EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: It may not be generally known that the song, "Fair Harvard," was composed in one of the rooms in the building now occupied by the Harvard Annex. The author, Samuel Gilman, belonged to the class of 1811, and while in Cambridge at his class reunion in 1836 he wrote "Fair Harvard." He was then the guest of Miss Fay - a niece by marriage - who owned the building on the corner of Mason and Garden streets. While her guest, Mr. Gilman, occupied the room over the parlor on the right looking out upon Shepherd Memorial Church, and it was here that he composed his famous verses. Since the Fay house has become the property of the Annex, Mrs. Caroline Howard Gilman, the widow of the Rev. Samuel Gilman, has presented to this room a picture of her husband, under which is written his own verses. The "Fair Harvard" is one of the favorite recitation rooms in the Annex, and its appropriate name will undoubtedly cling to it.
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