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...interesting list of the Freshmen in 1734 as 'placed' by the Faculty in the order of their parents' social rank. A volume containing photographic similies of documents relating to the facts of John Harvard's life includes that of the marriage of John Harvard and Anne Sadler of Ringmer, April 19, 1636. The record is taken from the Parish Register, South Malling...
...Ambassador Harvey, who is about to retire, unveiled a picturesque signpost commemorating the wives of William Penn and John Harvard, given to the villagers of Ringmer in Sussex by Lady Demetriadi, who is a descendant of William Penn's first wife, a daughter of Sir William and Lady Springett of Ringmer. At the unveiling ceremony Mr. Harvey said: " To the motorist it is far more advantageous in a material sense to have a signpost pointing the way even to London than a monument showing that somebody has gone to Heaven." This moved his cheerful audience to laughter...
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