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In this issue's John Harvard's Journal:
Jiang in Cambridge - Gore on the Globe - International Initiatives - Crackdown on Use, Abuse of Alcohol - Home Stretch - Harvard Portrait: The Mendelssohn Quartet - Georgia Collects Its History - Harvard Eggs? Protecting the Name - The Incredible Shrinking Reading Period - Tenure Trends for Female Faculty - Brevia - The Undergraduate: Different Voices - 1998 Marshalls - Sports
Jubilation: Defensive end Brian Daigle '00, left, and sidelined captain Brendan Bibro '98 at the end of the day in New Haven.Photograph by Jon Chase
Red and Crimson

The number of people who attended Jiang Zemin's November 1 address in Sanders Theatre or demonstrated outside just about equaled average attendance at Harvard Stadium during home games this fall. Both sets of crowds saw history in the making. Responding to questions following his formal address, Jiang went so far as to hint that the Communist Party might have erred in crushing the democracy protests at Tiananmen Square (see Jiang in Cambridge). And the football team, on its long march through the Ivy League, set a squadful of records, including its first undefeated Ivy title (see Sports). Almost overshadowed by the season's events was the appearance on campus of Vice President Al Gore '69, LL.D. '94, who spoke at the Kennedy School on global environmental issues October 31 (see Gore on the Globe) and then stayed on for part of Freshman Parents Weekend (daughter Sarah is a member of the class of 2001), when the appearance of the Chinese president's retinue and the international press corps relegated him to familiar second-class celebrity status.