Tag: Social Life at Harvard

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  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…

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  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…

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  FDR’s Secret Code

  How’s this for an elliptical tale: I was sitting last evening in FDR Suite, attending a small get-together hosted by Claire Mays, ’81, who’s our first guest since the Suite…

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  All the King’s Horses…

  Who said you couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Several days’ worth  of hard work later, the Suite has emerged with its new coat of paper, remarkably transformed, looking for…

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  Boodle & Co.

  Dearest Mama, I have jumped into a den of wild animals on my return, beginning with a dinner at the Club last Saturday, two private performances of the Pudding show…

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  Time Machine

  One of the things that amazes me most about this project is that every now and then, a piece of the puzzle drops mysteriously from the sky, as if by…