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.
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...
Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001
Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001
Science and Politics and Stem Cells
Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally...
Wage Wrangling
The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum...
Addressing Allston
The wish list for Harvard's recently acquired 100 acres in Allston is long and growing: graduate-student housing, a museum, conceivably a whole...
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...
Education Angels
His nine-year deanship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concluded, Jerome T. Murphy still fizzes with ideas about public schooling...
University People
Richard E. Oldenburg '54 was elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2001-2002, his last year of service on the board. He succeeded...