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...Robt. a Butcher." It has generally been assumed that he was not baptized on the day of his birth, but according to the custom of the church in this time, three days after. This custom may or may not have been followed. However, at the time of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard in 1907, the celebration was arranged for November 26 in accordance with the custom cited above. On this date a special service was held in Appleton Chapel in the morning and in the evening about three hundred and fifty graduates and undergraduates attended...
...Appleton Chapel this morning at the time of the usual morning prayers. Rev. Francis J. McConnell, D.D., LL.D., president of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, who will conduct the service, will speak on "The Immortality of Good Works. Last year the anniversary was commemorated in this way, and the 300th anniversary in 1907 was made the occasion of a great undergraduate celebration. It is planned to mark the birthday henceforth by a brief address similar to the one given today...
This evening the undergraduates will have their principal opportunity of participating in the ceremonies attendant upon the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. The lectures and the dinner have all had their part in the observance of this occasion, but they have been limited in their scope...
...been definitely decided that the banquet which the Memorial Society will hold November 26 for graduates and undergraduates of the University, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, will be held in Memorial Hall. A vote was taken on the proposition last night at the Hall, which showed that an overwhelming majority of the members were in favor...
...Paul's Society has undertaken to raise a thank-offering to be added to an offering now being raised among men of every diocese and parish in the country, and to be handed over in a lump sum to the Board of Missions at the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Episcopal Church in America next October. The Society has sent out letters to churchmen in the University, stating that the thank-offering is to be devoted to extending the work of the Church at home and abroad, and to increasing its missionary force in churches, schools and hospitals...