John Harvard's Journal

Highlights from Harvard’s Past

The rise of Cambridge cyclists, a lettuce boycott, and Julia Child’s cookbooks

Harvard's baseball coach Joe Walsh dies suddenly at 58

He coached for the past 17 seasons and won five Ivy League championships.

Football placekicker David Mothander explains how to kick a football

Placekicker David Mothander explains how to split the uprights.

by Craig Lambert

Cherone Duggan and Kathryn Reed are the new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Fellows

Cherone Duggan ’14 and Kathryn Reed ’13 are the magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.

Harvard Summer School proctor looks back on her own student experience

The Undergraduate proctors high-schoolers and looks back on her own high-school days—and her discovery of American liberal-arts education.

by Cherone Duggan

Headlines from Harvard history, September-October 1922-1982

Headlines from Harvard history

Renewing and renovating the Houses for Harvard undergraduates

Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard's Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.

Harvard news: solar cells, edX rolls out, Drew Faust on TV, and more

Harvard's largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the Gilgamesh sculpture, and more

Short profile of David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine

David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.

A Harvard Business School exhibition on early trade with China

An exhibition from Harvard Business School's historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.

Harvard to resume expansion in Allston with stem cell science building, housing

Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.