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Holden Chapel, on the other hand, could be restored inexpensively and without inconvenience, to a condition in which it could serve as a museum to house the immense store of Harvardiana which lies hidden somewhere in the vaults of Widener. It could become the headquarters for the direction of the horde of visitors in the summer who at present wander about aimlessly from the new chapel to the glass flowers; also for the distribution of literature dealing with the history, traditions, and existing features of the College and the University...
...World War on the side of the Central Powers. E. K. Rand '94. Pope Professor of Latin, stated last night that the form "Harvardianus-a-um" was the approved Latin equivalent of the adjective "Harvard." But the plaque uses the third declension adjective in the inscription, thus: "Universitas Harvardiensis." "Harvardiana" is used on the Harvard seal and as the title of the famous Crimson football song...
...York City, October 5--Rudolph "Rudy" Vallee, Yale '26 and Maine varsity letter man, denied today having had any correspondence with Harvard officials relative to the recording and popularizing of "Harvardiana" and "Our Director", two Harvard songs to which the famous New York crooner had supposedly been denied the rights, and declared that in making phonograph records of the songs he believed that he "was giving Harvard a good plug just as he had done for Maine with the 'Stein Song...
...Vallee also went on record as saying that he had seriously considered changing the words of "Harvardiana" and make it a "good drinking song" and that in this respect it "had possibilities", but that he had changed his mind and decided against it in order to spare the feelings of the Harvard Alumni. He stated that, he had unqualified permission from the composer, Raymond Williams, to do this if he wanted...
...Colony and signed by Governor Thomas Dudley on May 30, 1650. The only remaining volume from the library of John Harvard, together with three Bibles of Henry Dunster's, first President of the College, one of which contains the records of the Dunster family, completes this interesting collection of Harvardiana...