In 1971, Harvard Students Seized a Building for International Women's Day

Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.

March 3, 1913: Unique Picture Exhibited in Fogg

A rare and valuable picture of Geoffrey Chaucer, the English poet, which was bequeathed to the Harvard College Library by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, has recently been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. The portrait was at Llanshaw Court, in Gloucester-shire, for more than three centuries. It bears a close resemblance to the only known authentic portrait of Chaucer, the miniature in Occleve's "De regimine principum," written in 1411-12, and also to a later full-length portrait in another British Museum manuscript. It has been known in recent years as the Seddon portrait. Mr. James Loeb presented it to Professor Norton, who bequeathed it to the Library with the request that it be inscribed as a memorial of two lovers of Chaucer,—Francis James Child and James Russell Lowell.

March 4, 1931: Crane Gave Bells for Lowell Tower

Charles Richard Crane, Hon. '22, head of the Crane Manufacturing Company of Chicago, yesterday was revealed as the hitherto anonymous donor of the Lowell House bells, thus disposing of the rumor that they were the gift of President Lowell.

Mr. Crane, although never a student at Harvard, was awarded an honorary degree of LL.D. by the University in 1922 as having "sustained innumerable projects artistic, scientific and philanthropic," in the words of the official citation accompanying the degree.

March 8, 1958: Groundbreaking Sparks 'Program'

The call of the golden spade yesterday summoned alumni from Boston and New York to begin the second big push of the Program for Harvard College. About 500 area chairmen and captains returned to Cambridge to speak, to watch, and to listen, as the drive for the "thinner cats" began.

In addition to breaking ground for Quincy House, yesterday's festivities put into motion the Boston and New York solicitation campaign which will begin in earnest after Harvard's Day on March 28.

With most of the "fat cats" solicitation out of the way, the Program, which as of yesterday had garnered $34,250,000, turned to the prospects expected to contribute less than $100,000.

March 3, 1962: Congressman Claims MTA Should Sell to University

WASHINGTON, March 2—The Congressman whose district includes Harvard said today that the Bennett St. Yards of the Metropolitan Transit Authority should go to the University for the construction of a tenth house.

Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill, a Democrat, whom the eleventh district has reelected four times, told the CRIMSON that selling the land to anyone besides Harvard would "spoil the continuity of the University area."

However, O'Neill added, University officials should meet on "friendly terms" with the city to "make a respectable offer of tax revenues which the property would yield Cambridge in the future."

"Harvard wants the land so badly," he noted, "that it will make a deal equitable to all."

March 8, 1971: Women's Group Seizes Harvard Building, Demand Low-Income Housing And Permanent Women's Center

About 150 women ended a march celebrating International Women's Day by seizing a Harvard building Saturday afternoon.

The Architectural Technology Workshop, located at 888 Memorial Drive near Peabody Terrace, houses design workshops and two classes per week in the Graduate School of Design. The building is part of the Treelands site and is slated for demolition in the plan to construct new graduate school housing.

The group of organizers included women from organizations including Bread and Roses, the Old Mole Women's Caucus, and Gay Women's Liberation.

—Compiled by Abigail K. Fiedler and Julie M. Zauzmer