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• Salmagundi

  The Victorians loved words with strange and exotic origins, and here’s one of my favorites: SALMAGUNDI (slm-gnd n. pl. sal·ma·gun·dis) 1. A salad of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, and onions,…

• How Harvard Invented Modern Football: Part 2

  Part II of the excerpt by Morton (Henry) Prince, Class of 1875: The Harvard season of 1874, which began in the spring, was destined to be historic for American football…

• Why We Fight

  In 1942, in the first full, dark year of the War, famous Hollywood director Frank Capra had a problem. Commissioned by the Government to make a series of films to…

• Bird’s-Eye View of Harvard

  A while back, I acquired this wonderful 1895 bird’s-eye view of Harvard for the Suite, and I thought you might enjoy seeing it. (The original is 11 x 17;  click…

• Lathrop’s Desk

  “The rooms look as if struck by sheet lightning, the sitting-room having the chairs and tables but no curtains or carpets. The bed is in place in my room and…

• Of Arms and a Man, and a Foundation

  For over a year now, we been searching for some sort of logo for the Foundation. We’ve thought of many different options, only to discard them one by one: too…