John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

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...

The '01 Scholars

Harvard garnered no American Rhodes Scholarships this year, but dodged the null set...

From Cybercafes to Classrooms

Virtual reality in the classroom

Over There

Geoffrey A. Fowler '00, who served as one of this magazine's Ledecky undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England...

The Graduate School Agenda

Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Fong of Ping-Pong

The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now...

by Craig Lambert