John Harvard's Journal

A Near-Perfect Football Season Ends in Disappointment

A loss to Villanova derails Harvard in the playoffs. 

by Dick Friedman

Final-club fallout and preventing preprofessionalism

Final-club regulations and preventing preprofessionalism

by John S. Rosenberg

Samuel Huntington remembered

A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist

by John S. Rosenberg

Headlines from Harvard’s history

“Reading period” debuts, the Maharishi visits, a blizzard shuts down the University, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Teaching rap in China, and contemplating one's blackness

Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness

by Tawanda Mulalu

University marshal steps down, MacArthur fellows, more

The University Marshal retires, MacArthur fellows, diversifying freshman pre-orientation, and more

Honoring Harvard Magazine contributors

Recognizing outstanding authors and artists for serving our readers

Harvard football 2017 season wrap-up

A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard swimmer Dean Farris builds on his breakout rookie season

No longer a “skinny kid,” swimmer Dean Farris ’20 builds on his breakout rookie season.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Kennedy School campus makeover

A campus remade in the course of the capital campaign

Winthrop House renovated and expanded

Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.