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One Year in Harvard History
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Throughout the year of Harvard’s 375th anniversary, we will be bringing you tidbits from the University’s history, one year at a time. Check back for updates, or sign up to receive these historical tidbits in your inbox.
1899
First pension plan for Faculty members. Harvard wins third intercollegiate cricket cup.
1898
Spanish-American War: a hundred students enlist, eleven are killed. Radcliffe gym built.
1897
Students open T Wharf reading room for sailors and fishermen.
1896
Brown bests Harvard 6-0 in America’s first intercollegiate Hockey game.
1895
Fogg museum completed (later Hunt Hall)… W.E.B. DuBois ’90 is the first black to receive Harvard’s Ph.D.
1894
Radcliffe College incorporated.
1893
All law students required to be college graduates.
1892
Josiah Royce, foremost “idealist” philosopher, named professor of philosophy. Medical School lengthens course to four years. Football team originates “flying wedge,” and Harvard Graduates’ Magazine founded.
1891
Instruction begins in American archaeology, ethnology, anthropology.
1890
Major Henry Lee Higginson, A.B. 1855, donates Soldiers Field (31 acres) in memory of six friends who fell in the Civil War. LeBaron R. Briggs, A.B. 1875, professor of English, becomes dean of the College.