Articles by Department: Yesterday's News

1911 Holworthy Hall, refurbished after 99 years, boasts hot-water heating and “shower baths” for the first time. 1916 More than…

1916The Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students reports that undergraduates “write bad English because of sheer ignorance…

 1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter…

1931 The Harvard Placement Service appeals for help as it tries to find work for graduating seniors and older alumni who have lost their jobs…

1911 Because more seniors wish to room in the Yard, the Corporation is likely to furnish the south entry of Thayer Hall with steam heat and…

1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Illustration by Mark Steele 1930…

1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard…

1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting…

1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given…

1920 The Corporation and Overseers have voted to admit female students to the new Graduate School of Education, which will open its doors in…

1915 Undergraduate protests against beer at class banquets prompt Bulletin editors to note that "the increase of abstinence and temperance…

1914 Harvard spoils the dedication of the Yale Bowl by defeating the Elis, 36-0. The popular jest is that Yale supplied the bowl and Harvard…

1914 When an alumnus threatens to cut a $10-million bequest to Harvard out of his will unless outspokenly pro-German professor Hugo…

1919 Indignant alumni write the Bulletin protesting the unsportsmanlike conduct of Harvard spectators at the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game…

1924 The Bulletin’s editors report themselves glad "to record that John Harvard has at last come into his own"—the University…