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

Killer Killar

Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar's season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165...

Mental Health Services Examined

In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a...

Athletes of Winter

Women’s Hockey At midseason, the defending national champion Crimson stickwomen (13-2-2, 11-2-2 ECAC) retained their number-one ranking...

Where the Bones Are

Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and...

Beyond the Budget

"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for...

School for Scholars

In what must have been Harvard's highest-level continuing-education course on higher education, presidents of seven universities in the People's...

A Student in Beijing

Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat toilets. Metal meal tins. White bureaucratic slips of paper with red...

"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50

In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space...

by Craig Lambert

Brevia

Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story)...

Outside Interests

There are some ways in which Harvard College, for all its history and prestige, is a normal college with normal students. The undergraduates are...

by Caille Millner