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...Massachusetts Avenue opposite Dunster Street stands a buff colored gambrel roofed structure known as Wadsworth House. A modest and unobtrusive exterior--obscures the fact that it was once the social and cultural center of Cambridge...
...Wadsworth is also one of the University's oldest buildings. A manuscript of President Wadsworth reads: "The President's house to dwell in was raised May 24, 1726. No life was lost, no person hurt in raising it...In ye Evening, those who raised ye House had Supper in Ye Hall; after which we sang ye first stave or staff in ye 127 Psalm...
Thereupon President Wadsworth brought his household goods from the several houses and barns in which they were disposed and set up residence. He was followed by a succession of Harvard presidents until 1861, when the Quincy Street residence was completed...
When President Everett moved to the Quincy Street residence Wadsworth House became a student's boarding house. For a time Henry Adams lived in it. It also has housed the treasurer's office and the University printing press. Now, like other buildings which have outlived their original functions, it contains various minor College offices...
...this fails, the Administration has its Big Stick left: a labor draft such as proposed by the Austin-Wadsworth National Service...