Cantabrigian Lore
1638 — Harvard University, in the town of Cambridge, established by Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settled in New England. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) 
1720 — A view of Harvard Hall, Stoughton Hall, and Massachusetts Hall at Harvard College, in Cambridge, Mass. 
1775 — Illustration showing General Israel Putnam (1718 – 1790) leaving his plow in the field to ride to Cambridge in defense of his country. He served with distinction at Bunker Hill. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images) 
July 3, 1775 — Washington taking command of the American Army at Cambridge, Mass. Artist Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives, Currier and Ives. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images) 
July 3, 1775 — Having been appointed Commander In Chief by the Continental Congress, George Washington (1732 – 1799) takes formal command of the Army during the American Revolution, at Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images) 
1795 — A view from the northwest of (l-r) Hollis, Harvard, and Massachusetts Halls at Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., in 1795. The College was founded in 1636 and gradually grew up around Harvard Yard, still the heart of the campus. 
Circa 18th century — Longfellow House, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Plate taken from Famous Colonial Houses, by Paul M Hollister, published by David McKay (Philadelphia, 1921). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) 
1822 — An engraving of a bucolic-looking Harvard Square shows its appearance in 1822. 
1828 — Vintage illustration of Harvard University, from a series of prints of American historical colleges; lithograph, printed in 1920. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) 
Mid 19th century — Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by /Corbis via Getty Images) 
Mid 19th century — A large observatory dominates a low hill in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images) 
Mid 19th century — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s residential house, the Craigie House in Cambridge, Mass. Steel engraving by L V Hunt. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) 
Mid 19th century — A hand-colored engraving of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
February 1854 — Dozens of workers in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, cut ice from Spy Pond. Ice was a major commodity in New England in the mid 19th century. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images) 
Mid 19th century — A view of Harvard College and Yard in Cambridge, Mass. The College was founded in 1636 and gradually grew up around Harvard Yard, still the heart of the campus. 
Mid 19th century — The Craigie House, Cambridge, Mass., residence of the late H.W. Longfellow. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 
19th century — An engraving depicts the Harvard University campus, Cambridge Mass. (Engraving by Kean Collection/Getty Images) 
September 1851 — A cricket match at Cambridge Crossing, between the New England and St George cricket clubs. Illustration originally published in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Boston. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images) 
1853 — Illustrated view of the Washington Elm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
Approx. 1859 – 1861 — Professor Agassiz at home, Cambridge, Mass., by Deloss Barnum (American, 1825 – 1873), Albumen silver print. (Photo by Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 
Circa 1870s — Gore Hall at Harvard College, Cambridge Massachusetts. From American Pictures Drawn With Pen And Pencil, by Rev Samuel Manning circa 1880. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) 
1870s — Washington Elm, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Engraving. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 
1870s — Washington’s tree Cambridge Mass; American; about 1870 – 1880; Albumen silver print. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 
1874 — ‘Forest Hills, Longfellow’s Residence, Centre St Roxbury, Brookline, Chestnut Hill Reservoir and Drive’, Massachusetts, USA. American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived at 105 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house was the former headquarters of General George Washington. From “Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes…with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American . Artists” Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]. Artist John J. Harley. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images) 
1874 — The Washington Elm on Cambridge Common, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was supposedly under this tree that George Washington first took command of the American Army on 3 July 1775. The tree lived for approximately 210 years and died in 1923. From “Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes…with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American . Artists” Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]. Artist John J. Harley. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images) 
Circa 1900 — The Washington Elm was a tree on Cambridge Common that lived approximately 210 years and died in 1923. Supposedly, it was under this tree that George Washington first took command of the American Army on 3 July 1775. From Scenic Marvels of the New World edited by Prof. Geo.R. Cromwell. [C.N.Greig & Co.]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) 
Circa 1900 — Washington elm tree. Photograph taken by John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931). (Photo by Apic/Getty Images) 
Circa 1900 — The home of the poet Longfellow, Cambridge. The house, built in 1759 for John Vassall, was the home of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) for almost 50 years, and previously the headquarters of General George Washington (1775-1776). From Scenic Marvels of the New World edited by Prof. Geo.R. Cromwell. [C.N.Greig & Co.]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) 
Circa 1900s — West Boston Bridge, bridging the Charles River, connecting Boston and Cambridge. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) 
Circa 1904 — Helen Keller (1880-1968) in cap and gown for her graduation from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) 
January 1, 1904 — A portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, taken in Cambridge, Massachusetts while he was a student at Harvard University. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images) 
Circa 1906 — Harvard University, Artist Richard Rummel, Photogravure Print by A.W. Elston & Co., Boston, Published by F.D. Nichols, Co., 1906. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 
Circa 1909 — Cambridge, Massachusetts, US: high school and Latin school. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) 
Circa 1913 — A photograph of Harvard Yard at Harvard University, the large grassy area is the oldest portion of the campus, the yard contains classrooms and administration buildings, libraries and dormitories among other buildings, rows of trees, grass, sidewalks and several buildings can be seen in the photo, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). 
1913 — A photograph of Harvard Yard at Harvard University, the large grassy area is the oldest portion of the campus, the yard contains classrooms and administration buildings, libraries and dormitories among other buildings, rows of trees, grass, sidewalks and several buildings can be seen in the photo, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). 
1913 — An exterior photograph in near profile view of Agassiz Museum at Harvard University, the building is currently know as the Museum of Comparative Zoology, it is one of three natural history research museums at the university, it houses over 21 million specimens, the museum was founded in 1859, Cambridge, Massachusets. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). 
1913 — A photograph of the Class Day Tree at Harvard University, the tree was an American elm that the men of the graduating class would climb on class day in order to retrieve flowers tied to its branches, the tree was eventually lost to an insect infestation that attacked the elms in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). 
Circa 1914 — Detroit Publishing Company vintage postcard reproduction of the Washington Elm, under this tree Washington first took command of the American Army, Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the New York Public Library. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) 
Circa 1915 — Central Square and Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) 
January 1, 1915 — Two male undergraduates, one dressed as a dandy and the other crossdressed as a woman, walking arm-in-arm while being trailed by a group of young men and boys at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Thompson/Getty Images) 
January 1, 1920 — Officer Patrick F. Ready has his ax in hand as the police liquor raiding party pours illicit liquor down an East Cambridge sewer. Others in the photo, from left to right: Captain Timothy Leahy, an unidentified prohibition agent, Officer Fred Collins and Officer Timothy Callahan. (Photo by Hugh E. O’Donnell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
1921 — Print. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Barney Burstein/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) 
1921 — Advertisement for Flash house and hand cleaner by the Flash Chemical Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jay Paull/Getty Images) 
March 1922 — A course in radio at Radcliffe College. The Radcliffe radio station transmitted as well as received, as far as Chicago. In the group are Margaret Kirk of Watsontown, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Milton of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Katherine Hayes of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Margaret Benedict of Baltimore and Janet Goldman of New York. 
‘Circa 1923 — The House of Oliver Wendell Holmes at Cambridge, Mass. Published in The Outline of Literature, by John Drinkwater, London. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) 
Circa 1923 — Cambridge students in a fancy dress pram race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 
January 1923 — Cambridge rowing crew pushing their boat into the river for a practice session. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 
July 1, 1923 — Whilst Yale and Harvard Athletic teams practice at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mr. Oscar Seyd, secretary of the ACU, is at the wheel of a convertible Model T Ford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 
Circa 1926 — The Washington, Elm, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) 
August 8, 1927 — The Peabody Museum at Harvard University. (Photo by Globe Photographer/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1928 — The renovated Harvard Square subway station is pictured. After being the subject of criticism by motorists for many years because of its huge brick, rounded sides preventing view of oncoming traffic, the station has been reduced to two-thirds of its original size. (Photo by Globe Photographer/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1928 — A man works on an alternating current network analyzer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Photo by Schenectady Museum; Hall of Electrical History Foundation/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) 
February 1, 1930 — Nothing but the foundation of Locke Building at Harvard University is left. In the background is Harvard Business School dormitories and people skating on the Charles River. (Photo by Globe Photographer/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 2, 1932 — Pictured here is the newly created National Securities Exchange Commission, organized by the Government to protect the investing public, shown as they met for the first time in Washington, D. C. Left to right and seated are: Ferdinand Pecora, Chairman, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, and James M. Landis, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Standing is George C. Mathews of Madison, Wisconsin, and Robert E. Healy of Bennington, Vermont. The latter three are members of the Federal Trade Commission assigned to the Security Commission. 
March 1, 1935 — (Please read the next caption.) 
March 1, 1935 — Four men are shown during an experiment to break through the ice and flounder in the water of the Charles River in front of the Weld Boat House in Cambridge. They were “victims” of an ice rescue experiment conducted by the Massachusetts Committee to Further Outdoor Recreation. The committee was assisted by the Red Cross. The men broke through the ice “under actual accident conditions,” for a trained group of Red Cross rescuers, under Captain Jack Wallace to effect the rescue. Photo shows the men lying prone on the ice. 
September 13, 1936 — Memorial Hall is seen through one of the gated entrances to Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University. (Photo by Arthur Griffin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
January 1, 1941 — A night view from New England Mutual in Boston across the Charles River toward Cambridge at night, 1941. [Date is estimated]. (Photo by Charles Dixon/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1944 — View of IBM’s Harvard Mark I Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) on the campus of Harvard University. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images) 
1950s — Wide Northeast view of Longfellow Bridge spanning meandering Charles River joining Cambridge and Boston, Mass. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images) 
June 20, 1951 — Class Day at Harvard University. (Photo by Edmund Kelley/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1955 — U S Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) speaks at a lectern as President Harry Truman (1884 – 1972) laughs beside him during the Harvard University commencement ceremonies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images) 
June 1953 — People riding horses during the commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Allan Grant/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
June 1953 — Man riding horse during commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Allan Grant/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
May 15, 1954 — CAMBRIDGE, MA: Raymond S. McLay, owner for Tree-Land, Inc., not pictured, is donating 150 Japanese cherry trees to be planted here along the bank of the Charles River near the Eliot Bridge. (Photo by Charles Dixon/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
January 1, 1957 — Plotting of orbit of Sputnik I by scientists at MIT. (Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
January 1, 1957 — An aerial view of MIT. [Date approximated]. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
April 29, 1957 — Edward Kennedy, youngest son of former Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, is now a student at the University of Virginia Law School. He is shown with his brother, Senator John Kennedy, at his 1956 graduation from Harvard University. John received an honorary degree at the same time. 
July 16, 1957 — The whole block, outlined in this photo, would be razed to make way for the big Harvard Square development program. The area shown is divided by Massachusetts Avenue, Holyoke, Mt. Auburn, and Dunster Streets. (Photo by Paul Maguire/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
August 9, 1957 — An aerial view of college buildings at Harvard University. (Photo by Harry Holbrook/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
October 1957 — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory scientists doctors J. Allen Hynek (1911 – 1986) (left) and Fred Whipple plotting orbit of Sputnik I at the Harvard University campus. (Photo by Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
October 5, 1957 — An aerial view of MIT. (Photo by Harry Holbrook/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Late 1950s — Demonstration shows a shadow from a light source projected through a sphere. Between 1958 and 1961, Berenice Abbott worked for the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of an effort to create a new high school science curriculum–her photography, of which this is an example, appeared in a number of pamphlets and textbooks. (Photo by Berenice Abbott/Getty Images) 
Late 1950s — View of iron filings as they form shapes around magnets. (Photo by Berenice Abbott/Getty Images) 
Late 1950s — View of iron filings as they form shapes around magnets. (Photo by Berenice Abbott/Getty Images) 
Late 1950s — Time-exposure shows circular standing waves in a ripple tank. (Photo by Berenice Abbott/Getty Images) 
‘Late 1950s — Magnetic Field from Recto’, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-61. (Photo by Berenice Abbott/Getty Images) 
1960s — Aerial of Back Bay; view of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the Charles River. (Photo by C. P. May/ClassicStock/Getty Images) 
June 16, 1960 — From left, Senator John F. Kennedy; Bradford Washburn, director of the Science Museum; and David Rockefeller stand at Harvard University. Kennedy was on campus for an overseers meeting. (Photo by Jack O’Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
August 22, 1960 — Cars travel to and from Boston and Cambridge along the Harvard Bridge, which spans the Charles River, at 8:45 a.m. Photographed from the Boston side, MIT and Cambridge can be seen in the background. (Photo by Sam Hammat/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
September 3, 1960 — The corner of Sixth Street. (Photo by Charles Dixon/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
November 8, 1960 — After voting at 8:45 a.m. at the West End branch of the Boston Public Library at Cambridge and Lynde streets, Senator Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, left for the airport to fly to Hyannis. After she voted, Jackie said a bit nervously, “I hope that thing worked.” (Photo by Jack O’Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1961 — On the campus of Harvard University, a pair of unidentified models, a woman in a trench coat and scarf and a man wearing a double-breasted coat and hat, walk together under colorful umbrella, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The photo was taken as part of a fashion shoot for Esquire Magazine. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images) 
Circa 1961 — On the campus of Harvard University, a pair of unidentified models, a woman in a trench coat and scarf and a man wearing a double-breasted coat and hat, talk together. The photo was taken as part of a fashion shoot for Esquire Magazine. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images) 
Circa 1961 — On the campus of Harvard University, a pair of unidentified models, a woman in a trench coat and scarf and a man wearing a double-breasted coat and hat, talk together. The photo was taken as part of a fashion shoot for Esquire Magazine. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images) 
Circa 1961 — A group of unidentified models pose on the bank of the Charles River (near the John W. Weeks Bridge) on the campus of Harvard University. The photo was taken as part of a fashion shoot for Esquire Magazine. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images) 
Circa 1961 — Aerial view of the crowd during Harvard University’s commencement. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
March 3, 1961 — Looking across the Charles River from the Boston-side at Leverett House, right, and St. Paul’s Catholic Church tower, left. (Photo by John M. Hurley/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
January 15, 1962 — A massive traffic jam developed in a few minutes on the morning of Jan. 15, 1962, after an M.T.A. derailment in the Harvard Square tunnel. The station rapidly filled with riders and the crowd soon spilled out into the street. (Photo by Charles Dixon/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1962 — Scenery of a street in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Fritz Goro/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
Circa 1962 — The research facility for Polaroid Film. (Photo by Fritz Goro/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
Circa 1962 — Researchers outside the Polaroid research facility, Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Fritz Goro/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
Circa 1962 —The research facility for Polaroid. (Photo by Fritz Goro/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
October 8, 1962 — Cars drive over the Harvard Bridge, looking towards Cambridge. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
January 21, 1963 — An aerial view of the Prudential Center under construction, looking out over the Charles River and Cambridge. Christian Science Center is at fore left. (Photo by Edward F. Carr/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
May 13, 1963 — An aerial view of Harvard University with the Charles River in the background. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 1963 — American folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) 
July 11, 1963 — A Negro demonstrator is carried away after he was injured in a scuffle at Dizzyland Restaurant (background) in downtown Cambridge, Mass. The fighting broke out after a Federal mediator seeking to find a solution to Negro demands for integration said racial tensions in Cambridge were as dangerous as a “stick of dynamite.” 
October 19, 1963 — President Kennedy and Senator Edmund Muskie watch a Harvard-Columbia football game at Harvard Stadium. Later the president will attend a Democratic fundraising dinner at the Commonwealth Armory. 
October 19, 1963 — President John F. Kennedy in the stands at the Harvard vs. Columbia football game at Harvard Univ. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
November 22, 1963 — Radcliffe College students discussing morals. (Photo by Ted Russell/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images) 
November 22, 1963 — Dormitories for married students at Harvard University are under construction. (Photo by Dan Sheehan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
November 23, 1963 — Harvard University after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. (Photo by Ted Russell/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images) 
November 23, 1963 — A mourner was overwhelmed by grief outside a memorial service being held for President John F. Kennedy at Harvard University. (Photo by Ollie Noonan, Jr./The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
November 23, 1963 — At a Memorial Service at Harvard for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a young mourner sits on the steps. (Photo by Ollie Noonan, Jr./The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
February 1, 1964 — The Hospitable Kitchen of a Distinguished Cook: cook and author Julia Child’s hotel-style gas stove, at her house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Pedro E. Guerrero/Conde Nast via Getty Images) 
Circa 1964 — Doc Watson at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) 
Circa 1964 — Doc Watson at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) 
Circa 1964 — Doc Watson at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusett. (Photo by John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) 
April 23, 1964 — An aerial view of Harvard Square and Harvard Univ. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
April 23, 1964 — An aerial view of Harvard University and the Charles River. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
April 23, 1964 — An aerial view of the new MIT dorm rooms. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
June 9, 1964 — Leverett House Towers, left, and Dunster House rise above the Charles River, seen from the Boston-side. (Photo by Frank H. Hill/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
June 19, 1964 — An aerial view of Boston. (Photo by Phil Preston/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
June 19, 1964 — An aerial view of the Lechmere Station. (Photo by Phil Preston/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 1964 — American folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott at Club 47. (Photo by John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) 
July 1964 — American folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott at Club 47. (Photo by John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) 
July 10, 1964 — A popular Cambridge restaurant closed its doors in the face of picketing by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) members who protested the firm’s alleged discriminatory hiring practices. Some 15 CORE members are shown blocking counter at Hayem Bickford restaurant in Harvard Square. No incidents were reported. 
August 1, 1964 — An aerial view of Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by /The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
August 1, 1964 — An aerial view of Kendall Square. (Photo by /The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
August 18, 1964 — An aerial view of a new building complex on Memorial Drive built by Vappi & Company Inc. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
August 20, 1964 — Part of the 43 acres of the Kendall Square area that were set to be cleared in 1964 to make way for NASA Electronic Research Center and private industrial development. Railroad tracks mark the western boundary. (Photo by Jack O’Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
September 4, 1964 — Traffic is light at the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension feed-in at Cambridge Street and Soldier Field Road in Boston, as seen from the air. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
December 16, 1964 — Buildings at Harvard University. (Photo by Ed Farrand/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1960s — View of American psychologist Dr Timothy Leary (1920 – 1996) as he sits on the floor during an unspecified event at Harvard University. Visible in the background is fellow psychologist Dr Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass, 1931 – 2019). (Photo by Mooshake Greenberg/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images) 
March 19, 1965 — The view from the top of the Prudential Tower in Boston’s Back Bay, looking northwest over the Massachusetts Avenue bridge and Charles River toward Cambridge. (Photo by Gil Friedberg/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 1, 1965 —Looking west from downtown Boston toward Cambridge (right), the Charles River (center), the John Hancock and Prudential Towers (left). The Mass. State House and Park Street Church are at right. (Photo by Gil Friedberg/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
October 21, 1965 — Julia Child prepares to dine in the WBGH studio in Cambridge, MA. (Photo by Herbert Capwell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
November 2, 1965 — Television chef Julia Child cooks in Cambridge, MA. (Photo by Joseph Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1966 — Dr. Albert Coons of Harvard University Medical School in front of projected slides of glowing antibodies (L-R) 1st row: lupus erythematosus antibodies; antigens of SV40 virus, 2nd l. & 2nd r.; antigens of adenovirus, 3rd R. & r.; 2nd row: unidentified. (Photo by Yale Joel/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) 
April 29, 1966 — Ann Kinsella and Susan Hatahaway, both 18 and Jackson College Students, approach the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA. The theater is hosting a James Dean film festival. (Photo by Paul Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
May 3, 1966 — British film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Peter Dunne/Express/Getty Images) 
May 11, 1966 — People jaywalk across the street near the MBTA station at Harvard Square. (Photo by Bob Backoff/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
October 14, 1966 — Sheldon Cohen’s Out of Town News stand is pictured in Harvard Square.(Photo by Bill Brett/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
October 14, 1966 — Sheldon Cohen’s Out of Town News stand is pictured in Harvard Square.(Photo by Bill Brett/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1967 — Keydata Corporation’s new on-line, real time data processing systems are powered by Univac’s 490 Real Time System, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It can handle hundreds of subscribers at the same time. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) 
January 1, 1967 — The Old John Hancock Building towers above the New England Mutual Life Insurance building in Boston, as seen from along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. [Date unknown – estimated to year]. (Photo by Gil Friedberg/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
May 4, 1967 — Smilingly Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy (right) accept the first reel of more than 650,000 feet of news film and video tape as a joint gift from CBS News and NBC News for the John F. Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Mass. Making the present-President of CBS News, and William R. McAndrew, (2nd from left), President of NBC News. The film and tape record events in the public and private life of President Kennedy from early in 1954 until his death on November 22, 1963. 
May 4, 1967 — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) and Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925 – 1968). (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) 
May 4, 1967 — Close-up of American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994) at an event where 650,000 feet of news and video tape footage of the former president was donated as a joint gift from CBS News and NBC News for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The Library, originally planned to be located at Harvard University in Cambridge, was later relocated to Boston. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) 
June 23, 1967 — Aerial view of Harvard University and Harvard Square (r. center), Stadium, (upper l.), Massachusetts Avenue (r. foreground), runs perpendicular into Harvard Square. 
July 1967 — Cars are lined up in traffic on Massachusetts Avenue due to traffic pattern changes making streets one-way in the Harvard Square area. (Photo by Sam Masotta/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 11, 1967 — Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Ted Dully/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 12, 1967 — Susan Keane of Cambridge sailing on the Charles on a summer evening in July. Few large cities at this time had such a beautiful and accessible sailing are as the Charles River Basin. Community boating is the only program in the country where a fleet of sailboats and free instruction are made available at nominal rates to both adults and youngsters and membership is open to all, regardless of residence. (Photo by Joe Dennehy/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
July 13, 1967 — A new traffic pattern at Harvard Square, confuses motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. (Photo by Herbert Capwell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
December 7, 1967 — A woman leans against a wall in a “hippie” home rented by four women in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Ted Dully/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
December 8, 1967 — An aerial view of the John F. Kennedy library site. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
December 18, 1967 — An aerial view of Concord Ave. in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Joe Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
February 26, 1968 — Angela Lansbury receives Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award. (Photo by Joseph Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
Circa 1969 —A seagull flies past the ‘salt shaker’ towers of the Longfellow Bridge that connects Beacon Hill with Kendall Square. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images) 
Circa 1969 — Longfellow Bridge and Boston skyline. (Photo by MyLoupe/UIG Via Getty Images) 
January 28, 1969 — Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Julian Brown/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
January 28, 1969 — An aerial view of Cambridge, Mass. (Photo by Julian Brown/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
February 10, 1969 — People walk along the snow-covered Charles River. (Photo by Julian Brown/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) 
February 10, 1969 — Looking out over the icy Charles River towards Cambridge from the top of the Prudential Tower. (Photo by Jack O’Connell/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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