Scrapbook of Roger Griswold

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Scrapbook of Roger Griswold

1910-1917

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Scrapbook compiled by Roger Griswold during his years as an undergraduate student at Harvard and in the years immediately following graduation. The scrapbook contains ephemera such as tickets, dance cards, menus and invitations from student organizations to which he belonged (including the Institute of 1770), college events such as Class Day, and theater events he attended. Griswold's academic career is reflected in his certificate of admission, school reports, disciplinary letters, and exam papers. Photographs documenting college life include snapshots of Griswold's friends and interiors of dormitory rooms. The scrapbook also documents Griswold's travels after graduation to South America, his boating trips locally and abroad, and his military career during World War I. Griswold included money from Uruguay and Argentina, and dance invitations and military programs. The scrapbook includes travel snapshots from cruises and trips in New England, Nova Scotia, and South America, and postcards from Maine, Brazil, and Argentina. Detailed hand drawn plans for a yacht (possibly of his schooner Lloyd W. Berry) were found loose at the back of the volume.

90 pages ; 32 cm.

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Institute of 1770 (Harvard University)

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A public speaking club founded on September 6, 1770 and known simply as the Speaking Club. Joined with Mercurian Club in 1773. The name changed to the Patriotic Association in 1801. In 1825, after uniting with the Hermetic Society and another society, it took the name Institute of 1770. In 1848, the I.O.H. merged with the Institute. The final merger was with the Hasty Pudding Club in 1924....

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...

Griswold, Roger, 1892-1973.

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Roger Griswold was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 9, 1892. He graduated from Milton Academy in the spring of 1910 and received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1914. Griswold sailed to Buenos Aires soon after graduation to work for the River Plate Trading Company until May 1915. He joined the American Ambulance in Paris later that year, and became a member of the Section Two, American Field Service in 1916. Griswold became an officer in the United States Army in 1917, traini...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...