Word: apthorpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After it became known yesterday that the La Follette--Wheeler Club had been evicted from Apthorp House, the Liberal Club extended an invitation to the organization to share its quarters on Winthrop Street. The letter follows: "Mr. L. R. Brown, President, Harvard La Follette-Wheeler Club, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass...
...sorry to note that the La Follette-Wheeler Club has been denied the privilege of maintaining its headquarters in Apthorp House. It seems to us unfortunate that any political club, whatever its creed, should be deprived of facilities for carrying on its campaign work...
...Follette-Wheeler Club of Harvard may soon find itself without a home as a result of internal dissentions among the residents of Apthorp House, the college dormitory which is now serving as the headquarters for the University's progressives...
...past week the La Follette men have been meeting at frequent intervals in No. 8 Apthorp, the room of P. T. L. Putnam '25, an active member of the club. But yesterday the club received two peremptory orders to leave the building. One was in the form of a message from Matthew Luce '91, regent of the University, requesting the club to vacate at once, on the grounds that no club could hold forth in a college building. The other came as a petition signed by nine of the 16 residents of the dormitory, expressing in no uncertain terms their...
...Apthorp house was built in 1760 by a rich Tory family. It was confiscated by the patriot party during the revolution. General Putnam made it his residence for a short time, then three companies of troops were quartered there, and finally General Burgoyne in 1777 was kept a prisoner in it. After the revolution it changed hands three times, each owner becoming financially ruined. Thus Apthorp House has carried down with it during the years, tradition of bad luck. This was amply illustrated last year when members of Apthorp House lost a monkey. It is an open question now whether...