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...Secretary was petitioned to ban it. Estimates of the amount of Moscow gold backing the "atheists" ranged from 150,000 to 14,000,000 rubles. Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, organized a March of Atonement in which 150,000 Catholic men would walk this week from Southwark to Westminster Cathedral. Said he: "The religious leaders of this land cannot be held responsible if the opposition to the congress should take an active form leading to civil disorder...
...appeal for $125,000 backed by the Lord Mayor himself is being made in London for the restoration of Southwark Cathedral where John Harvard was baptised and later married...
Early one morning last week in the heart of London the bells of Southwark Cathedral clanged to commemorate a distinguished act by an otherwise undistinguished Southwark citizen named John Harvard. Across the Atlantic in Cambridge, Mass., great scholars from the earth's four corners joined in solemn procession to pay homage to the school that John Harvard helped to found. After 300 years Harvard was not only the oldest and richest university in the U. S. but also one of the world's brightest lamps of learning...
...Southwark butcher, Harvard was converted to Puritanism at Cambridge, soon sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to preach it. Still a young man, he died "of a consumption" a year later, bequeathing to the new school his library of 400 volumes and some ?800 which enabled it to open its doors as Harvard College in the autumn of 1638. Last week no one knew what Benefactor Harvard looked like or where he was buried...
Most spectacular of these is from the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, London, birthplace of John Harvard. Brilliantly illuminated and hand printed in striking colors, this letter is signed by the Mayor and Town Clerk of Southwark, who were present at the Harvard exercises...