The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-29
HARvARDs NEW CLUBHOUSE.

One of the novelties that delighted
hundreds of old and new Harvard men
and their ladies at this years class day
was the informal inspection of the Har-
ward Union, the handsome and commo-
d1ous clubhouse, which, through Maj.
Henry L. Higginsons generosity, is 10
be the center of general college life in
years to come. To judge from the ex-
preSSionS from those who went through
the great building 1t will prove to he
In fact what the major and all other
good Harvard men hope to see 1t; for It's
interior is even more imposing than the
outside, and those who inspected it
seemed impressed with the perfect fit
ness of each room, both by itself and as
part of the general plan.
The main entrance Is on the north
side, reached from Quincy street. AS
broad hall with a small office on the
right, where the minor business of mem
bers. will be attended to, and stran-
gers room on the left. In front is the
broad entrance to the great living room,
SO called like the great hall of an old
English house. Walking straight in
from the entrance one crosses the middle
OF this room and passes out on the cir
cuIar porch on the Harvard street side.
This was popular place, and in the
comfortable oak chairs many sat for
quiet tete-a-tete while they looked over
into the festivities going on in the Beck
hall yard. But the living room vas the
great feature of the house. as il proba-
bly, always will be. At either end is a
great fireplace, big enough to swallow
half cord of wood at once, with a long
library table extending from each one
lengthwise toward the middle Of the
room. Old-fashioned oak chairs leather
and wicker easy chairs, settees small
tables, some with checker-board tops
and all IN oak Of rich olive shade cor
respond with the oaken wainscoting of
| the walls, and are set finely by the great
rugs of rich deep red and brown which
covers parts Of the hardwood t!oor. over
the eastern fireplace three national en-
1nn
work, and a bust of Washington has
been placed on the manteI Under the
bust is the following motto: Let us
raise a standard to which the wise and
| honest can repair. '-Washington over
| the western fireplace are carved the seal
Of Harvard college, of Cambridge uni
yersity and of John Harvard's college
Emanuel-at Cambridge A bust Of John
Harvard Is on the mantel, and under il
are these words: "A good name Is rather
CHOSEN than great riches and loving fa=
Xor than silver and gold" The floor Of
the room is surrounded by a stone bor-
der.
There will be memorial panels on the
walls OF this room, some of them having
been already set up Over the Washing
ton fireplace. entered from the second
moor, is a gallery, where musicians couId
be placed II desired. The lighting is by
Two great chandeliers and clusters OF
small lights around the walls
The western wing on the ground floor
IS taken up by, three large reading rooms
of chairs and small tables The two end
rooms. will be used also for games, while
the middle one will serve as a periodical
reading room and will probably contain
the trophy cases
A large grillroom. finished in oak, takes
up the whole southern part of the east
wing, and Is intended for visitors and odd
meals, but not for regular boarders. Next
to the grtllrooms Is a pantry. connected
by dumbwaiters with the kitchen be-
meath, and beyond this is a smaller dining
for private dinner
From the strangers room open a room
for two telephones and the coat rooms
also small hall to which there is a sep
arate entrance from the outside intended
for the men accompanied by ladies' A
special staircase ascends from here TO a
small parlor and retiring room for ladies'
on the second floor, which opens also
from the ladies' dining room on that
floor. Around from this room through
the left wing extend the pantry, a com
mittee room furnished with tables ana
oak chairs and an assembly room. At
the other end of the long corridor is tho,
library, consisting Of three large rooms
Stairways at either end of the corridor
lead up to the third floor. which is cut
up into single and double sleeping rooms
ten or twelve in all. A large card room
is over the main entrance on the second
floor.
In the basement, under the great living
room, is a spacious billiard room not vet
furnished. except for the long and com
Portable oaken benches built along either
wall for spectators There is a street en-
trance for this room, under the passage
from the living room to the porch ana
under the porch itself are the offices of
the Harvard Athlet association and the
treasurer of the union. The west wing OF
the basement is to be the quarters of the
Harvard Crimson the daily newspaper. A
narrow corridor continues the main corri-
dor to the end wall, where an independ-
ent door opens to Quincy street. This
small corridor may be shut off from the
other if desired. On one side are the edi-
torial offices and sanctum, with the press
room any typesetting room on the other.
There are lavortorieS and a barber shop;
also rooms for the culinary department..
The Offices of the Advocate and the