Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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 look at some of the Harvard photos and ephemera he’d inherited from his grandfather, Chester Robinson, ‘04, a friend and a classmate of FDR’s. I [...]
Interior Design, and Redesign, Harvard 1900
Tags: Chester Robinson '04, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvard Student Rooms
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
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 close of the twentieth century, as complete a record as possible of the present daily life of the University….
Let each one during the month of March [...]
The Chest of 1900
Tags: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvard Archives, Harvard Student Life, Harvard Student Rooms, Victorian scrapbooks, William Lane
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