John Harvard's Journal

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

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

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...

by Bethell, John T

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...

Sisters in Thin Air

The tallest group of women ever to play basketball for Harvard is now on the court. They're not just high, but mighty: "This is potentially...

Women in the Sciences

Five professors and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are jointly pursuing creative approaches to a persistent problem: the...

Fall Sports Synopsized

Women’s Soccer Undefeated in the ivies, the Crimson side (14-2-1 overall, 6-0-0 Ivy) won their fourth league title in five years...

Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed

Value of Endowment, Average Salaries, and other statistics; 1990 and 2000.