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When the famous jaw of "Piltdown man" was proved by chemical tests to be a skillful fake (TIME. Nov. 30. 1953), some authorities were unwilling to condemn the late Charles Dawson, a respected antiquarian of southern England who claimed to have found it in 1911. The faking was too good, the experts said, for a man without technical skill...
Harvard historains have mused about the location of Goffe House for centuries. There seemed little doubt that it existed; various deeds and letters established that much. But as late as 1877, Andrew McFarland Davis, in a paper for the American Antiquarian Society, was still wondering where it was. Somewhere in, or under, or near the College Yard, the remains of a three story stone and timber dwelling lay concealed...
Civil progress, and not antiquarian musings, finally put an cad to conjecture. In 1910 Cambridge began tearing up Massachusetts Avenue to put in a subway line. Under the street across from Wadsworth House, workers came upon a substantial stone and mortar fact--the cellar walls of Cow Yard Row. On the Yard side of the street, looking down from the Square, had stood three houses: Goodman Goffe's, Goodman Peyntree's, said the Revernd Mr. Shepard's. In the middle house, Mr. Peyatree's, Harvard College had its first home...
Other features in the contemporary Bulletin are a comprehensive and well-read letters department, a column of "antiquarian chitchat" by ex-editor McCord entitled "The College Pump," a university section in which current releases from the Harvard News Office are re-written in a clear, light style and with background information added, an Undergraduate column written by the Bulletin's undergraduate editor about life at the College, and--of primary interest to many alumni--a report on the past fortnight's athletic happenings...
Editor of his class college newspaper, Hall was associated with the University Press from 1945 to 1947. He is now vice-president of the New England Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association...