Scrapbooks of undergraduate life, 1908-1912.

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Scrapbooks of undergraduate life, 1908-1912.

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These scrapbooks document Gilkey's undergraduate academic and social life. Contents are programs and memorabilia relating primarily to Harvard musical and theatrical activities, especially the Banjo Club and the Harvard chapter of Delta Upsilon. Also contains correspondence and newsclippings relating to Gilkey's Garrison Prize-winning poem "Boston as seen from the Harvard Bridge."

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard Banjo Club

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The Harvard Banjo Club was founded in 1886 as an undergraduate student organization. Until 1918, the Banjo Club, along with the Glee Club and the Mandolin Club, were under one management and were known as the Harvard Musical Clubs. As a result of the 1918 agreement, each club became its own separate identity; the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs were incorporated into the Instrumental Clubs....

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...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1912

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Gilkey, James Gordon, 1889-

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James Gordon Gilkey (1889-1964) earned his Harvard AB 1912, Harvard MA 1913, and went on to be a minister, author, and Professor of Biblical Literature at Amherst College. From the description of Scrapbooks of undergraduate life, 1908-1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066171 ...