Tag: Social Life at Harvard

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  A Missing Place…Revisited

  Wow! Of all the topics we’ve covered recently, my previous post certainly caught everyone’s attention, and rightly so. Thanks to so many of you who commented below or wrote me…

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  A Missing Place

  One of the most delightful aspects of my “job” with the FDR Foundation has been the interaction I’ve had with our students over the last four years. They are an incredible…

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  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…

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  EBay, FDR and the Fall River Line

  I have another circular tale for your consideration: During our recent open house over the Harvard-Yale weekend, many of you wanted to know how we found period items for the…

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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,…

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  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…