--- description: 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... title: Education: Harvard's China image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Education: Harvard's China by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 19, 1928 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 19, 1928 5:00 AM CUT 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6777685/education-harvards-china/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6777685/education-harvards-china/"},"headline":"Education: Harvard's China","datePublished":"1928-03-19T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T14:50:56.803Z","description":"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...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6777685/education-harvards-china/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6777685/education-harvards-china/","name":"Education: Harvard's China"}}]}] ```