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Plans for celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony next year in which Harvard College will play an important part were made public last night by Herbert Parker '78, chairman of the State Commission, in a report filed yesterday with the clerk of the Legislature...
Highlights of the tremendous program which is planned for the Bay State Tercentenary in 1930 include a permanent memorial to commemorate the Founders of the colony, a musical festival, commemorative observances especially related to the development of the law of the Commonwealth in which the Harvard Law School will probably participate, and, as a climax, a magnificent celebration on July 15 which is planned to be the most splendid and stately occasion ever seen in this country...
...commission, under the direction and with the approval of the Senate and the House of Representatives, plans to conduct in the State House commemorative observances of the first sitting of the General Court. This celebration will be of particular interest to members of the University, who will remember that Harvard College was founded in 1636 by a vote of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who voted 400 pounds to the establishment of a college. Consequently any celebration of the inauguration of parliamentary administration, centered as it was in the General Court, is definitely related to the early...
...Lowell Institute here twice in past years. His address will come at the height of the tercentennial celebration, after a procession of dignitaries from all over the world has marched to a special pavilion which will, it is planned, be erected on the terrace in front of the State House. This pavilion will seat about 4000 people, all of whom will be guests invited by the Commonwealth, including the President of the United States, the governors of all the states of the Union, and prominent college and university officials from all over the country. The proceedings, however, will be visible...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Harvard College. These are names, which are inseparably connected by history and tradition, and the record of the former has received much of its lustre through the able guidance of graduates from the college on the Charles. For well over a century Harvard was a state institution, and the close relationship is still evidenced by the part which the Governor of the Commonwealth plays in the annual commencement exercises...