Word: concords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Washington's connections with Harvard began when he arrived in Cambridge on July 2, 1775. His headquarters were at first in Wadsworth House, the building, still standing, which was used for many years as the home of the College President. Harvard College had already been removed to Concord, and only President Laugden's office was maintained in Wadsworth House while Washington used it as headquarters. Meals for several thousand soldiers were at this time cooked in the college kitchen, and the college buildings were used to quarter troops pending the building of barracks on Cambridge Common...
...after years a Temple was erected from the proceeds of the confiscated Gracchan property called the Temple of Concord. On one dark night a man stole in and etched the brother's common epitaph for all the world-"Out of discord comes Concord." They were honest and brave men who died for the principles they so staunchly supported. But they did not die in vain for they sowed the seeds of democracy which was eventually to bring down the foundations of the republic amid the far off thunder of the Triumvirate. Today at 9 in Sever 18 Mr. Hammond will...
...Written in a neat spidery hand which is almost certainly that of John Dickenson of Pennsylvania, it was the final petition to George III by the American Colonies to right their wrongs. Drawn up and signed by 46 members of the Second Continental Congress on July 8, 1775 (after Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill), it had been confided to the care of Richard Penn who on Sept. 1 presented it to Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Dartmouth presumably made an unsuccessful effort to show it to the King. He reported: "As his majesty did not receive...
...ballots to be mailed in April to all holders of Harvard degrees eligible to vote, are as follows: Minot Simons '91, of New York City; Daniel Fiske Jones '92, of Boston; Nathan Hayward '95, of Philadelphia; Albert Arnold Sprague '98, of Chicago; Robert Eliot Goodwin '01, of Concord; Albert Francis Bigelow '03, of Brookline; Trowbridge Calloway '05, of New York City; Robert Amory '06, of Milton; George Whitney '07, of New York City; DeCoursey Fales '11, of New York City; Christian Archibald Herter '15, of Boston; Richard Cary Curtis '16, of Boston; Francis Parkman '19, of Southboro; Barklie McKee Henry...
...Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will be the guest of honor at the Leverett House dinner tonight. He will speak after dinner in the Students' Common Room on "Pedants." H. C. Kittredge '12, Master of St. Pauls School, Concord, New Hampshire, will also be present at the dinner...