John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

Portrait of Claudine Gay, dean of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Faculty Faces Its Future

Better results than expected during the pandemic, and a sweeping effort to plan for academic improvements

by John S. Rosenberg

News Briefs

Legacies challenged, campus sustainability, affirmative-action litigation, and honored scientists

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration of a collegiate hero, per Theodore Roosevelt in 1907

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Image of Giant Magellan Telescope design

Brevia

No more Harvard Teacher Fellows, universities and slavery, and more

Culinary Postcards

Food has always been a contentious topic among undergraduates.

by Swathi Kella

Wideout Kym Wimberly hauls in Luke Emge’s third-down, last-seconds, no-timeouts pass to secure Harvard’s thrilling 31-27 victory in The Game.

Harvard Football’s Stolen Ivy Title

The Crimson’s final win should have clinched an Ivy championship.

by Dick Friedman

Photo of new Harvard campus shuttle electric bus

Brevia

Campus shuttle’s electric buses, planning chief, and other news

Campus, Interrupted

The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart. 

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella

Jon Sot punts a football.

Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History

Jon Sot “flips the field” and the Crimson excel early.

by Dick Friedman

Photograph of Houghton Library’s renovated reading room

Reopening. . .Carefully

Resuming Harvard in residence, with continuing coronavirus cautions

by John S. Rosenberg