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 October 15, 1884. 
 
 WITH AN ADDRESS 
 By GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE: 
 
 JOHN WILSON AND SON. 
 
 Santottsitg |)rres. 
 
 1884.
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIC 
 
 SANTA BARBARA 
 
 THE HARVARD MEMORIAL. 
 
 A T the dinner of the Alumni of Harvard Univer- 
 sity on Commencement Day, June 27, 1883, Mr. 
 Joseph H. Choate, who presided, read the following 
 letter : 
 
 To the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 
 
 Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of offering you an ideal 
 statue in bronze, representing your founder, the Rev. John Har- 
 vard, to be designed by Daniel C. French of Concord, and to be 
 placed in the south end of the enclosure in which Memorial Hall 
 stands. If you do me the honor to accept this offer, I propose to 
 contract at once for the work, including an appropriate pedestal ; 
 and I am assured that the same can be in place by June 1, 1884. 
 
 I am, with much respect, 
 
 Samuel J. Bridge. 
 
 Mr. Choate had referred to the giver as " a pious 
 worshipper at Harvard's shrine, turning his face to- 
 wards Mecca ; " and, when the letter was read, the 
 applause of the company compelled Mr. Bridge to 
 make a silent acknowledgment. Later in the dinner, 
 Dr. Ellis, referring to the subject, said, 
 
 " It is delightful for me to have heard for the first time this day 
 that one of my boys [turning to Mr. Bridge], a member of that 
 Harvard Society in Charlestown [to which Dr. Ellis had referred, 
 and of which he had been the minister], is to give the college a
 
 statue. It must be an ideal one ; but our ideals, we are told, are 
 always perfection, and, if there ever ought to be a perfect exposition 
 of a good and lovable man, it must be that of John Harvard." 
 
 There were some necessary delays in the progress 
 of the work; but the statue was in place in season 
 for the ceremonies of unveiling, which was fixed for 
 Oct. 15, 1884. 
 
 At three o'clock in the afternoon of that day there 
 was a gathering in Sanders Theatre. Charles Wil- 
 liam Eliot, the President of the University, with 
 Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, the chairman of the 
 Board of Overseers, and other officers, were seated 
 on the platform, and with them were Mr. Bridge and 
 Mr. French, and those who were to take part in the 
 services. The main floor, and other seats on the 
 platform, were occupied by the undergraduates and 
 graduates. The first gallery held the invited guests, 
 while the second gallery was thrown open to the 
 public. 
 
 After the Harvard Glee Club had sung, the Rev. 
 Edward E. Hale, D.D., led the audience in prayer, 
 and then all joined in the Lord's Prayer. The Rev. 
 George E. Ellis, D.D., LL.D., then delivered the 
 principal address.
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY THE REV. DR. ELLIS. 
 
 Mr. President, Officers, Students, and Alumni of Harvard 
 College : 
 
 * I ^HE first words for this occasion are those of grateful rec- 
 ognition of the generosity which to-day presents to the 
 college a personal memorial of its revered founder. The giver 
 of this statue is present here ; but his modesty is the substi- 
 tute for his speech. It is by his desire, as well as by official 
 invitation, that I speak for him. It may well be so, as our ac- 
 quaintance and friendship date back more than forty years, 
 in his membership of the Harvard Church Society in Charles- 
 town. He has been a wide wanderer, a traveller in all lands, 
 having more than once circled the globe. As a confidential 
 agent of our government for many years on the Pacific coast, 
 he faithfully discharged high trusts. He has liberally en- 
 dowed many aids to education, and fostered many young 
 men in their school and college course. Holding in venerat- 
 ing regard his descent from one of the first English settlers in 
 this place, he has caused a representative statue of him, as a 
 Pilgrim, to be planted near by us, on the Common, a gift to 
 the city. And now he has done a similar loving service to 
 the college. The two statues commemorate two worthies of 
 our earliest years, who doubtless met on this virgin soil, and 
 who, we can imagine, may now exchange from their metal 
 enshroudings some grave recognitions.
 
 The oldest extant document which in type clearly 
 recognizes the existence of Harvard College is a precious 
 pamphlet with this title, "New England's First-Fruits in 
 respect to the Progress of Learning in the College at Cam- 
 bridge, in Massachusetts Bay," etc. It is a letter dated 
 " Boston, Sept. 26, 1642." It was published in London in 
 1643, the year following the graduation of our first class of nine 
 members. The letter gives a graphic and vigorous account of 
 the first Commencement. This subject has the chief place 
 in the pamphlet, the larger remainder being devoted to a most 
 cheerful and hopeful account of the experience and prospects 
 of the band of English exiles amid the stumps of their clear- 
 ing in the primeval wilderness. 
 
 The writer says, that as soon as they had builded their 
 houses, and provided for necessary food, for God's worship, 
 and for civil government, "the next thing we longed for 
 and looked after was to advance learning and to perpetuate 
 it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the 
 churches, when our present ministers shall 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 godly gentleman and a lover of learning, then 
 living amongst us) to give the one-half of his estate (it being 
 in all about .1,700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and 
 all his library. After him, another gave .300; others after 
 them cast in more ; and the public hand of the State added 
 the rest. The Colledge was by common consent appointed to 
 be at Cambridge (a place very pleasant and accommodate), 
 and is called (according to the name of the first founder) 
 Harvard College." Then follows an account of an edifice, 
 " very fair and comely within and without," with its spacious 
 hall, for daily commons, lectures, and exercises, chambers, 
 studies, etc., for students, a large library " with some books 
 to it, the gifts of divers of our friends," and close by a 
 grammar-school, under Master Corlet, "for preparing young
 
 scholars for Academical learning." The subjects of study, 
 disputation, and declamation, are such as would try the wits, 
 not only of the class just entered here, but of the matured 
 seniors, who are already looking onward to the glories of 
 class day through the grim perspective of the grind for the 
 final examination. 
 
 From that frank, and, so far as I can learn, never chal- 
 lenged account of 1642, it would appear that John Harvard, 
 and not the Colony treasury, gave birth and being to this 
 venerable seat of learning. In will and purpose, however, 
 if not in deed, the Colony had the start. In the General 
 Court, under date Oct. 28, 1636, it was " agreed to give X400 
 towards a schoale or colledge," X200 the next year, and 
 .200 when the work was finished ; the next Court to designate 
 the place, and to provide for the building. On Nov. 15, 1637, 
 the Court ordered that the college should be at the New 
 Towne, up Charles River, and a few days later a committee of 
 twelve of the most honored among them was appointed to take 
 order for it. In May, 1638, the name Cambridge was substi- 
 tuted for New Towne. On the 13th of March, 1639, N.S., 
 after Harvard's death, it was ordered "that the colledge agreed 
 upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Har- 
 vard Colledge." That name rightfully assigns an enviable 
 and deserved honor to John Harvard. 
 
 And who was John Harvard ? Would that we could answer, 
 if only in such information as is generally given on the grave- 
 stones of the worthy and the honored ! His lineage and par- 
 entage, his birthplace and birthday, the dates of his leaving 
 the Old World and of his arrival in the New, are to this time 
 unknown to us. An earnest investigator has within this year 
 come upon a clew which promises to relieve the mystery of 
 his personal history. The few facts assured to us on record 
 concerning him are the following. 
 
 Some of us have seen on the register of Emmanuel Col- 
 lege, at the English Cambridge, his signature for his bache-
 
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 lor's degree in 163 1, and that for his master's degree in 1635. 
 His rank as "pensioner" indicates independent circumstances, 
 as, indeed, does the largeness of his gifts to the college, which 
 would now represent a value of nearly thirty thousand dollars. 
 He is described as of " Middlesex." His contemporaries here 
 gave him the title of reverend, and he is called "sometimes 
 minister of God's word." Whether he had received ordina- 
 tion in England by a bishop, or by his Puritan brethren, we 
 do not know, as, indeed, we know nothing concerning him, 
 from his receiving his second degree till his admission as 
 an inhabitant of Charlestown in this Colony, Aug. 1, 1637. 
 With Ann, his wife, he became a member of the church, 
 which gave him the full rights of citizenship, Nov. 1, 1637. 
 He received grants of land from the town, and was a member 
 of a committee on "providing some laws." He had built a 
 comfortable dwelling, the site of which is known in Charles- 
 town. It was occupied by the minister of the town after 
 his death. Chief Justice Sewall tells us of his enjoying its 
 hospitality on the night of Jan. 26, in 1697, and of the pious 
 and grateful memory of John Harvard, which came to him in 
 his chamber. " Jan'y 26, 1697, I lodged at Charlestown, at 
 Mrs. Shepards, who tells me Mr. Harvard built that house. 
 I lay in the chamber next the street. As I lay awake past 
 midnight, in my Meditation, I was affected to consider how 
 long agoe God had made provision for my comfortable Lodg- 
 ing that night ; seeing that was Mr. Harvards house. And 
 that led me to think of Heaven, the House not made with 
 hands, which God for many Thousands of years has been 
 storing with the richest furniture (saints that are from time 
 to time placed there), and that I had some hopes of being 
 entertain'd in that Magnificent, Convenient Palace, every 
 way fitted and furnished. These thoughts were very re- 
 freshing to me." If the dwelling was still standing, it was 
 burned in the conflagration of Charlestown, in the battle of 
 June 17.
 
 We have seen that the project of a college was in earnest 
 debate at the date of Harvard's appearance in the country. 
 It engrossed the anxiety of those, who, as we shall find, were 
 his nearest associates. He saw the straits of these exiled 
 lovers of good learning. Everything was then to be done 
 with scant means for doing it. We can realize the extreme 
 destitution of the college then ; for all its presidents, includ- 
 ing its now honored yet still supplicant head, assure us that its 
 destitution has never been surmounted. The young scholar 
 and minister hardly could he have been of thirty years of 
 age felt upon him the touch of mortal disease. He thought 
 of the property, considerable for those days, which he had 
 left in England. By a nuncupative will preceding his death 
 (Sept. 24, 1638, N.S.) he bequeathed the half of his estate to 
 the college. No probate or administration on his will appears 
 as having been made here. The college records appear to rec- 
 ognize the receipt of only half the amount of his bequest. 
 The brooding troubles of the civil war in England may have 
 hindered or impaired its transmission. We know him to have 
 been beloved and honored, a well trained and accomplished 
 scholar of the type then esteemed. There is a tender rever- 
 ence in every early mention of him. It may be said of him, 
 in the words of Cotton Mather of another, that "he left his 
 old English home, and took New England on his way to 
 heaven." 
 
 His whole library went with his bequest to the college. 
 The list is on the college records of 302 volumes. They 
 certify to his scholarly qualities, classical, philosophical, and 
 theological, and to his earnest Puritanism. This solid vol- 
 ume which I hold in my hand is the only one then in 
 some private use that escaped the conflagration on Jan. 24, 
 1764, which destroyed the college library edifice and all its 
 contents, when the General Court occupied it, driven from 
 Boston by the small-pox. This disaster caused an irreparable 
 loss to the college. Harvard Hall was then the last remain-
 
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 ing of the old or earlier buildings. It was erected in 1672. 
 The night was one of a cold winter's tempest of wind and 
 snow. It being vacation, the students absent, only three per- 
 sons were lodged in the buildings, all of which Massachu- 
 setts, (the former) Stoughton, and Hollis Halls, the latter just 
 completed, and Holden Chapel were in danger, and actu- 
 ally kindled. The edifice contained all the relics and treas- 
 ured gatherings of the college for more than sixscore years 
 after its foundation. Besides the library of Harvard, the 
 whole libraries of Drs. Lightfoot and Theophilus Gale, 
 bequeathed or given to the college, rich in Hebrew, patristic, 
 and classic lore, donations of learned societies and corpora- 
 tions, gifts of many generous private benefactors abroad and 
 at home, medical preparations, and a font of Greek type, etc., 
 perished in the conflagration. There were about five thou- 
 sand volumes. Valuable philosophical apparatus, of the high- 
 est quality of the time, and rich in variety, portraits of eminent 
 men and benefactors, college records, and much miscellaneous 
 matter, were included in the ruin. 
 
 By this volume alone we stretch a hand across the cen- 
 turies, and hold a single relic of Harvard. 
 
 The founder of this college was an English Puritan min- 
 ister. That fact is a fragment of an historical truth of large 
 import. The distinctive character and qualities of the New 
 England Colonies impressed and effective from the earliest 
 days, entailed and expanding and radiating over our whole 
 country to this day of its extent and grandeur are to be 
 referred to that truth, which may be thus simply stated. A 
 hundred scholars from Cambridge and Oxford Universities 
 were concerned in the first planting of our wilderness settle- 
 ments, with their churches, schools, colleges, and printing- 
 presses, during a period in which there was to be found 
 scarcely a single college-bred man in all the other English 
 Colonies here. More than thirty years after the first class 
 were pursuing their studies in this college, Sir William Berke-
 
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 ley, the governor of Virginia, wrote to the commissioners of 
 foreign plantations in London : " I thank God there are no 
 free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these 
 hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience into 
 the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against 
 the best governments. God keep us from both ! " This was 
 seven years after the Bible, translated into the language of 
 the natives, had been printed and published here. These 
 statements sum up the whole explanation of the pre-eminence 
 of New England in thrift, learning, science, and influence. 
 Seventy of the hundred of those exiled scholars were from 
 Cambridge, then a special Puritan stronghold. A score of 
 them, contemporaries and associates of John Harvard, were 
 from Emmanuel, Puritan even from its foundation, furnishing 
 our own college with its first two presidents. Harvard, during 
 some of his terms, might have shared the intimacy of John 
 , Milton. These exiled scholars were the peers of those they 
 left behind in erudition, in strength and graces of character. 
 They brought with them their books, and the talent to make 
 more books. They changed their atmosphere and surround- 
 ings, but not their spirits nor their minds. They had had 
 the sharp discipline of angry ecclesiastical and polemical con- 
 troversy, with the arguments of infliction, fines, and prisons 
 on the side against them. Their mastering aim was, that in 
 the transition process then in progress, of the reformation, 
 restoration, and reconstruction of their beloved English 
 Church, all that had been incorporated into its doctrine, 
 discipline, ceremonial, and ritual, from repudiated Rome, 
 should, in root and branch, be renounced, for the return 
 to the simple, scriptural, apostolic model. They found no 
 warrant or use for "lords bishops." Nor was a single one 
 such dignitary allowed in the country during the more than 
 a century and a half before the Colonies won their independ- 
 ence ; and those baronial prelates have since found no place 
 here. They attended their flocks into the wildernesses of
 
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 hill and valley, and held over them a godly discipline, guard- 
 ing purity in their households, and industry in the fields, and 
 preaching strong doctrine in their pulpits. They sought out 
 the most promising young men in their parishes, guided their 
 studies, and sent them here for the best education the time 
 would furnish. They brought with them the aches and scars 
 and bruises of their conflict. They were intolerant as all 
 men the world over, in all time, have ever been and always 
 will be, when they are in solemn earnest for truth or error. 
 Austere, rigid, narrow, in many things unlovely, they really 
 were ; and this was simply because they put themselves under 
 the same severities which they imposed on others. The 
 very noblest thing about them was that teasing restlessness 
 of spirit, that quickening energy of progressive thinking, 
 which compelled them to outgrow their own limitations ; so 
 that they have relieved us from having such as our contempo- 
 raries, and stand to us only as most worthy ancestors. They 
 have left us the most enviable heritage on the earth. 
 
 To provide a succession of ministers for the multiplying 
 churches was the chief intent of this college. Ministers were 
 the chief necessity of our early years. They may be as much 
 needed now as then ; but they do not appear to be so much 
 wanted. A curious epoch of transition was soon marked 
 here, of the need of college-bred men for other ranges of 
 service. We find a series of graduates, who in their studies 
 had the ministry in view, and who entered upon the prepa- 
 ration for, or even the trial of, the work, but turned aside to 
 high places of magistracy. Of such were Governors Joseph 
 Dudley, William Stoughton, Gurdon Saltonstall, and Chief 
 Justice Sewall, all contemporaries. But the type of New 
 England Puritan ministers did not continue to satisfy all con- 
 sciences. A few English Churchmen, clerical and lay, there 
 were, who believed that the ministry of the Christian re- 
 ligion did not depend alone upon the truth and power of its 
 doctrine, but to be valid required also a certain official virtue
 
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 communicated in the succession of those who held, and who 
 only could impart it. So, just a century ago, our independ- 
 ence having been established, qualified men were sent to 
 England and Scotland to secure the desired gift. The gospel 
 itself was never heralded with warmer joy in the darkest of 
 Pagan regions than marked, for some among us, the return 
 from Scotland, after his consecration, of that excellent and 
 devoted man who signed himself " Samuel, Bishop of Con- 
 necticut," which he was not. Of course, this movement 
 caused pain and ill-feeling to those trained in the New Eng- 
 land churches, upon whose Christian standing it cast a slight. 
 However, it brought under the light the shining fact that in 
 no quarter, and in no age of Christendom, had more pious 
 and devoted labors been spent by holy and faithful men for 
 the Christian religion, than those which had been conse- 
 crated here in patient toil, in lifelong zeal and love, for a 
 hundred and fifty years. What would New England have 
 been without them ? What has it been with them and 
 through them ? Let the chief grace of the gospel, charity, 
 estimate their purpose and work, and cover their error, if 
 they were unwittingly intruders and interlopers on a field 
 forbidden to them. 
 
 It would be a most grateful theme for an able pen to set 
 forth the services of Harvard's ministers in their frugal coun- 
 try parsonages. Their own sons alone, after a training here, 
 furnish a signal and shining list of the wise and good, the 
 honored and generous men in this community who came from 
 those rural ministerial homes. Of such were Chief Justice 
 Shaw and Dr. Jacob Bigelow, the illustrious heads of their 
 respective professions. And what a constellation of the 
 scions, sons and grandsons, of our ministerial stock, have we 
 in the men of letters, who have produced such a considerable 
 portion of our national literature, Bancroft and Everett, 
 Emerson and Hedge, Motley and Parkman, Holmes and 
 Lowell !
 
 The books in Harvard's library warrant the belief that he 
 would have welcomed the largest expanding of the field of 
 good learning and fine culture. There is a discernible differ- 
 ence between the tone and spirit of the first-comers here, and 
 those of their children of the first and second generations, born 
 in the wilderness, who had no milk when they were babes, and 
 no memory of the ivy growths, the sports and fond associations, 
 of Old England. Those first-comers here brought with them 
 fond remembrances. So the young Harvard was not alone, 
 companionless, friendless, when he came here. It may have 
 been that more of those with whom he had heart-intimacies 
 were then on this side of the ocean than on the other. It was 
 but the renewal for him of his college friendships, cemented 
 by a deep, strong affinity of spirit. John Cotton of Boston, 
 and Thomas Hooker of Cambridge, the first ministers of those 
 towns, had been fellows and teachers at Emmanuel. Symmes, 
 the minister of Charlestown, whom Harvard aided as his 
 strength permitted, and who may have witnessed the closing 
 of his young and pure life, was of the same college. Many, 
 many others, also, held him in their hearts. Would that they 
 had told us more of him through their pens ! 
 
 Reverence, love, gratitude, and honor have combined to 
 enlist genius in their service, that there may be a personal 
 memorial of Harvard on these grounds, which his living feet, 
 doubtless, often trod. There is not known to be extant a por- 
 trait or any delineation or description of his personality, his 
 form or features. Is not the prompting, however, fair and 
 allowable, that there should be some artistic memorial of him 
 on these grounds ? 
 
 Let it be distinctly and frankly avowed, for record on this 
 precise day of the unveiling of a statue as a simulacrum of 
 John Harvard, so that only wilful error, or a fond, mythical 
 invention can ever mislead or falsify a generous and grateful 
 prompting, that this exquisite moulding in bronze serves a 
 purpose for the eye, the thought, and sentiment, through the
 
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 ideal, in lack of the real. We have enlisted one of the noblest 
 of the arts to embody a conception of what Harvard might 
 have been in body and lineament, from what we know that he 
 was in mind and in soul. It is by no means without allowed 
 and approved precedent, that, in the lack of authentic por- 
 traitures of such as are to be commemorated, an ideal repre- 
 sentation supplies the vacancy of a reality. It is one of the 
 fair issues between poetry and prose. The wise, the honored, 
 the fair, the noble, and the saintly, are never grudged some 
 finer touches of the artist in tint or feature, which etherealize 
 their beauty, or magnify their elevation, as expressed in the 
 actual body, the eye, the brow, the lip, the moulding of the 
 mortal clay. To flatter is not always to falsify. The Latin 
 simiilacnim and the Greek EiScdXov alike divide their signifi- 
 cance between a faithful presentation of a real or a conceived 
 likeness, and the creation of an unsubstantial form. It is but 
 a following of the principle of adjustment in equity, in the 
 redirection of antiquated trusts, by approximating to the truth 
 and the right. To say nothing of the classic paintings and 
 sculptures of deities, muses, and graces, that never had a fleshly 
 embodiment, nor even of the mediaeval saints and worthies, 
 the halls and galleries of continental Europe, and the corri- 
 dors of St. Stephen's, Westminster, have freely exercised the 
 imagination of artists who had no certified originals to follow. 
 Were all the busts of philosophers, poets, and Caesars, in the 
 museums of Rome, Florence, and Naples, portraitures from 
 life ? And even when veritable representations of the great 
 and honored dead have been in the hands of the artists, aided 
 by living memories, we need not go beyond the neighboring 
 city to be satisfied that art may fail in skill and truth in 
 dealing with contemporaries as with the long-vanished dead. 
 The late Wendell Phillips did his best to warn posterity 
 against being beguiled by our Boston statues. If the two 
 foremost worthies of our earliest age could come forth to con- 
 template their own statues, would not the honored Governor
 
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 Winthrop be more likely to refuse to enshrine himself in that 
 mass of metal in Scollay Square, though his own living por- 
 trait was put to service in it, than would our reverend founder 
 to express himself in this fair counterfeit of him ? 
 
 And if the contingency which has been imagined should 
 present itself, of the coming to the light of some authentic 
 portraiture of John Harvard, the pledge may here and now be 
 ventured, that some generous friend, such as, to the end of 
 time, shall never fail our Alma Mater, notwithstanding her 
 chronic poverty, will provide that this bronze shall be liquefied 
 again, and made to tell the whole known truth so as by fire. 
 
 Let us remember that the ideal can never transcend the 
 real, though many light sayings assert the contrary. The 
 gifted artist has wrought for us here an engaging and a beau- 
 tiful object. Alone, in his workroom through the dull days 
 of a whole winter, he was moulding the moistened clay in 
 patient study, imitating the creative work by which man was 
 fashioned out of the dust of the ground. And, so far as 
 man's highest gifts can complete the process, he has breathed 
 into it a living soul. It holds the eye and thought gazing 
 upon it in form, lineament, and feature. It shows us a young 
 scholar in the academic costume and garb of his time, with the 
 refinement and gravity of pure high-thinking. Gently touched 
 by the weakness which was wasting his immature life, he 
 rests for a moment from his converse with wisdom on the 
 printed page, and raises his contemplative eye to the spaces 
 of all wisdom. The seal of his English college is on the left 
 of the pedestal, and that which was so felicitously seized upon 
 for the college to which he transferred learning from the Old 
 World to the New, is on the right. Let this memorial be 
 richly garlanded with summer flowers on your high class 
 days ! Let the pensive beauty of that sweet countenance 
 be cheer and inspiration to the student passing by it, under 
 fair, or clouded, or stormy skies, or by the illumination of the 
 moon !
 
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 Would that those eyes had vision for the spirit, that they 
 might look forth upon these clustering halls, the oldest and 
 the newest, which keep the record and method of enlargement 
 from the old plain solidity to the fresh ornateness of this 
 year's taste ! Would that they could behold the results of the 
 transforming process on the domains of the Indian, the wolf, 
 and the bear, to these crowded groups of young men in the 
 vigor and promise of a most privileged life ! 
 
 These are all before us. The graduates of Harvard now 
 make the most numerous body of any one continued fel- 
 lowship on this continent. And here is the centre of our 
 common debt and love. 
 
 " O Relic and Type of our ancestors' worth, 
 That hast long kept their memory warm, 
 First Flower of their wilderness, Star of their night, 
 Calm rising through change and through storm." 
 
 Singing by the Glee Club followed, when President 
 Eliot arose, and accepted the gift in these words : 
 
 " It is my pleasant duty to declare that the University 
 gratefully accepts the interesting and inspiring memorial of 
 John Harvard which generosity and genius have conspired 
 to produce. The University counts of inestimable worth the 
 lessons which this pure, gentle, resolute youth will teach, as 
 he sits in bronze looking wistfully into the western sky. He 
 will teach that one disinterested deed of hope and faith may 
 crown a brief and broken life with deathless fame. He will 
 teach that the good which men do lives after them, fructified 
 and multiplied beyond all power of measurement or compu- 
 tation. He will teach that from the seed which he planted 
 in loneliness, weakness, and sorrow, have sprung joy, strength, 
 and energy ever fresh, blooming year after year in this gar-
 
 den of learning, and flourishing more and more, as time goes 
 on, in all fields of human activity. Let us go and look upon 
 this silent but impressive teacher." 
 
 As the President spoke his closing words, he led 
 the way, accompanied by Mr. Bridge, and .followed 
 by the entire audience, but without formal order, to 
 the area which had been reserved about the statue. 
 As soon as the crowd had encircled it at a distance 
 which enabled all to see, the signal was given, and the 
 cloth which covered the statue was dropped. 
 
 The undergraduates were massed on one side, and, 
 in response to the call of their leader, they greeted 
 the unveiling with nine of their college cheers. They 
 paid the same tribute to the giver and to the sculptor, 
 and the ceremonies were over. 
 
 On the base of the statue is the name of the 
 
 company by whom the casting was done, The 
 
 Henry- Bonnard Bronze Company, New York, 
 1884. 
 
 On the front of the pedestal, which is of fine-ham- 
 mered granite, is inscribed in gilt letters, 
 
 JOHN HARVARD 
 
 FOUNDER 
 1638
 
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 The seal, in bronze, of Emmanuel College, 1 Cam- 
 bridge, England, is let into the stone on the southern 
 face. Corresponding on the northern face is the seal 
 of Harvard College. On the rear face are the words, 
 
 GIVEN BY 
 
 SAMUEL JAMES BRIDGE 
 
 J^JNE 17, 1883 
 
 1 The three hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Emmanuel 
 College was commemorated with appropriate observances at Cambridge, 
 England, on the 18th and 19th of June, the present year. Abundant 
 honor was then done to its alumnus, John Harvard, as the founder of 
 Harvard University. An invitation had been sent by the authorities of 
 Emmanuel, that Harvard College should be represented on the auspicious 
 occasion. In answer to the request, Professor Charles Eliot Norton was 
 delegated as such representative. He attended, and took a prominent 
 part in the exercises of the commemoration, at which the common inter- 
 ests and mutual regard of the Universities at the two Cambridges were 
 amply recognized and confirmed. 
 
 The Chapel of Emmanuel, where the religious services of the Ter- 
 centenary were held, has been recently repaired and adorned. The eight 
 windows four on either side are filled with the portraits of theolo- 
 gians, two in each, beginning with Augustine and Anselm, and ending 
 with Sancroft and Law. The third and fourth windows on both sides are 
 occupied with portraits of Emmanuel men. In the third window of the 
 north side is John Harvard, of course an ideal representation, with 
 Laurence Chaderton, first Master of Emmanuel, as his companion. 
 Harvard holds a scroll bearing the words, Populus qui crtabitur laudabit 
 Dominum .