Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-22
rHE HARVARD MONUMENT.

Harvard, in the burying ground in Charles
town. by a number Of the Alumni OF Har-
GARD Uniyersity. The address then de
liyerd BY MIR. Everett has since been printed,
at the request Of the committee OF arrange
men,s, in a neat pamphlet, with historical notes
and an appendix, containing an account oil the
proceedings in procuring and erecting the mon
ument. and the letter of President Adams, which
wssread at the time OF the ceremony-it nav
imp been expected thai lac would be present
deliver the address.
AnAddress delivered at the erection Of mon-
ument TO John Harvard, Sep. 80. 1928, oy
Edward Everett.
We are assembled, fellow-s'udentT, and TEL
low citizens to witness the erection OF sim
ME monument to the memory vi John Harvaic.
IL is known 10 you all, with what ready toie-
thought, our pilgrim fathers provided for the
ed,catiok of those who should come after them.
Six years only had elapsed, from the time that
Governor Winthrop, with the charter OF The
COLONY. SET his foot on the banks OF Msuc riS-
err. when the general court appropriated Tour
hundred mounds, out Of the scanty resources at
its command, for the erection of q school, or
college. at Cambridge, then called Newton
The views uf The worthy fathers. at This time,
probably did no, extend beyond the establish
ment OF q grammar school.
But tina, Providence, which, on so many o.
Their occasions watched over the infancy OF A
merica, aud gave the RICH, direction to its hrst
beginnings, was yisiant here. In the year 1857
(the year following that in which the schooi al
Newton was estabIished,) the Rev. John Har-
ward arrived in the colony. As he was admit
ted freeman in November, 1857, II is suppos-
ed ,ba, he came over IN the autumn OF that
year.
This ever memorable benefactor OF learning
and religion IN America, had been educated at
the university Of ambridge in England, was
master of arts OF Emanuel College in that uni-
yersity; and afterw,rd minister Ut the gos>
mel. Blu, in what part Of England, or in what
wear he was born; where he was settled IN the
ministry, and what were the circumstances OF
his lite, before leaving his native land, are mat
tiers as vet unknown 10 US. We are not with
out hopes, tina, in answer TO inquiries address
ed'to the institution in England, where our foun-
der was educated, we may yet derive some In"
formation on these interesting points.
The scsnty notices, which our early histories
contain of him, lead US to suppose that he
brourh, to this country the disease, which soon
proved fatal 20 him. He engaged, however, in
the duties Of his profession, and was employed
as a preac her in the church In this place. But
his usefulness in that calling was destined 10
shor, duration. He died on the 18th OF Sept
of the year following his arrival, corresponding
in the new s,yleto the 26th Sept performing
IN his las, act work of liberalIty, destined, we
t,u,t TO stand while America shall endure, aud
with usefulness as wide as It's limits.
By his last will, he bequeathed to the colony
for the endowment Of the school at Newton,
one moie,y Of his estate, amounting 10 sum
little short oil eight hundred POUNDS d bequest
which, even in the present prosperous stale OF
kot nrNnw raj and 10 1,tr
in its condition at that period may truly be CAL
led munihcent.
This coma lion gave an instantaneou. impulse
N the proiected establishment. IL was deter.
mined, 5y The court, TO erect the school into
college. In flal commemoration OF the place,
where several of our fathers had been educ ated,
the name of Newton was charged TO that OF
Cambridge; and the college itself was called oy
tina, of Harvard.
And thus did our worthy founder become
the instrument, in the hand Of Providence, OF
effec,ing the design, which the pious leaders OF
the colony had most al heart. Such he was
felt TO be by his contemporaries. In letter
written by some of them, in 1912, they say
"Afier God had carried us safe to New Eng
land, and wee had builded our houses, provId.
ed accessories FOE our livelihood, reared con>
yenieut places for Gods worship, and settled
wee longed for and looked after, was TO advance
learning aud perpeIua,e it 10 posterity, dread
ing to leave N illilerae ministry 10 the church.
es, when our presen, ministers should lie In The
dust. And as We were thinking and consulting
how to effect this great work, it pleased God
TO stir up the heart of one Mr.. Harvard "a god
,ly gentleman and lover of!earning then living
amongst u.s. TO give the one hall of mis- estate,
towards the erecting of college, and all his liz
brary."s
The college instantly went into operation,
on The footing OF the ancient institutions Of Eu-
rope; and in 1912 four years only after the de-
CEASE of Harvard, sent forth its 6rst class of
graduates into the community, men who rose
70 smiuence in the ministry Of the gospel, in
professional lite, and IN The public service, both
n home and abroad. One of the first class graz
duated at Cambridge was sent, both by Crom
Vel ..d Caarh, Il. as minister to the States
Genera, of Holland. One became a fellow Of q