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...very apt in this part of the world to trace every thing back to the "Mayflower," and there is no small reason for it now, when we consider how signal a mark our great mother University on the Cam has put upon this region about Boston harbor and its affluents. One of the first expeditions which the Pilgrims at Plymouth sent out, was one by boat under command of Miles Standish to explore the waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance...
...Roger Williams with his doctrine of Soul-liberty, as he called it, had not passed, for the good of both, I suspect, from the bay of the Massachusetts to that of the Narragansetts? These were but few of the spirits who were transplanted from the banks of the Cam to the neighborhood of the Charles, and fairest among them all, the most fortunate character that ever passed into our earlier American history, John Harvard, that son of Emmanuel, who is foremost in our minds in these festival days...
...friends and of those of the college. And so the figure of John Harvard rises before us to-day, doubly sacred, very likely for the scant knowledge which we have of him, lofty and august in the ideal which he represents, the gift of the great University on the Cam to this other great University of the Charles...
Harvard, founded in 1638, out dates a majority of the German Universities, as Halle was founded in 1694, Breslau, 1702; Gottingen, 1737; Berlin, 1810; and Bonn, 1815. Heidelberg, the oldest German University, was founded in 1386. - Cam. Chronicle...
HARVARD COLLEGE, CAM., MASS., March...