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...ages ago the place was thickly populated with a prehistoric people. The first ancient village was buried only to be followed by a second and third, each of which was buried in its turn. The remains consist of a large number of houses belonging to three distinct races, the oldest of which lived many hundreds of years ago. There are also many excellent specimens of rude pottery and stone implements...
Great interest was shown by the delegates in the appearance of Dr. James Lloyd Wellington '38, of Swansea, the oldest living graduate...
Philip K. Walcott '97, whose sudden death in New York City is announced, was known as a legal adviser of municipalities and bond dealers in matters of municipal finance throughout this country and Canada. He belonged to one of the oldest families of New England, and was born in Concord, December 11, 1877, a son of Charles Hosmer and Florence (Keyes) Walcott. He was graduated at Harvard College cum laude in 1897 and attended the Harvard Law School for two years and New York University Law School for one year. He was admitted to the New York...
Probably few undergraduates know under what strict rules the students of Harvard College in early times were governed. From a number of the oldest records and orders of the College overseers, many of them partly destroyed, Albert Matthews '82, who is editing the history of Harvard before 1750 for the Massachusetts Historical Society, has collected and summarized the laws which a student had to obey at that period...
...Harvard College is the oldest college in the country, having been established in 1636; and it was the first of the American colleges to expand into a university. It was founded in liberty-loving Massachusetts at a time when the ministers were the ruling class, and the whole community knew that their ministers ought to be well educated...