Word: johnes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Memorial Society will celebrate the 310th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard in the Delta by Memorial Hall tomorrow morning at 8.15 o'clock with short exercises in which the first and second battalions will participate. The colors will be borne and the Regimental Band will play "Fair Harvard" and "The Star Spangled Banner." After the exercises on the Delta services in Appleton Chapel in commemoration of John Harvard will conclude the celebration...
Little is known of John Harvard. Biographers who have attempted to portray his life have ascertained only a dozen dates of his career, and several of these indicate in a very uncertain manner the more important events of his life. The records state that he was born in 1607, that he was the son of a butcher and that four of his brothers and sisters perished in the great plague at London...
...celebration of the birth of John Harvard will take place not on Monday, November 26, his true birthday, but on Tuesday morning, in the Delta by Memorial Hall. This change was made by the Memorial Society, under whose auspices the short exercises will be held, in order that a detail from the R. O. T. C. might take part in the celebration. Detachments from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and possibly both battalions entire, which hold their regular drill on Tuesday morning, will march to John Harvard's statue for the exercises. Exact plans for the participation of the University...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when research students discovered the following record in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, England: "1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of a child three days after his birth, the Memorial Society, which each year holds commemoration services, decided in 1910 to fix November 26 in the year 1607 as the correct date of the birth of John Harvard...
...310th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard will be celebrated on Tuesday morning, November 27, at 8.15 o'clock at the John Harvard statue on the Delta near Memorial Hall. In past years speeches on the life of John Harvard have been delivered by members of the Memorial Society and by undergraduates. This year, however, the celebration will be limited to a short exercise in which a detail from those battalions having drill on Tuesday morning will participate. The colors will be borne and the regimental band will play "Fair Harvard" and "The Star Spangled Banner...