The Little Dig?

Our version of the Big Dig may not have cost as much as Boston’s and certainly didn’t take as long to finish, but construction of the Littauer building was still worth posing for, as Frank Stanton and Graham Allison did in 1977. The 100,000 square-foot building was the first built for the new school, followed by Belfer, Eliot, and Taubman. Original plans called for all concrete and glass, which Allison, wearing the spiffy plaid blazer, vetoed as the school’s new dean. Stanton, wearing the Harvard insignia hardhat, was chair of the school’s visiting committee. The all-brick building debuted in the fall of 1978.