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Over the years, the Freshman Union has been the scene of goldfish swallowings, food fights and ghosts. But, the Union's original benefactor, Major Henry Lee Higginson (class of 1855), never intended it to host any of these somewhat lowly activities. Nor, as a matter of fact, did he intend the Union to be a dining area or for it to be exclusively for freshmen...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...great entrepreneur became the great benefactor. With the establishment of the Wang Institute and gifts to Harvard, Chinatown and the Boston community at large, he says he is giving back to the communities and institutions that have given so much to him. The circle is now complete...

Author: By Robert Q. Mcmanus, | Title: Immigrant Billionaire | 10/4/1986 | See Source »

Such a limited role was inconsistent with the vision of its benefactor Lucius N. Littauer, Class of 1878, when, in 1936, he gave the University $2 million to begin an independent school of government, called the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Such a limited role was inconsistent with the vision of its benefactor Lucius N. Littauer, Class of 1878, when, in 1936, he gave the University $2 million to begin an independent school of government, called the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

Such a limited role was inconsistent with the vision of its benefactor Lucius N. Littauer, Class of 1878, when, in 1936, he gave the University $2 million to begin an independent school of government, called the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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