John Harvard's Journal

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Chinese expert Meg Rithmire is independent thinker at harvard business school

Young Chinese scholar at Harvard Business School

Harvard senior governing board elects Tuchman, Wells

Harvard's senior governing board completes its expansion to 13 members, electing Jessica Tuchman Mathews '67 and Theodore V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. '76

Harvard endowment declines on flat returns

In a year of flat investment returns, the endowment declines as distributions support Harvard University operations

Harvard launches first edX courses

Harvard begins massive online courses through its edX venture with MIT and Berkeley, aiming to improve education on and beyond campus

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.