Articles by Department: Yesterday's News

1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the…

1924 In a Crimson poll on Prohibition, the Harvard community votes nearly two to one to keep the Volstead Act in force, and 1488 to 940 in…

1923 Responding to a New York Times assertion that "information from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act…

1923 The College admits 940 applicants, its largest class ever. For the first time, those in the top seventh of their preparatory schools have…

1923 Samuel M. Scott, A.B. 1886, questions “the rapid increase in membership” at the College and its impact on quality and efficiency. Scott…

1928 The first reading period at Harvard College has proven successful in bolstering student achievement. The Bulletin cites an increase in…

1928 Massachusetts reports an over-supply of trained teachers. Referring to this "interesting condition of affairs," the editors note…

1922 Sports devotee R.S. Hale, A.B. 1891, suggests to the Bulletin that there be “two Harvard football teams,” instead of one, noting that when…

1922 The Harvard community is delighted that Leavitt and Peirce, long the unofficial "headquarters for Harvard men," has a new…

1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to…

1922 An explosion of liquid oxygen in Jefferson Labs takes the lives of an engineering graduate student and a carpenter working in the building…

1922 Noting a trend among American universities toward improving the quality of student dormitories, the editors remark, "The average…

1926 After closing the Memorial Hall commons because of students’ "unsociable fashion of ‘eating round’ at cafeterias and lunch…

1936 Harvard adopts a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their…