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Several times this year mention has been made of the gilt cross over the entrance to the library, but as far as we know its real history has not been told. When, in 1745 Louisburg surrendered to Sir William Pipperell and the Massachusetts troops, the cross was taken as a trophy and was brought to Cambridge on the return of the soldiers. The date of the capture and a further inscription were printed upon it and it was given a place among other relics which were formerly preserved in Harvard Hall. After the removal of the library from that building...
...gilt cross over the entrance to the College Library, said to be a trophy from the siege of Strasburg, was really taken by Amherst of the English Colonial army from the fortress of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, in 1758, during the French and Indian...
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...
...gilt cross above the entrance of the Library is said to have been brought from Louisburg at the time of its surrender to Sir William Pepperel and the Massachusetts troops, in 1745. This date is said to have been painted on it, with a further inscription, when it was preserved formerly among other relics in Harvard Hall; but, after the removal of the library from that building in 1841, these relics were transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited, and, in a fire in which that building was consumed, the inscription on the cross...