John Harvard's Journal

Cozy nook with a patterned rug and various colorful pillows against wooden walls.

At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Beyond Cambridge

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The '01 Scholars

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

3D graph with colorful curves and arrows showing complex motion in a coordinate system.

From Cybercafes to Classrooms

Virtual reality in the classroom

Geoffrey Fowler in the other Cambridge, minding where he walks, finding time for friendships and tea, and punting--a skill he never learned at Harvard despite living in Eliot House, hard by the Charles.

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...

All the Would-Be Presidents' People

The presidential candidates' lawyerly advisers

Crimson on the Hill

Crimson Congresspersons

Orlando Patterson on Freedom and our sick democracy

America's troubled democracy

Yenching Plundered

Chinese books stolen

Remote-Controlled Library

Accessing the libraries online

Grandel's Playhouse to Wax, Hasty Pudding to Wane

Square theaters new and old