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

Harvard on Housing

Deepening its involvement in Boston and Cambridge, Harvard has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news...

The Provost Meets the Press...

Harvey v. Fineberg '67, M.D. '71, M.P.P. '72, Ph.D. '80, who had served as dean of the School of Public Health since 1984, was appointed...

Bruce Jenkins

As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has...

Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin

How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the...

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...