Harvard chair

noun

, Furniture.

1. a three-legged armchair of the late 17th century, composed of turned uprights and spindles and having a triangular seat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Harvard chair¹

After Harvard University

Example Sentences

There is even a trace of institutional chauvinism among the numerous Kennedy curios: a black wooden chair that was in the White House during the Kennedy presidency bears the wry inscription "The only proper seat of government is the Harvard chair."

From Time Magazine Archive

With his leave of absence expiring, Braintruster Schlesinger resigned his lifetime Harvard chair to cast his lot with Washington instead of Cambridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

But carrying out the scheme, which may include endowment of a new Harvard chair, will take another $2,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wodehouse and Robert Benchley he borrowed from the library as a child, or, as he later recalled, the "chastely severe, time-honored classics" he read in his dorm room at Harvard University, leaning back in his "wooden Harvard chair," cigarette in hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have promised to provide for her with the comforts denied her by her father, and I have lived in the ambition of holding that Harvard chair—Oh, it is all a hopeless tangle.

From Project Gutenberg