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Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:

Construction Management Records, ca. 1953-1986.

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 298.8000
Overview: Harvard University was one of the first large organizations to establish its own internal construction management group, beginning in the 1960s, which centralized all administrative responsibilities involved in the building process. These responsibilities included awarding bids, overseeing daily activities of the contractors and architects, acting as a liaison to offices, organizations, and individual members of the Harvard community and any communities affected by the construction project,...

Records of the Harvard Bicentenary Celebration

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.836.xx
Overview:

The records document some of the activities related to the Harvard Bicentenary Celebration held on September 8, 1836. Materials include extracts listing the votes of the Corporation about the 1836 celebration, a plan for the evening illumination of Holworthy Hall, a volume of autographs signed by Harvard graduates and guests, blank tickets for the “Dinner of the Alumni” held during the celebration and letters from Harvard alumni confirming their attendance at the dinner.

Documentary History of the Library

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUF 523.6.73
Overview: This collection of printed documents, both published and unpublished, reflects the history, growth and management of the Harvard College Library from 1773 to 1879. Documents include Visiting Committee reports, library and sales catalogues, library regulations, circular letters to patrons and alumni, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, fundraising appeals, blank receipts for gifts to the library, and blank forms regarding borrowing privileges, book order requests, and arrival...

Drafts of Faculty votes

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAIII 27.80
Overview: This collection contains drafts of five miscellaneous votes by the Harvard Faculty between 1742 and 1803 related to student behavior, both in specific cases and in the development of College rules. The Harvard Faculty, initially known as the Immediate Government, began holding meetings in 1725 to discuss educational and administrative concerns of the College. The group primarily consisted of the president of Harvard College, the professors, and the tutors. The documents in this collection...

Examinations,1836-2009

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUC 7000.xx
Overview:

This collection chiefly consists of final examinations given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, especially the undergraduate examinations from Harvard College. It also includes examinations from the Harvard Law School, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Graduate School of Business Administration, and the Lawrence Scientific School. Other types of examinations include questions for entrance, mid-year, honors, Ph.D., make-up, reading, divisional and general examinations.

Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard College, Radcliffe College, and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student records on microfilm

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAIII 15.75.14
Overview:

Negative microfilm copies of student record cards for Harvard College, Radcliffe College, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Harvard University Graduate School of Education doctoral student records

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 350.103.15
Scope and Contents:

Academic student records for students who attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (HGSE) doctoral programs and separated from the School between 1952 and 1983.

Harvard University greetings records, 1886-1962

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Sub-Series Identifier: UAI 15.690
Overview:

These records contain ceremonial greetings to and from Harvard University. The senders and recipients are other universities as well as learned and professional societies. The occasions that prompt exchanges of greetings are often significant anniversaries.

Harvard 350th anniversary celebration : video recordings and script

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAY 11
Overview:

Includes two U-matic S videos, one 1” video reel, a program and a full event script with notes on when to cue the video produced by Tommy Walker Productions for the September 6, 1986 event celebrating Harvard's 350th anniversary at Harvard Stadium.

Harvard Commons Records

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.250
Overview: Following the English tradition, students at Harvard College dined in commons, eating at least one daily meal together in a dining hall along with the tutors and graduate students. This practice continued at Harvard into the middle of the 19th century. The Harvard Commons Records document the maintenance and development of commons at Harvard College in the 18th and early 19th centuries and the Steward's role in overseeing those commons. They also document a rebellion by the students in 1807...

Harvard Library reports

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAIII 50.5
Overview:

Reports by the chief librarians of Harvard College and Harvard University.

Mathematical theses, 1782-1839.

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUC 8782.514
Overview:

The mathematical theses consist of equations and drawings which illustrate the equations. At the time of their creation, the purpose of these finely executed documents on large sheets of paper was to demonstrate a student's mastery of one or more mathematical concepts, yet the enduring value of many of the them lies in the fact that they are works of art.

Harvard University News Office photographs: subjects

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 605.270.12
Scope and Contents:

Chiefly black and white 35mm negatives accompanied by a few strips of contact prints in some folders. The primary photographer was likely Rick Stafford.

Official register of Harvard University, 1900-2008

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HU 75.25
Overview:

The Official Register of Harvard University is a set of publications that has been published annually by Harvard since 1900. While specific titles included within the register have varied over time, much of the content has remained consistent, including annual reports of the president and treasurer, course catalogs, announcements of departments and divisions, student handbooks, and directories.

Records of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, 1940-1972

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 713.9025 through UAV 713.9269.5
Overview:

The Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory was established in 1940 to conduct research on speech, hearing, and communications during World War II. It continued to operate after the War and in 1962 it was renamed the Laboratory of Psychophysics. These records document the activities of the laboratory.

Records of Harvard lotteries

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAN 1
Overview: The records of the Harvard lotteries are comprised of materials created in the process of administering the Harvard College lotteries sanctioned by Massachusetts General Court Acts of July 2, 1772, June 14, 1794, and March 14, 1806 to raise money for dormitory-building projects. The collection consists of five series containing lottery tickets, newspaper and broadside lottery announcements, accounting records, and administrative lists used to manage the lottery drawings. Most of the...

Harvard University. Records of the Arnold Arboretum legal case and the Bailey Plan for the reorganization of the botanical departments at Harvard University

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.946.10
Overview: The Arnold Arboretum was established between the trustees under the will of James Arnold and the President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 29, 1872. Subsequent gifts enlarged the endowment of the Arboretum and its living collection of trees and wood plants, as well as its library and herbarium. In 1945, a major reorganization of botany collections and departments (known as the Bailey Plan) at Harvard, including the removal of the Arboretum’s library and herbarium from Jamaica Plain...

Records of the Faculty relating to disorders

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAIII 15.21.6
Overview: Disorderly conduct by students was a problem for Harvard administrators from the College's earliest days. The College Laws, first compiled in 1642 and revised regularly, attempted to define appropriate student conduct by setting limits on student privileges and detailing prohibited behavior (known as "disorders"). Vandalism, truancy, drunkenness, swearing, gambling, and loud noise were common disorders throughout the 17th and 18th centuries at the College, but larger displays of student...

Records pertaining to the Apparatus of the Rumford Professorship and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1037
Overview: The records document the use of the Rumford apparatus, a collection of scientific instruments and working models used for the promotion of the practical sciences by Daniel Treadwell, Joseph Lovering, and Eben Norton Horsford at Harvard in the 1830s and 1850s. The financial ledger, catalogue, and lists of articles in this collection illustrate the wide range of instruments comprising the apparatus, provide a glimpse into the scientific instruction and knowledge given to students at Harvard,...

Records related to Selective Service registration at Harvard University

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.940.xx
Overview: The United States began drafting men for military service with the passage of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act) on September 16, 1940. This collection documents Harvard University’s participation in the registration of men under the Selective Training and Service Act on October 16, 1940 and June 30, 1942. Records include registration day placards, check lists for chief registrars, blank volunteer cards, lists of Harvard University...

Records relating to the Air Raid Precautions Organization at Harvard University

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.941.10
Overview: Civil defense at Harvard University during World War II began even before American entrance into the conflict, when the Harvard Corporation created a Committee on Civilian Defense to survey the defense needs of the University, including the protection of the College's treasures and records in October 1941. One of the first steps initiated by the Committee on Civilian Defense was the establishment of an Air Raid Precautions School at Harvard, to teach faculty, students, and staff the basics...

Records relating to the Fellowship controversy

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.718
Overview: This collection contains six documents related to the Harvard Fellowship controversy from between 1716 and 1723 that expanded from internal disagreements about the role of Tutors in College governance into a political battle between the Corporation, Board of Overseers, and the Massachusetts General Court. The documents in this collection are in College Tutor Nicholas Sever's hand and include manuscript copies of Sever and Tutor William Welsteed's 1721 and 1722 petitions to the Harvard Board...

Records relating to the installation of Nathan Marsh Pusey as the Twenty-Fourth President of Harvard University

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.953.10
Overview: Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) served as the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University from 1953 to 1971. Formally elected by the Harvard Corporation on June 1, 1953, Pusey was invested with the “powers and privileges” of his office at an installation ceremony on October 13, 1953 in the Faculty Room in University Hall. This collection documents the installation of Nathan M. Pusey as Harvard president on October 13, 1953. Records include a reel-to-reel audio recording and a disc recording...

Records relating to the presentation of the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator to Harvard University

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.944.5
Overview:

The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I) was developed by Harvard University Professor Howard D. Aiken (1900-1973) in collaboration with engineers from the International Business Machines Corporation beginning in 1937. This collection contains a typewritten stenographer's transcript and seven phonograph records (12 inch, 78 rpm long-playing (LP) format) documenting the presentation of the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator to Harvard University on August 7, 1944.

Records relating to the University of Oxford Convocation at Harvard University, 19 June 1941

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.941.2
Overview: On June 19, 1941, the University of Oxford held a convocation at Harvard University to award an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Presented to Roosevelt for his support against lawlessness and aggression abroad and for his support in “the fight for Peace, Justice, and Freedom,” the honorary degree was also designed to reinforce the relationship between Great Britain and the United States and to acknowledge American support for Britain in its war against...
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