Current Issue:
October 18, 2001
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
This month in Harvard history
Oct. 6, 1870 - The Rev. Phillips Brooks lays the cornerstone of Memorial Hall.
October 1874 - The Harvard Athletic Association forms, with Benjamin R. Curtis, Class of 1875, as president. For almost 20 years, this undergraduate group oversees competitions of running, leaping, boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics.
Oct. 15, 1901 - The Harvard Union (now part of Barker Center for the Humanities) is dedicated.
Oct. 6-7, 1909 - In a grand, two-day ceremony attended by 13,000, President A. Lawrence Lowell is formally installed as Harvard's 22nd President.
Oct. 10, 1912 - Librarians begin moving books out of Gore Hall, home of the College Library, which is to be demolished in 1913 to make way for Widener Library.
- From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower
Copyright 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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