Tag: Harvard History

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican

  It seems almost impossible, but here it is, clear as day:  F.D. Roosevelt, a member of the Harvard Republican Club!  What could have happened? Have we moved into the realm…

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  The Ghost of Lathrop Brown?

  As the Cambridge air has turned cool, we’ve begun to notice that strange things are afoot in the Suite. Haunting melodies of ragtime are floating in the air, and occasionally…

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  The World: Its Cities and Peoples

  I’ve commented often in this newsletter about how, occasionally, things just seem to fall into place by themselves, almost as if they were destined to be. Well, it’s happened again,…

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  Hasty Pudding Season

  On Thursday I went to the Hasty Pudding Play with some fellows and again on Friday with the Quincy’s & dined there also. Saturday afternoon after rowing I went into…

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  The World Turned Upside Down

  Tradition holds that as the defeated British soldiers retired off the field at Yorktown, their regimental band struck up an ancient march, The World Turned Upside Down: If buttercups buzz’d…

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  New Views of the Suite, November 2012

  I was at the Suite yesterday, the day after Thanksgiving, beginning what’s going to be a three-month intensive effort to catalog the objects in the collection for inclusion in our…