Word: lionell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston building trades strike which began yesterday has deprived the contractors for the Counting House and Lionel and Mower Halls of plumbers and lathers. Work on Massachusetts Hall will not be affected...
...sending my two sons to Harvard in the single hope that they may get there something of what he got, but most of all that they may grow to be men like him." That man was Lionel Harvard...
...Lionel Harvard, who was killed in action in France in 1918, was a descendant of the brother of John Harvard, and from the time of his arrival at the University in 1919 from his native England, he was popularly known as "Johnny Harvard". He was prominent in undergraduate activities and was chosen Senior Class Poet. For three years he sang in the quartet of the University Glee Club. He was also in the Signet, the Hasty Pudding, the Dramatic Club, and the D. U. Club...
...type of man that Lionel Harvard was is evidenced by a letter received about four years ago at the office of the Committee on Admission, and since lost, telling why a certain English captain proposed to send his two sons to Harvard. The letter quoted another letter from the Englishman, which ran, in substance, as follows: "You may suppose it strange that I purpose to send my two sons to Harvard, as I have never been to American and I know little about the States...
...bequeathed to the University a fund with the request that it be used for a building in the memory of her father. Thomas G. Mower of the class of 1810. The fund is not fully sufficient for the cost but the balanced as well as the entire cost of Lionel Hall are to be paid for by gifts made for this special purpose...