New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-16
HARVARD HOUSE.
The american Ambassad0r's address
at Its Opening, IN Stratford. Oct.6

Ot ACS " pC HtHSJ tb DtlUt 4 OfOJ OCts D.
The occasion you are honorins with your urss.
ence is, in a way, International To-day the od.
est University IN America, and. without being
1nV1dlOUS, 1 may surely say of the best a.
ters at home upon new era on the same dav
through the generosity of Mr. Edward Morris
of Chicago, and through the friendly and assidu.
Gus intervention OF one of your best known rs5.
dents Miss Marie Corelh, it is enabled to slsr
into the possession here OF the home which aa-
tered the Mother of it's founder.
Thus, at the same time at which Harvard i,
gaming a new President. il gains not merely
the one new tie with England, aptly suggested
just now, but two. The one. of course is this
fine old Elzabethan survival, so wonderfully
preserved, 50 reveTently restored, so apprODri.
ately furnished, and with its interesting double
HISTORICAL relation, on the one hand 70 the be-
g1nnings of liberal education in America and
on the other, to Shakespeare's Stratford the
chleI Shrine OF our common literature The SEC
Ond tie 1t gains with England is also notable
ana more recent Harvard gains to-day
President who has done some such service %
England as your accomplished Ambassador in
washington has done for America He has
understood it. and helped make his countrymsa
understand it-and in the case of two such ua-
tons no man can render either of them a better
service He has seen and shown that human
rights were not really invented in America IN
1Il6, any more than representative Government
and the Common Law; that. in fact the old IN
HAPPY contention sprang out of the demand By
the COlOniStS for English rights: that both an
now distinctly and conspicuOusly free coUatzss
lIldI under dlIierent forms both enjoy SU1stl-
italy the same rights and the same prOtectm
Tor life. liberty. property and the pursuit q
happiness The outcome of this must be real
1zatiOn that, whether wish it not in ths
larger sense, our two countries cannot escaps
their racial relation as one family still; and
cannot escape the solemnizing but inspiring
Iact that IN their constant and common dew
ton to the historic ideals and aspirations Of
their lies the best hope for civilization and
the peace Of mankind
Long may these two peoples continue to give
the world the oldest and finest example, the
largest scale history has ever recorded. Of Or
dered liberty, and Of that most precious feature
OF its development, freedom Of individual ini-
tiative. so wide that 1t has limit whatever
until 1t touches the equal rights of others.
But our business to-day is primarily with
John Harvard Prior 10 the investigations
undertaken, about 1883, for a Boston Society By
Mr.. Henry F. Waters. and subsequently pub
lished in the Harvard Graduates Magazine,
our knowledge as to the family and ancestry Of
Harvard was even more limited and vague than
that about Shakespeare himself Now. the man
facts as TO his parentage and as 10 TINS mouse
which Harvard University is receiving seem es-
tablished and must be already familiar TO YOU
1t was built in 1896 by Thomas Rogers Here
he lived with his family. In April. 10OO' Us
daughter Katharine went out from this door y
marry Robert Harvard at the Collegiate Church
of the Holy Trinity at Straford-up0n-AVoL
The entry in the marriage register Is ROoerpS
HarwOOd to Katherine Rogers and, rennenoel-
ing the awkward Latinizing and the eccentIS
variations in photography at that period ~
encouraged by the high authority or so en-.
nent and cautious a Shakespearian scholar =
DR.. Sidney Lee in thinking that this may De y
lied on to establish the fact that the marIi-s
O6eHarVaFd'S Mother occurred IN her naCNe lo,-
and at that church. They soon went TO Hven
the parish of ST. SaviOur's Southwark WnslsS
some two years later. her son. John HarvAs|I
born. Her father continued TO live here -
his death. in 1910 The association Of HarVaras
family with the house thus lasted rour1S5--
years. and his Mothers Uncle lived here ne s.py
thirty years more. His mother herself Is O-]
known to have lived in the house nine ye@Ls
just nine times long as her son lived n 80 80
bridge. Mass to the founding of whose Cnivsss
l0fr in int l1T7cr
"the mOiety of his fortune - -.
In the days of her residence here ShakeSpsaais
was at the height of his activity, II NOT oi IA
fame Her father and Shakespeare IaInei r-,s-
been fellow Aldermen of Strattord- hSI .S
band and Shakespeare were fellow parslsOes
of st. SaviOur's. Her son. Jonn HdrvaL" TAI
baptized in st SaviOur's in November. "a
and a month later Shakespeare'S hrothsL -
mund was buried in 81. Saviour $ w hetnS. "a.
families had other connection or what er, esa
ity there was of acquaintance between t''0iN
only be left to conjecture. Va
One thing however. is not COn1ectura| .,.-4
know that from this little town OF StrauO,
there started about that time two stredssN ,Ss
influence that have profoundly auectSeSTis
world. One bore with II the begtnninS OI IIs -v.
education in America; the other the ulost ~ he
sided and farreaChing literary otSprinS u
race. IL not also Of the ages ..,1 an.
As there are. according 20 the muhlC'Fo 80 10
thOrities more American visitors every -" ,bs
those supreme attractions OF Strattord. IN
Birthplace and the Tomb than ViSltpIs 49, ths
other natiOnaHties combined ~ IS rlsilt - -. IA
larger branch OF Jne E-fEtlS-l ShV-.l~--,7 .r,ri1
which Shakespeare is n Joint inheritance s-s's
have a special rendezvous in Shakests -t,ng
town. So also il is right and pecuiisLS ~ re
that Harvard should own here the hoiii' y
founders Mother. under
I have mentioned the circumstances W SAv -
which Il has been enabled 70 do SO ~ tt,, cf
mains for me % say that the CoEpoi t,or ~
Harvard University have done ne nc ~ NIB
requesting me 10 act IN their behali ~ :, uy
lie reception Of this piOus gift nolSs 5 their
hands and with your permission VIII i0-
resolution: a
At a meeting Of the President an6 F{ysS9
Harvard College In Cambridge June 1850 y, IN. An.
Voted that His ENccllencv the AlneIi' Ilarvari
bassador az London be invited 20 4pS[. srenlonies
House 70 It's public uses with Suen
may be suitable and convenient
A rue copy Of record - .r,r-vrWTI.
Attest. HOWARD L. BIN, ,Nv,tr,TeF
Standing then. in the home Of ha .t Ifn-
Mother. and by the authority of EtaIy"I Ven as
Versity declare this house henceroftH1 ISaTr,rsri
a free resort for all visiting sons OF ,-isllins
and as a general rendezvous Tor %l r,1rroSs
Americans. May II serve that tWoloN, Asoaors
as long as our race prizes letters anu
Shakespeare!