A very rare folding pocket schedule for both Harvard and
Yale’s 1894 football seasons. This of course is the year of the ‘Bloodbath at
Hampden Park’, the last game for both Harvard and Yale for the year.
This schedule was distributed with the compliments of the
management of Trinity Hall, an independently owned dormitory on Mount Auburn
street in Cambridge, just a very short stroll from Harvard Yard.
When you read through the amenities offered by Trinity Hall,
this was part of a newer trend beginning in the mid 1890s where decentralization
of the student body at Harvard was becoming the new norm and rooms in privately
owned dormitories (built as investment properties) with such amenities were now
preferred. These “Gold Coast” dorms were constructed starting 1893.
Just a few years before
this, it was considered a great privilege and socially distinctive to room in
the dormitories of the old quadrangle.
Trinity Hall, a wood frame building that had fallen into disrepair
was demolished around 2008 to allow for the restoration of the “Conductor’s
Building’ that laid adjacent to it. The
Conductor’s Building was the last surviving structure associated with the Boston
Elevated Railway. For those familiar with Harvard Square, the Conductor's Building lies diagonally across the street from the Charles Hotel.
A really neat little piece from one of our favorite years to
collect.
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