So pleased was President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University on being shown some broken 100-year-old dinner plates dug up in the backyard of University Hall, that he ordered the Wedgewood Potteries of Staffordshire, England, to manufacture 42,000 old-fashioned plates bearing pictures of new Harvard buildings. Many of these plates will be sold to loyal sons of John Harvard.
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