Word: louisburg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Not many students know, perhaps, that the gilded cross over the entrance to the library is a trophy of the capture of Louisburg by the New England troops in 1744. It was taken from a French church, and its present location is the more appropriate, since the motto of Colonial troops was: "Nil desperandum Christo duce," and that of the college is "Christo et Ecclesiau...
...Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built his hut on the Shawmut peninsula, not far from where Louisburg Square now is in Boston, the old Cambridge planted here another of her sons, who had fled, as he said, from the Lords bishops, and was destined to fly once again from the Lords brethren, - for William Blackstone was not only a son of that great University...