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...John Harvard statue before University Hall was modeled for Sculptor Daniel Chester French by onetime (1891-93) U. S. Representative Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882. Last week the Boston press revealed that the vacant lot in Charlestown, Mass., in which John Harvard is supposedly buried is now being used as a dump...
...clergy, especially representatives of the six original parishes of Cambridge, Watertown, Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Roxbury, whose ministers made up, with the magistrates, the College's original Board of Overseers...
...strife of Civil War was foreshadowed by the abortive slave insurrection fomented by John Brown of Ossawattomie at Harpers Ferry, Va. Wounded, captured, the mad old man was brought in his bed to court at Charlestown, Va. (now Charles Town, W. Va.), to hear sentence passed. A New York Tribune reporter was nearby. "Brown sat up in bed, while the verdict was rendered." he telegraphed his paper. "The jury found him guilty of treason, advising and conspiring with slaves and others to rebel, and for murder in the first degree. Brown lay down quickly and said nothing. There...
...issue of March 17, the Harvard "Crimson" announced that "Unidentified Harvard students will take a vigorous part in aiding striking garment workers to picket." In true Hearst fashion, the "Crimson" then states "these students, it is said, will make a determined effort to repeat the riot at Charlestown...
...lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took to telling me about a lecture he heard recently by an Harvard alumnus wherein much was said about the grave of John Harvard in Charlestown Cemetery being in a deplorable condition and not being tended properly for years. This did make me very sore at my heart and I vowed to bring it to the attention of Mr. Green and the tercentenary authorities when I returned; for if it is true it is indeed a sorry reflection...