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...Harvard Memorial Society will give a banquet tonight at 7 o'clock in Memorial Hall in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. President Eliot will preside, and there will be informal speaking...
...BRIEF SERVICE IN OBSERVANCE OF THE THREE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF JOHN HARVARD. Professor E. C. Moore will conduct the Service. Address by the Rev. Professor Francis G. Peabody, D.D., on "John Harvard's Religion," and by the Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., on "The Church in the College." Appleton Chapel...
...still needed, and all men in the University who have ever played a brass instrument are urged to come out. Besides playing at parades and mass meetings and at the Yale game, the band will also play at the torchlight procession in honor of the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard on November...
...children of Stratford-on-Avon, where both families lived. In one of Thomas Rogers' numerous trips to London, he prob- ably met Robert Harvard, the father of John Harvard, also a marketman. In 1605 Robert Harvard, of Southwark, married Katherine Rogers, and in November, 1607, occurred John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have been known to William Shakespeare. When John Harvard was 18, he lost his father and two brothers in the plague, and at the age of twenty, after his mother's third marriage, he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. We know much of his life...
Today is the last day to send applications for tickets for the dinner to be given by the Memorial Society on November 26, in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. Applications should be sent to G. G. Glass, Treasurer, Box 11, Cambridge, Mass., and should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope, and by a check which will cover the cost of tickets. The price of tickets will...