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...Harvard Memorial Society has placed a tablet in the post of the Yard fence adjoining Wadsworth House, to indicate the site of the two earliest College buildings, the foundations of which were discovered in December, 1909, and February, 1910, in the course of the excavations in Massachusetts avenue for the Cambridge subway. For a few hours the stones were to be seen in their original places after having been covered for more than 275 years; then they disappeared therefrom forever, and one more link with the past was broken. But the exact position of the stones was measured and recorded...
...Graduate Board of the University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has taken a step calculated to stimulate interest in that organization, and to extend its influence into the schools. Beginning with next year, a tablet in bas relief will be bestowed upon the school whose graduates enter the University with the highest standing. At the end of ten years this trophy will remain in the permanent possession of the school in whose hands it has been placed the greatest number of times. From year to year, the names of the different successful institutions will be appended to the tablet...
Each of the four posts is to bear on its face fronting the approach to the bridge, a pink marble tablet bearing an inscription in bronze Roman capitals, each inscription to be different from the others. Above the inscription on two of them will be the coat of arms of the Society of the Cincinnati the the badge of the Legion of Honor and the seal of the Society of the Spanish War. On the other two tablets will be the seal of the University. The inscription on the Cambridge end up-stream will read as follows...
...poets best known works, in front of which is set on a projecting pedestal, a bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting Miles Standish, Sandalphon, the village blacksmith, the Spanish student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. The tablet is in Renaissance style, and is exquisitely shaped and carved. The low relief figures, especially that of Sandalphon, the angel of Glory and Prayer, represent the highest exemplification of of the game should compare favorably with that of any future opponent...
...which is set on a projecting pedestal a Bronze portrait bust of Longfellow. The most interesting part of the statue is the bas-relief in the marble slab, depicting the characters in Longfellow's poems, Miles Standish, Sandolphon, the Village Blacksmith, the Spanish Student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. The tablet is in Renaissance style, and is exquisitely shaped and carved...