To preserve the anonymity of these student guinea pigs, experimenters referred to individuals by code name only. Murray, conducted a disturbing and what would now be seen as ethically indefensible experiment on twenty-two undergraduates. There, from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962, Harvard psychologists, led by Henry A. Known as the Annex, it served as a laboratory in which staff members of the Department of Social Relations conducted research on human subjects. In 1959 a comfortable old house stood on the site. 7 Divinity Avenue is a modern multi-story academic building today, housing the university’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. This time my return was prompted not by nostalgia but by curiosity. These left such a vivid impression that a decade later my recollection of them inspired me, then a senior in high school, to apply to Harvard.
Near the end of this dead-end street sits the Peabody Museum-a giant Victorian structure attached to the Botanical Museum, where my mother had taken me as a young boy, in 1943, to view the spectacular exhibit of glass flowers. On a trip there last fall I found myself a few blocks north of Harvard Yard, on Divinity Avenue.
Like many Harvard alumni, I sometimes wander the neighborhood when I return to Cambridge, reminiscing about the old days and musing on how different my life has been from what I hoped and expected then.
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