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

Fineberg to Step Down as Provost

University provost Harvey V. Fineberg, once a leading candidate for Harvard's presidency, has announced his intention to resign his position...

The Summers Scoop

As an extra announcing the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University's next president rolled off the presses of the Harvard...

One Man's Mountain

Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian emphasized the literary qualities of his work, not the political conditions that make him an exile from his...

The Search, Summarized

The quest for Harvard's twenty-seventh president took shape last July, following Neil L. Rudenstine's announcement on May 22 that he would step...

The Empress of Domesticity

Displaying humor and an insatiable curiousity about the world, Martha Stewart charmed a Sanders Theatre audience. Photograph by Jim...

Cataloging Library Needs

Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College Library...

Classics, Old and New

Harvard celebrated two architectural triumphs this winter: University Hall, one of its oldest buildings, has been sensitively updated...

A College Report Card

Much about the College's appearance -- undergraduate enrollment, the residential Houses -- remains constant. But a sense of underlying...

Harvard to Applicants: Chill!

How often does the admissions staff of an elite university advise prospective applicants that they "are not judged simply by the number of AP or other advanced credits amassed at the end of senior year"...

Brevia

More than 660 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape prints have been added to the Harvard University Art Museums collection...