John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

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

Georgina Milne flies through the air, flipping toward the water.

Profile of Harvard diver Georgina Milne

Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.

by Jacob Sweet

A stylized plot of Lorenz's "butterfly effect" model against a black background with gold-toned curves wrapping themselves around unshown x and y axes, resembling the wings of a butterfly

The Undergraduate on power and the denial of scholarship

A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.

by Drew Pendergrass

fencers celebrate a championship win

Harvard fencing squad update

How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard athletic season canceled

A necessary but brutal blow

Chris Lewis, ball in hand, drives past opponent

Harvard basketball season wrap-up

Injuries—and the coronavirus—lead to disappointing basketball seasons.

by David L. Tannenwald

Photograph of student moving out of Eliot House for coronavirus social distancing

Harvard faces coronavirus impact

The sudden dispersal from Cambridge and Boston, Commencement postponed, and the looming financial consequences

by John S. Rosenberg

Photograph of Susan Murphy

Susan Murphy

Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of Bharat Anand

Harvard rethinks online education strategy

A push to emphasize learning rather than teaching

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration showing groups on both sides of the Charles River pushing two halves of a brick bridge together to span the river

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Architectural plan for Widener Library

Harvard Widener Library Overlooked Designer

Widener Library’s overlooked designer

by John S. Rosenberg