Harvard Hall, Harvard U
- Address: 12 Harvard Yard
- Vicinity: Massachusetts Ave
- Neighborhood of Mid-Cambridge, MA in Cambridge, MA
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1766/06/00 | Sir Francis Bernard | Architect | Designed by Governor Francis Bernard, the new Harvard Hall opens. The building includes the dining commons, the library, a laboratory and the College's first rooms designed for lectures. The edifice is the first at Harvard to be built without chambers and | |||
| 1769/06/00 | Sir Francis Bernard | Governor | Despite protest from the members, Gov Bernard installs the General Court in the "Philosophy chamber" of Harvard Hall and assigns the House to Holden Chapel. | |||
| 1783/00/00 | Joseph Willard (Harvard president) | Work | First classes at the Harvard College Medical School are held in Harvard Hall. Students do not pay tuition but do buy tickets to the professors' lectures. They do not have academic requirements and there are no written exams. | History of Harvard Medical School | ||
| 1815/00/00 | The College's dining commons moves to University Hall. | |||||
| 1874/07/00 | The Harvard's Commencement Dinners and Class Day dances are held at Harvard Hall until the transept are dedicated for use at the partially built Memorial Hall. |
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