not new (see "Desperately Seeking Summa,&quot...

Medical Quad Times Two

The ceremonial groundbreaking for Harvard Medical School's new research building on February 1 assumes more than ordinary significance. Coming...

Homecoming

The arrangements and itinerary for the election and introduction of Harvard's twenty-seventh president, on Sunday, March 11, hewed to the...