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...service the familiar hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem," written by Phillips Brooks, will be sung. Reference will also be made to the things which the Phillips Brooks House has received from the estate of Phillips Brooks, including his desk and chair, the rug from his study, and an autograph letter...
Within a few days a remarkable framed autograph letter by Phillips Brooks has been set in position on the left of the fire place in the parlor of the Phillip Brooks House. It gives Phillips Brooks' judgment of the religious character of Harvard College, and was written in March, 1887, in the first year after compulsory religious exercises in the University had been abolished, and the voluntary system introduced. The letter was written to Charles Lewis Slattery '91, now Dean of the Cathedral at Faribault, Minnesota, who has now given it to the Phillips Brooks House. It is an interesting...
...library is using as an autograph book for the names of distinguished visitors a handsomely bound volume which was sent over from England in 1765 by Thomas Hollis, a liberal benefactor of the University in the eighteenth century. On the first page he wrote this inscription: "This book was bound long since to serve a noble purpose. It may still serve some noble purpose in Cambridge in New England." For over a hundred and thirty-five years the volume has remained in the library unused, but henceforth it is to be kept for the signatures of visitors. The first signatures...
...magazine contains cuts of Bertram Hall at Radcliffe, of the 1875 gate and of the College pump. The frontispiece of the number is a facsimile of the fly-leaf of a book inscribed with John Harvard's autograph, which was recently found in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The book and the circumstances of its discovery are described in a short article entitled "A New Autograph of John Harvard...
...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...