John Harvard's Journal
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Health by the Numbers
"How many of you agree with the statement, 'Health is priceless'?" A robust show of hands. "How many of you went jogging this...
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...
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...
Burned at the Buzzer
The big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl...
Network for the Next Generation
The surveillance area of Harvard's network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at...