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

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...

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

Two graduates in caps and gowns playfully duel with pitchforks in a hayfield.

Brevia

Searching for a scientifically literate Harvard president

"Sex" without DeVore

The "Sex" professor's curtain call

For Mental Health at Harvard

Minding student mental health

Upstairs, Downstairs

Students and staff

by Kirstin Butler

Two reading rooms have been created in what were formerly the Widener light courts. Both are within the stack perimeter. Right, the east reading room, where valuable books will be brought to patrons for use in a supervised setting, as in the reading room at Houghton Library.

Decoding Life’s Mysteries

A new center for genomic and life sciences...

Hoopes Hoopla

What undergraduates study in depth