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...Bancroft Beatley '15, Henry Bromfield Rogers, Roxbury, Roxbury...
...service as a college dormitory, Hollis has sheltered some of the most celebrated of Harvard men. Among them have been Ralph Waldo Emerson '21; the orators Edward Everett 1811 and Wendell Phillips '31; the historians George Bancroft 1817, Francis Parkman '44, and Charles Francis Adams '25; the great jurists Josiah Quincy '63, and Joseph H. Choate '52. President Lowell and President Eliot were also residents of the hall during their undergraduate days...
...ranks of the diplomatic service have been filled largely by college graduates. Harvard has contributed by far the largest number, those of the greatest prominence being--John Adams 1755. John Quincy Adams 1787, Elbridge Gerry 1762, Rufus King 1777, George Bancroft '17, Calbe Cushing '17, John Lothrop Motley '31, James Russell Lowell '38, John Chandler Bancroft Davis '40, and Joseph Hodges Choate '52. In addition George Downing 1642, went to England and became minister to Holland for Cromwell and Charles II. His name is perpetuated in Downing street...
...story of how the young man happened to come to Harvard is one of exceptional interest to Harvard men. It began in a letter written in 1847 by Edward Everett, then President of the University, to George Bancroft who was at his post as minister to Great Britain, a post which President Everett himself had previously filled. In that letter President Everett asked Mr. Bancroft to deliver some books--including a set of Quincy's "History of Harvard"--to Rev. John Harvard of Plymouth, England, whom President Everett spoke of as "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor at the beginning...
...years ago M. A. DeWolfe Howe of Boston found the letter in some old files while he was preparing for publication "The Life and Letters of George Bancroft." An opportunity to make inquiries suggested by the letter presented itself in 1908 when Mr. Howe's friend, Louis A. Holman of Boston, went to England for several months of work involving antiquarion and other research. In Plymouth Mr. Holman could get little information about Rev. John Harvard who preached there sixty years before, but he finally learned of two sons, Rev. John C. Harvard of Sheffield, who had died...