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Many old and interesting books are kept in the archives of Widener. The other day, for instance, Harvard University librarians turned up one reason why the Harvard student body of the Revolutionary War period ran the Reverend Samuel Langdon, President of the College, 1774-80, out of office. His sermons to the students were too long, it is disclosed...
...Langdon's lengthy sermons manuscripts has been uncovered in the University archives, and has been placed on public display in Widener Library along with other valuable early records. The manuscript is in a private, original shorthand, devised by Langdon so he could compress his notes. In this form, written minutely, the notes fill twenty-four pages. It is probable the sermon required more than two hours rapid talking for delivery, authorities agree. Nobody has yet undertaken to decode the message...
...Langdon, who was a classmate of Samuel Adams, and a good friend of John Hancock, was swept into the Harvard presidency on a wave of patriotic sentiment in 1774. But his popularity immediately waned. The new President believed in declaiming on the Scripture for ninety minutes or more at a time, Sunday mornings; soon he discovered this was not enough, and he cancelled the traditional Sunday evening singing services in order "to give more time for his harangue...
...annual business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society was held at 8 o'clock this morning in Harvard Hall. Langdon P. Marvin President of the Harvard Chapter, presided. Because of the Tercentenary the oration and poem were not delivered at this annual meeting, but will be postponed until September...
Attending Harvard in the period covered by this newly discovered kitchen account book were students who later became famous, among them Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts and delegate to the Continental Congress; Artemas Ward, Commander-in-Chief of the Massachusetts troops and delegate to the Continental Congress; Samuel Langdon, President of Harvard; Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut; James Bowdoin, President of the Constitutional Convention and Governor of Massachusetts; Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts; Thomas Clap, President of Yale; and four other delegates to the Continental Congress, Robert Treat Paine, William Ellery, Thomas Cushing, and James Otis