. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . laced there in 1828 at the suggestion ofHon. Edward Everett. On the monument are thesewords: On the 26th day of September, 1828,this stone was erected by the Graduates of the Uni-versity at Cambridge, in honor of its Founder,who died at Charlestown, on the 26th day of Sep-tember, 1638. founding, the entire company rose to dohonour to the following toast:— The sacred memory of John Harvard, whoset the first example, on the American con-tinent, of a union between private muni-ficence and public education, which hasbound suc
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . laced there in 1828 at the suggestion ofHon. Edward Everett. On the monument are thesewords: On the 26th day of September, 1828,this stone was erected by the Graduates of the Uni-versity at Cambridge, in honor of its Founder,who died at Charlestown, on the 26th day of Sep-tember, 1638. founding, the entire company rose to dohonour to the following toast:— The sacred memory of John Harvard, whoset the first example, on the American con-tinent, of a union between private muni-ficence and public education, which hasbound successive generations, as with linksof steel, together, and has given to anunknown stranger a deathless name. Another event of interest connecting HarvardCollege with her founder occurred in 1884 atthe tercentenary celebration of Emmanuel Col-lege, Cambridge, at which time a window to hismemory was placed in the college chapel, the giftof Harvard men. There were present at thisanniversary Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of Har- 78 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS I. tf h. From fin iitd prinl in n,irvard CoUese Library, Ihnvanl Vniversily Kindness William C. Lane, and Waller B. Brijjs, Esq, CHURCH AND PRIORY OF STE. MARIE OVERIE (NOW ST. SAVIOURS),SOUTHWARK, LONDON, showing London Bridge. In this church John Harvard was baptized in 1607, and here his father wasburied in 1625. Harvard Chapel, given by Harvard graduates, is in this church. Here is also a monumentto William Emerson, an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson. vard University, sent over by Harvard especially for this occasion, and Hon. JamesRussell Lowell, who was at that time American Minister at the Court of That same year there was erected on the Delta in the grounds of HarvardUniversity the well-known memorial statue of John Harvard presented by SamuelJ. Bridge, an alumnus of the University. Two years later, in 1886, at the cele-bration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the College,the co
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