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Richard Rummell's 1906 watercolor view of Harvard’s main campus, in Cambridge

The first telephone directory, printed in New Haven, Conn., in November 1878

“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925 -2008), conservative writer and editor