The University has recently received from Mr. T. S. Watson '99, as a gift from the estate of his father, the late Robert Clifford Watson '69, the bow of the six-oared shell "Harvard," the first shell of its kind to be built in America. The "Harvard" was used by the University crews of 1858, 1859 and 1860, in the first of which President Eliot '53, then a tutor in Harvard College, rowed fourth oar, and Professor A. Agassiz '55, bow.

The bow of the "Harvard" has been mounted on a panel and will shortly be hung on a panel and will shortly be hung on the north wall of the Union reading-room.