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Title: John Harvard and his times
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)
Subjects: Harvard, John, 1607-1638 Harvard College (1636-1780) Colonists
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ho went forth fromhere full of the faith which gives steadiness tohigh resolve, rich in the culture which invig-orates as well as refines, and strong in a cour-age which no perils could daunt because itssource was in the Rock of Ages, — men whowent forth to cross the vast and solitary sea,and in the wilderness on its further shore to laythe little stones which were to prove the morethan Cyclopean foundations of an unparal-leled commonwealth, not unworthy to be calledby the great name of New England. Ere the year which had marked the placing ofa window in Emmanuel chapel to the memoryof John Harvard had ended, that suggestivestatue which stands on the Delta in the groundsof Harvard University was unveiled to publicgaze. This memorial was the generous giftof an alumnus of the university, Samuel J.Bridge, whose Charlestown pastor, the Rev.George E. Ellis, D.D., was deputed to deliverthe address at the unveiling ceremony on Oc-tober 15th, 1884. Reverence, love, gratitude, and honour,312
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ATUE OF JOHN HARVARD ON THE DELTA, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.— Pa^e 312. THE PRAISE OF JOHN HARVARD Dr. Ellis remarked in the course of his ad-dress, have combined to enlist genius intheir service, that there may be a personalmemorial of Harvard on these grounds,which his living feet, doubtless, often trod.There is not known to be extant a portraitor any delineation or description of his per-sonality, his form, or features. Is not theprompting, however, fair and allowable, thatthere should be some artistic memorial of himon these grounds ? Let it be distinctly andfrankly avowed, for record on this precise dayof the unveiling of a statue as a simulacrumof John Harvard, — so that only wilful error,or a fond, mythical invention can ever mis-lead or falsify a generous and grateful prompt-ing, — that this exquisite moulding in bronzeserves a purpose for the eye, the thought, andsentiment, through the ideal, in lack of the real.... It shows us a young scholar in the aca-demic costume and gar

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