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John Harvard and the Note of Reason by Samuel Eliot Morison. Read on November 8th, 1936, the 300th anniversary of the founder's birth...
...Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, then President James Bryant Conant '13, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Tercentenary historian Samuel Eliot Morison addresesed the gathered crowd. Each encouraged the listeners in Tercentenary Theater to rejoice in the vigour and perseverence that had brought Harvard to its 300th birthday and to apply that same optimistic determination to the solution of contemporary ills in society...
...Founding of Harvard College", Morison remarks, "From the small college here planted in sylvestribus et incultis locis on the edge of the Western Wilderness, Harvard University has grown, and higher education in the United States is largely dervied. So we are gathered here to commemorate our founders and early benefactors; to thank God for the faith, overriding all prudentobjections and practical difficulties, thatsustained them through poverty and struggle, in soambitious and so excellent an enterprise...
...historian Samuel E. Morison '08 said in hishistory of Harvard that he could only verify thatHarvard received about half of the money--375pounds. It is widely believed that PresidentNathanial Eaton squandered the rest of John'sgift. Eaton was fired the year after the Collegereceived Harvard's gift; students charged that hebeat them brutally and that his wife served themhasty pudding made with goat droppings...
Some of the information for this story comesfrom information and letters in the Harvardarchives, Samuel Eliot Morison's histories ofHarvard, and E. J. Kahn's "Harvard."Courtesy of Harvard University Archives...