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.
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...
Radcliffe Consults Its Compass
The nascent Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, whose structure has gradually evolved from promise to particulars, continued taking shape...
Brevia
Robert E. Rubin U.S. Treasury Coming Attraction The Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be...
Women in Science Redux
Since the summer of 1999, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and its dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, have sought to increase the number...
Questions 101
The countdown began on February 28. I was jogging across Tercentenary Theatre (coincidentally, the site of my impending graduation) when I was...
Fonda Gift Creates Gender Studies Center
In Jane Fonda's latest role, she stars as philanthropist summa cum laude. With a $12.5-million gift to the Graduate School of Education (GSE)...
Bulfinch Magic
Architect Charles Bulfinch performed a death-defying feat in University Hall 188 years ago. He caused to be built a staircase of heavy granite...
The "Invisible University"
Postdocs Tristan Darland (left) and Pamela Kainz at Harvard's Biological Laboratories. Photograph by Jim Harrison They have been...