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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
This month in Harvard history
May 4, 1943 - At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.
May 19, 1953 - Provost Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, presides over his last faculty meeting before retiring from both positions on June 30.
By unanimous acclamation, the faculty adopts a resolution of appreciation, proposed by (and prefaced by a tribute from) Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, with a laudatory second from Physics Professor Edwin C. Kemble.
May 1967 - More than 800 guests fill the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts to celebrate John Finley's 25th anniversary as Master of Eliot House.
From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower
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