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 2013 honorary degrees

The University confers honorary degrees on six men and three women.

A week in review: the 362nd Commencement

Moments of reflection in a year when Harvard swung between low points and high.

Women’s water polo player Aisha Price is one of Harvard’s leading scorers

Women’s water polo player Aisha Price is one of Harvard’s leading scorers.

Harvard's Nico Weiler is a pole vault champion

Nico Weiler clears inhuman heights, and not by human instinct.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard news: Oprah Winfrey, Cass R. Sunstein, College costs, and more

Harvard news: Oprah at Commencement, Cass R. Sunstein, College admissions and costs, union contract, quiz-show titles overturned, sustainable-investing vice president, and more

An Irish Harvard College student's local family

The Undergraduate, from Ireland, finds friendship in a local host family.

by Cherone Duggan

Harvard fundraising needs and competition

The University approaches a public fundraising drive

Martin Puchner, author and professor of drama and of English

The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.

Headlines from Harvard history, May-June 1913-1998

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Harvard's edX venture: growth and challenges

A first-year report on HarvardX and edX, the online-education partnership with MIT