Planning for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College began in 1930 with the appointment of a Tercentenary Committee jointly by the Harvard Corporation (President and Fellows of Harvard College) and by the Board of Overseers. The Alumni Association was represented on this committee beginning in 1931, along with the Tercentenary Historian (Samuel Eliot Morison) and the Director of the University Library. In 1934, Jerome D. Greene was appointed Director of the Tercentenary Celebration.
The Tercentenary Celebration Office planned, organized, and managed the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College/Harvard University.
From the guide to the Records of the Tercentenary Celebration Office, 1934-1937., (Harvard University Archives)
