John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Memorial minute for Laurence Wylie, scholar of French civilization
As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues...
Expanding the Professoriate
Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is unlikely...
The Harvard Dot-Com Boom
A reflective look at Harvard students navigating the late-1990s dot-com boom and startup culture
Orchid Peeping
An exhibition probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14...
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...