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1928 Following Harvard’s first spring reading period, the College Library reports about 650 more visitors than in the previous year. 1933…
1923 The committee examining Harvard’s admissions process discourages giving preferential treatment to alumni children because…
1913 The Alumni Bulletin welcomes the founding of the Harvard University Press as an “eminently appropriate [way to] powerfully…
1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships for freshmen from southern and western states to ensure greater diversity within…
1912 Larz Anderson ’88 proposes to build a new bridge across the Charles River to replace the inadequate wooden structure connecting…
1922 Harvard Athletic Association members Fred W. Moore ’93 and Frank S. Knapp purchase the capital stock of Leavitt & Peirce Inc., the…
1912 Mrs. George D. Widener reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with…
1922 Heywood Broun ’10, in a column reprinted in the Bulletin, rues the fact that Harvard is no longer the literary center it once was…
1917 — T.W. Lamont ’92, chairman of the Harvard Endowment Committee, announces a novel plan to raise $10 million for the permanent…
1911 Witter Bynner 02 writes the Bulletin to protest Harvards refusal to allow Emmeline Pankhurst to address the Harvard Mens League for Woman…
1911 Holworthy Hall, refurbished after 99 years, boasts hot-water heating and “shower baths” for the first time. 1916 More than…
1916The Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students reports that undergraduates “write bad English because of sheer ignorance…
1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter…
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