Word: harverde
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...group of about 50 persons-many of them graduate students or recent alumni of Harverd and other Bostonarea colleges-founded the local party in the summer of 1968 to "fight racism, the war, and the exploitation of working people and students by landlords and big business interests...
...interesting to note the various spellings, resulting largely from ignorance or carelessness, of the founder's name. Some of them have prieviously been mentioned: - "Harvye," "Harverde," and "Harvard." In the wills and other documents relating to them are found references to "Mrs. Harverd, als Harvey, wife of Mr. Thomas Hervard, als Harvey," and to "Richard Harverd als Harvy," and again to "Robert Harvy, als Harverde." Still other forms are "Harwar," "Harward" and "Haward." The last and perhaps the worst indignity to the name that the writer will mention, is found in a paper which contains a reference to property received...
BOSTON MUSEUM.-"Vacation, or Harverd vs. Yale." Performance...