Tag: Social Life at Harvard

  • Lathrop Brown and FDR: The Harvard Years

    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    (This is the second installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz.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...

    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

    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

    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!

    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)…

  • Piecing Together FDR's Rooms, Literally

    Piecing Together FDR’s Rooms, Literally

    It all started so simply. Last fall while photographing the FDR Suite, I noticed some curious bits of something dangling behind the large radiator in the main study. What could…