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

The display cases at the present Museum of Natural History are much as they were in the nineteenth century. Below left: A noisy air-conditioning unit does its best to maintain conditions suitable for the celebrated glass flowers. Below right: The lack of climate control has cracked the hide of a stuffed animal.

Another Museum Proposed

Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined site in Allston at some time in the not-too-distant future...

A photograph of ice hockey skates seen from the ice

Impresario of Fun

William J. “Bill” Cleary Jr. ’56, All-American, Olympian, head coach, and athletic director.

by Craig Lambert

Kathy Spiegelman

The Politics of Campus Planning

Kathy Spiegelman, once an assistant city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate...

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...

Virtual reality -- once a novelty confined to cybercafes -- can be a powerful tool, when used properly, for teaching Newtonian dynamics and mechanics to fifth- and sixth- graders or helping high-school students learn about electrostatic fields like the one on this page -- a dipole shown with test charge traces and field lines. Faculty members at the Graduate School of Education are finding exciting new ways of harnessing technology for pedagogic purposes.

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.

Not President Eliot's five-foot shelf. By this summer, the majority of Widener's collections will be stored off site in the Harvard Depository. How are users to have access to them?

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...