John Harvard's Journal

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

The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Sportive Spring

Spring sports roundup

Commencement Confetti

Student linen-crew workers made up the dorm beds that would welcome reunioners. Some beds were then changed as alumni departed and new ones...

Cat, Frog, Worm...

The principal speakers during Commencement week 2000 said much about the value of reasoned inquiry, the importance of universities as a home for...

Rudenstine Will Step Down

Neil L. Rudenstine, whose service as Harvard's twenty-sixth president began July 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end...

Distance Learning @Harvard.edu

New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning ventures may lead to serious upheavals...

The Adaptive Law of the Land

In an exaltation of deans, the acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the institute's dean-elect welcomed dean of...

Back to the Drawing Board

Big building projects head back to the drawing board

University People

Prize professors...

Dean Murphy Moves On

Dean moves on

Digital-age Policy

Who owns Harvard courses? Professors? The University?...