The Harvard book . UNION is the most inclusive of all Harvard clubs, and its membership isopen to all past and present members of Harvard University. It is the common meetingground for all Harvard men. Its living room (nearly 100 feet long and 40 feet wide) is theaccepted place for mass meetings and for large gatherings of graduates and undergraduates. This building was erected, at a cost of about $200,000, as a memorial to the Harvard menwho died in the war with Spain. Major Henry L. Higginson of Boston headed the list of con-tributors with $150,000, and the rest was subscribed by other gradu
The Harvard book . UNION is the most inclusive of all Harvard clubs, and its membership isopen to all past and present members of Harvard University. It is the common meetingground for all Harvard men. Its living room (nearly 100 feet long and 40 feet wide) is theaccepted place for mass meetings and for large gatherings of graduates and undergraduates. This building was erected, at a cost of about $200,000, as a memorial to the Harvard menwho died in the war with Spain. Major Henry L. Higginson of Boston headed the list of con-tributors with $150,000, and the rest was subscribed by other graduates. The building was dedi-cated October 15, 1901. The Union has all the conveniences of a large and well-appointed club house, including alarge dining room, used daily by members and their guests, and an excellent library of over6,000 volumes. Besides the Trophy Room, the various committee rooms, etc., are the quartersused by three of the College papers,—the Advocate, Crimson and Monthly. THE A. B HARVARD BOOK. \V/ADSWORTH HOUSE, the oldest building nowstanding except Massachusetts Hall, was builtpartly with a grant of =£1,000 made by the GeneralCourt of Massachusetts Bay in 1726, the year after Presi-dent Wadsworth was inaugurated. At first called thePresidents House, it was occupied by successive presidentsuntil 1849. It was the headquarters of Washington andLee for a short time in 1775, and undoubtedly some ofthe first despatches sent by Washington to Congress, toRichard Henry Lee and to General Schuyler, were writtenin Wadsworth. Towards the close of the century thebuilding was enlarged, and after 1849 it was used as adormitory and boarding house for students. It is atpresent used as a dormitory, but one room is given overto the Preacher of the University for the time being. THE A. B HARVARD BOOK A PPLETON CHAPEL, devoted solelyto religious worship, was the gift ofSamuel Appleton of Boston, who left$200,000 to the college with the directionthat one fourth of it should
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