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...thirty-sixth annual international convention of the Young Men's Christian Association will be held in Washington, D. C. from November 22 to November 27, under the auspices of the Washington Y. M. C. A. The Harvard Christian Association will be represented by the following undergraduate and graduate members: A. S. Johnson '85, chairman of the Phillips Brooks House graduate advisory committee, A. L. Thayer '04, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, C. W. Gilkey '04, G. Gleason '97, J. M. Groves '05, S. B. Booth 08. J. M. Groton '09 and W. R. Ohler...
...books duplicating, so far as possible, those which Harvard bequeathed to the infant College and which were burnt in the fire of 1764. The collection is by no means complete, but it is sufficiently extensive to give a good idea of the character of the library owned by the young Puritan clergyman. In looking at these books, which are now old and dilapidated, it must be borne in mind that the greater part of them were recently published works in Harvard's time, and that his library, while containing a good many classics and older works, was, on the whole...
...Karl Young...
...third marriage, he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. We know much of his life there, his teachers, the events of which he was a spectator, and above all, his friends, chief among whom was John Milton, one year his junior. There was a close friendship between the two young men during the five years of John Harvard's residence in Cambridge. At 28, he received the degree of A.M.: Of his character we know almost nothing, except that he chose good friends, and had a literary bent. In 1636 he married Saddler's sister, and in 1637 came to America...
...spoiled an otherwise unobjectionable transcript of the vivid and irrational impressions of port after long days at sea, by an awkward exit in a temporizing last paragraph. As a result, the whole article has the air of not knowing what to do with its hands. Mr. MacVeagh's "The Young God's Holiday" is a true and graceful allegory, well told, phrased and staged...