Tag: Harvard Student Life

• Restoring FDR’s Harvard, One Pixel at a Time

  A number of our readers have been curious as to how we’ve found all the framed art that hangs on our walls. Well, let me tell you –  it’s been…

• 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…

• How Harvard Invented Modern Football

  (FDR was an avid football fan, and FDR Suite-mate Lathrop Brown managed the Varsity Team in 1903, so to celebrate the big Game this Saturday, I thought it fit to…

• 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…

• All Hallows’ Eve

  From our haunted mirror to yours, Happy Halloween! The FDR Suite Restoration Project at Adams House, Harvard College is funded entirely through your contributions to the FDR Suite Foundation Inc,…

• 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…