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

Judith Palfrey

On a ward at Children's Hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying...

Endowment Encore... and More?

The Harvard Corporation has authorized another large increase in the distribution of funds from the endowment to support...

Not Building by the Book

With 90 Mount Auburn Street, avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural "gems"...

Elbow Room

Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles starts his annual letter to faculty colleagues...

Tangible Learning in a Virtual World

Years ago Gerald Lesser, now Bigelow professor of education and developmental psychology emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), was a key player in the development of the children's television show Sesame Street.

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...