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...connection with Patriots Day tomorrow, it is one of the lesser-known facts of Harvard history that the Battle of Lexington and Concord, fought 158 years ago, was largely responsible for the establishment of the Medical School...
...colonists who were wounded during the battle were cared for by their comrades and were carried to their own homes. No one paid any attention to the British wounded, however, and the survivors of the march on Concord were in too much of a hurry to bother with them. It remained for Dr. Isaac Foster, Jr. of Charleston, a Harvard graduate of the class of 1758 and a member of the Provincial congress, to set up a hospital at what is now 95 Brattle Street. The wounded British prisoners were taken there, and within two months Dr. Foster...
Immediately following the battle the students were sent away and the occupation of the College buildings by the Continental troops began. The library was moved to Andover for safe keeping, the College itself resumed classes in Concord but returned to Cambridge in time to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The five buildings which comprised Harvard College in 1775 were placed at the disposal of the army. Approximately 640 men were squeezed into Massachusetts Hall, a building normally meant to house 64 supernatural phenomena. Bells rang in "Scholars." About the same number was placed in "The New College...
George Moses is no stranger to editorial rooms. He went to the Concord Evening Monitor after he was graduated from Dartmouth in 1890. Before he was sent as U. S. Minister to Greece & Montenegro in 1909, he was publisher. His defeat for re-election to the Senate (where he served 14 years on the Foreign Relations Committee), his 64 hard-lived years, have not dulled George Moses' tongue...
...Cochrane Cusing of New York City, Donald Frederick Cutler, Jr., of Dover, John Francis Ducey, Jr., of Boston, George Wilfred Harris of West Roxbury, Howard Allen Hoffman of Newark, New Jersey, Alvin Josephy, Jr., of New York City, Francis Keyes of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, William Davis Locke of Concord, Deric Nusbaum of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Charles Eliot Pierce of Milton, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt of Glen Cove, New York, Gardner Edward Prouty, Jr., of Littleton, Joseph Foster Robbins of Weston, George Thorn Skinner of North Wales, Pennsylvania, and Robert Stevenson Wolcott of Milton...