New-York tribune., 1907-11-26
Literary .Nesys and Cr;15c;cr,

-'ODSII t1drVard belonged to the more lib-
eral type Of Purttan:-hs viii is not Puritan
icaliy pnrased; his children were not grotesquely
named out Of the Old Testament.
UndoubtedIv then, the presurnption is in favour
OF John Harvard being Puritan with reservations
him fr in fact as would not restrict
tb bnea1fe, or from cultvating the acquaintance OF
AS Vestryman of ST Saviour's he was sure
10 know some of the Bankside players; docu-
ments show him to have been associated with
Hensiowe. the theatrical broker and owner of
The Rose. In an important bit Of church b,,s,
ness That fact practically makes il certain
mat Robert Harvard was Intimately acquainted
win all the leading spirits at the Globe Theatre
ShakeSpeare of course included" Mr. Shelley's
pracucai certainties have relish all their own
IN leoS Robert Harvard had been left Wild
over On April 6. 1906:
home 0T5q4 6q Tb@Ty bPaTty set out from that picturesque
Sldsd Slrstfprd and at the altar of Holy Trinity Church
Fiose beside the spot where eleven years later to
Shakegpeare be laid to rest Ro5eTt rIsrvard
dd anu dh4t9erire Rogers took one another for hus-
Data are brought forward TO show that in all
probability the Shakespeare and Rogers families
were ihtlmate. DID they not both belong to the
'adesrnan class Of Stratford, attend the same
church. send children to the same school? Why
tai in keeping the families In close ties of
friendship? william Shakespeare occasionally
came Up from London to visit his home Why
shouId II not have occurred to him that Kath-
crime Rogers (whose charms proved by the
fact that later life her thrice a widov)
would make good wife for his friend, Robert
Harvard. butcher of Southwark. who for some
two weary years now had been wifeless2 And
If immortal Shakespeare were to undertake
rg,.4s0 En-
hundred mile journey to seek out the famous
Katherine? Who, indeed?
At all events. fourteen months later, this
entry appeared in the baptismal records of ST.
Saviour's 1907 November ! % John Harvye
S, Of Rob't a Butcher T."
On an equally meagre substratum OF verih-
able facts is developed later the account Of
John Harvard's grammar school education, his
life and friends and course Of theological study
at Emmanuel his wooing of Anne Sadler Gwo
sample Puritan Iove-letters of the period give
a sufficient notion of what his may very
probably have been), of the Inducements that
brought him TO the New World, and Of his per-
sistent and ultimately successful endeavor to
have a college founded in ''Newtown." BY his
death. which occurred on September IA 1888,
fourteen months only after his arrival, the new
project received legacy of seven or eight hum
dred pounds. Within two years Of that time
the Colonial records contain this: TT is ordered
that the college agreed upon formerly to be
built at Cambridge Ghe OF the township
had already been changed shall be called Har-
ward College"
Ore wishes that the ascertained facts Of Har-
wards scholarly and apparently somewhat reti-
cent life might be gathered UP and put together
with much industry in the present vol
ume, but with less license. Those who are
likely to be most interested in the subject are
graduates Of the university that bears the name
of its first donor; 1t is. however, to be feared
that whatever of scholarly training they have
received at the hands Of their Alma Mater will
have untitled them TO derive much satisfaction
from the volume under consideration, jealous
have been the abors OF its author.