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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony next year in which Harvard College will play an important part were made public last night by Herbert Parker '78, chairman of the State Commission, in a report filed yesterday with the clerk of the Legislature...
Highlights of the tremendous program which is planned for the Bay State Tercentenary in 1930 include a permanent memorial to commemorate the Founders of the colony, a musical festival, commemorative observances especially related to the development of the law of the Commonwealth in which the Harvard Law School will probably participate, and, as a climax, a magnificent celebration on July 15 which is planned to be the most splendid and stately occasion ever seen in this country...
...plans to conduct in the State House commemorative observances of the first sitting of the General Court. This celebration will be of particular interest to members of the University, who will remember that Harvard College was founded in 1636 by a vote of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who voted 400 pounds to the establishment of a college. Consequently any celebration of the inauguration of parliamentary administration, centered as it was in the General Court, is definitely related to the early history of the College...
...celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony anticipates the tercentenary of the College by a scant six years, and although the college will undoubtedly mark its own birthday, it will also have a prominent part to play in the state-wide celebrations which take place next year. The Law School will have an important position, as the observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state...
Just as Harvard graduates were fore-most among those who from the earliest years of the Bay Colony helped materially to build up Massachusetts and the Nation, so today Harvard graduates form the majority of the committee which is working to make the observance of the founding of the colony an event of national and international significance. The celebration which they plan will only serve to bring into sharper relief the great part that Harvard has played in history...