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...Higginson??s grand gesture to Harvard was his 1899 gift of $150,000 for the creation of the Harvard Union, to be built on the site where the Barker Center stands today. The Union was constructed in 1902, and Higginson??s promise of “a house open to all Harvard men without restriction and in which they all stand equal” was for a time fulfilled. The New York Times concluded in 1913 that “the consensus of opinion seems to be that the Union is doing a great and much...
...well beyond time for the Harvard community to reignite Higginson??s vision. An internal Harvard memo obtained in 2005 by the Boston Globe demonstrated that Harvard students are less happy with their experience than their peers at an elite group of 31 colleges known as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, with frustration at a lack of an adequate social life and campus community playing a significant role in that dissatisfaction...
...center of undergraduate life, with “ample space for reading, study, games, and conversation,” a library, offices for all student activities, publications and athletics, as well as Harvard’s famous “Great Hall.” Higginson??s singular vision was the Harvard Union, now known as the Barker Center for the Humanities...
...Higginson??s extremely generous gift served students well, that is until the University took it over—twice—for purposes other than reading, study, games or conversation. First it was the freshman dining hall in 1930 (Higginson “was a freshman in spirit,” administrators explained), and then it was gutted in the 1990s to create the Barker Center, the great house of the humanities...
...stone. Hopefully, instead of building a facility in the upper floors of Hilles—as far from “center” as “student center” gets—Gross will put away the money for when he can build Higginson??s “great house” in a location that makes sense. If we’re really lucky, it might even be close enough to John Harvard that we won’t have to take a bus to get there...
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