As Jerome D. Greene '96, Tercentenary chief, rushed to push his preparations, the University last keekend completed plans for an exdhibition of American Furniture and decorative arts, covering the period of the first 200 years of Harvard's history, 1636 to 1836.
Over 50 leading Harvard graduates launched the plan at a dinner held last Monday at the Harvard Club of Boston.
The exhibition to run from July 25 to September 25, has already been dignified by the news office as "so far as is known, the first attempt made by graduates of any college to have an exhibit which will show the development of the arts of America contemporaneous with the growth of the University itself."
The committee includes Jerome D. Greene '96. Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, and Chaides Francis Adams '88, Over seer of the University.
