Records of the Bustard Society, c. 1929.

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Records of the Bustard Society, c. 1929.

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Records include a loose-leaf notebook with list of charter members, constitution, and the Bow Street [Society] anthology of song and verse; limericks, notes on members, and photographs (classified separately under the Harvard University Archives call number: HUPSF Bustard Society). The photographs include eight snapshots of Lloyd Cabot Briggs (AB 1931), four unidentified outside views, and one view from the home of Briggs in Boston, c. 1926. One photograph is restricted until 2012.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Bow Street Society (Harvard University)

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Bustard Society (Harvard University)

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The Bustard Society was a secret male-only society existing at Harvard in the late 1920s-early 1930s. When the society was founded, it incorporated members of the Bow Street Society, another secret society at Harvard. Both societies wrote songs and verses of a slightly risque nature. From the description of Records of the Bustard Society, c. 1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 274045238 ...

Briggs, Lloyd Cabot, 1909-

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Lloyd Cabot Briggs was an anthropologist who specialized in the prehistory of northwest Africa, but was also interested in the ethnology of Saharan peoples, especially the Tuareg. LLoyd Cabot Briggs was the son of Lloyd Vernon Briggs and Mary Tilotson Cabot Briggs. His father was a prominent Boston psychiatrist. A graduate of Harvard (B.A. 1931, M.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1952), Briggs was a Research Fellow in North African Anthropology at the Peabody Museum from 1952 until his death in 1975....