Records of the Harvard Union, circa 1895-1948.

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Records of the Harvard Union, circa 1895-1948.

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Records include general information and ephemera, newsclippings, constitution and by-laws, addresses, scrapbooks, publications, histories, records of the secretary of Union trustees, correspondence, subject files, financial records, and committee records and reports, including records of the Library Committee. The earliest records, 1895-1899, document the movement to found the Union.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Harvard Union Building (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Harvard University. Harvard Union.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Harvard undergraduate social life was ruled by a "club system" which was accused of elitism and exclusionary practices; the Harvard Union was established as an alternative club open to all Harvard students. It was housed in a building of the same name, designed by McKim, Mead and White; Major Henry Lee Higginson provided the original funding. From the description of Records of the Harvard Union, circa 1895-1948. (Harvard University). WorldCat rec...