Tag: Social Life at Harvard

• Interior Design, and Redesign, Harvard 1900

  Shortly after last year’s FDR dinner, I received an email from a certain Mr. Dave Robinson in Maine, inquiring as to whether or not we’d be interested in taking a…

• Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years

  (This is the second installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop Brown Interviews:…

• 110 Years Later: Harvard Changed? Yes, and No…

  This week, one of our student researchers, Nina Ranalli of Eliot House, has the guest columnist slot. Having myself spent a large part of the last two years sifting through…

• Additional Views of the Union

  Many of you asked to see a bit more of the Union as FDR knew it, so here are some additional shots I was able to dig up in the…

• The Chest of 1900

  February 22, 1900 At the last meeting of the University Council it was suggested that an attempt be made to bring together for the benefit of our successors at the…

• A Project in Search of a Piano – And a Donor – Plus, A Discovery!

  “The study furniture was two desks and chairs, a large day bed, a piano and two casual chairs. FDR sang 1st bass on the Freshman Glee Club (I, 2nd bass)…