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Because old places are living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed...
...Little St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, only a fraction of the size of this college, should nevertheless be of interest to Harvard students this year because of an experiment in education which is the exact opposite of the system here. Backed by President Hutchins of Chicago University, this institution is launching a compulsory curriculum based on the "Hundred Great Books" which, according to its authorities, are the foundation of all our knowledge and culture. It is, roughly, a chronological study of the arts and sciences of the ages, conforming to its supporters' idea of what is the basis...
Built in 1596, a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture, the House is the birthplace of Katharine Rogers, mother of John Harvard. Katharine married Robert Harvard, of St. Saviour's, South wark (London), and there is good reason to believe that her most famous contemporary, William Shakespeare, was present at the wedding, for not only was he a Stratford neighbor of the Harvards, but also was a member of the South-wark parish where John was baptized...
...October 6, 1909, exactly 29 years ago, the House was formally delivered to the University by the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, William Whitelaw Reid, and it was a remarkable coincidence that the same day and almost the same hour, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, was installed as president in Memorial Hall, some 3000 miles away. While our ambassador was paying honor to John Harvard at Stratford, the British ambassador was paying his respects to the University at President Lowell's inaugural ceremonies...
Edmund A. Stephan 3L, of New York, is the newly installed president; Milton I. Goldstein 3L, of St. Louis, vice-president; James A. Moore 3L, of California, Maryland, secretary; W. Walker Lewis, Jr., 3L, of Middletown, Ohio, treasurer; and Jerome C. Hofmayer 3L, director. Two second-year directors are Charles E. Schaaf, of Cambridge and Herman Gross, of Staten Island, New York...