The Baker Library of the Business School has recently been presented with a collection of the utensils used for cooking and manufacture in early American homes. The same collection also includes material salvaged from the remains of the second College building. Both groups were given to the library by the descendants of William Manning, the contractor for this building, which was erected in 1677, and burned down in 1764.

The relics were excavated in back of the present Harvard Hall. Among them are bricks of odd shapes, one of them an oval ornament for a window, a run flint, the bone handle of a lady's parasol, a broken barometer, and fragments of the long clay pipes that were in vogue in the heyday of the old building.

The main collection, of household articles, furnishes a panorama of American inventive improvement. There are, for example, candle moulds and Betty lamps, planes and locks, one of them supposed to have come from the old Pennsylvania state building at Harrisburg. There are augurs which had to be removed from the hole at every turn to get rid of the shaving. Most interesting of all, perhaps, is a funnel-like device with a plunger, called a sausage gun, by means of which our early hot dogs were stuffed.