A YALE MAN BECOMES HARVARD'S GREATEST BENEFACTOR Edward Harkness, Yale '97, had offered to endow an "honor college" in N e w Haven. When Yale dithered, he turned to Harvard. President Lowell not only accepted his offer but persuaded him to give $13 million for
a complex of residential Houses—a dream that Lowell had almost given up. When construction began in 1929, Harkness, Lowell, and Phantom, the president's dog, were the most ardent sidewalk superintendents. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1986
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