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the next year. His nomea clarrtssimuu,, do not

the next year. His nomea carrissimuu,, do not
forget, was Caleb Cheeoauteaumuek.
VI the twenty-five presidents OF Harvard col.
iege, the hrss was John Dunster, OF revered
memory, an earnest, consecrated minister of the
Gospel. He devoted his time most asslduonsly
70 building up the school within and without
oy contributions from other colonies: aud the
rellsious controversies relative to Pedobaptism
10 Whicn he became involved with the powers
oI state have In no way Swallowed MS cherished
memory. At the outset, the requisites for ad-
mission We're rIgidly prescribed, that one must
Do able TO read Tully or such like classics,
ma make and speak true verse and Latin
prose, ana decline the paradigms. or nouns
ana verbs in the Greek tongue" The rules
CURED that students should speak Latin in. all
coliege intercourse, and double penalties were
imposed II excuses were not presented In that
classic tongue. Hungry had to go the student.
II tIis Roman language failed him, for coveted
vlands Tho story is historic that the laugh
went round when a professor, whose room was
lnFa1ed by wandering dog. exclaimed, "Er-
cs4de cdaem 81, et-shut the door!' and one is re-
ninaeq OF Hsines saying that his only hatred
OIL the Romsn race was their invention OF the
Latin grammar
Exercises we're required by candle-light before
breakfast OF transiatng Hebrew scripture into
Ireek, anu al evening twilight il was English
tnat was thus trausmo .riiied The humanites
were thus rlgdly par ued and we are reminded
OF the -cnriar VINO Tegrett q that b s whole lie
hao peen spen upon Greek III general instead or
verbs IN ma; while We are told OF a French poet
VINO regretted that two years and half had
G zen insuihcient Tor the first three
upon as an appropriate language in the
hierarchy that these zealots desired to
establish. We have the authority of the late
poet ard statesman, Lowell, in saying that the
rounding OF Harvard college is second TO no
event In real importance that has happened on
the western continent: that it saved New Eng
lana from being mere geographical express
sion, aud 1t insured our intel lectual indie
pencence of the Old World. Its immediate and
naIural eject was TO create q body of
educated aud earnest men, maintaining high
ideals OF life and its purpose, 1T and Jealous to
be educators of the people. both morally and in
tellcctuaiiy, as school teachers and as ministers
OF the gospel To large degree we may say
that 1t is by this influence New England as
sumed and has maintained It's permanent in
nuence In literature and intelligence from then
Till now. mus we are reminded OF Beecher's
exclamation: "What, shut New England out in
the codl You may as well try to shut the cold
out of New England"
Thus, having briefly told the story of the
founding OF our alma mater, let me glance at a
lew OF the most important events in its subse-
quent history. 1t was IN 1850 that the college
was granted the revenues from the Charles
river Jerry. In revolutionary times the under
graduates voted unanimously 10 take their de-
grees clad only in the manufactures OF their
native land, and after Washington drew his
sword under the Cambridge elm as commander
OF the continental armies, the college authori-
yes and students forsook their buildings to
ma temporary shelter at Concord. while
among the most eminent of the revolutionary
leaders were the graduates from Harvard-such
as the two Adamses. Hancock, Warren and Otis
PRESIDENT Washington visited the college in
1870, while the reception to General Lafayette in
1924, was marked epoch. The two hundredth
celebration OF the college occurred in 1886 W tn
imposing ceremonies. wherein Edward Everett
delivered one OF MS most pleasing orations and
Dr. holmes, OF the famous class of 1879, whose
name awakens thrills of affectionate respect in
ali our hearts, gave poem on that occasion, as
he did also in more elaborate form at the recent
TWO hundred and fftieth celebration in 1885, At
the latter celebration the following three stanzas
from his poem rected fifty years before were
repeated, as the ones remembered by the veneer
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