Harvard and its surroundings . the platform with an ap-plauding welcome from the audience, and Mr. Everett, with his usual felicityand grace, turning to him, said, I wish 1 had authority to say, Expectaturoratio in lingua vernacula a Webster. In this church many choice and brilliant orations and poems have been de-livered from year to year. The first poem heard in it was written and de-livered by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, three years after, gave the orationbefore the * B K Society, when one of his hearers, a graduate of the old school,puzzled by his peculiar style of thought and speech, exclai
Harvard and its surroundings . the platform with an ap-plauding welcome from the audience, and Mr. Everett, with his usual felicityand grace, turning to him, said, I wish 1 had authority to say, Expectaturoratio in lingua vernacula a Webster. In this church many choice and brilliant orations and poems have been de-livered from year to year. The first poem heard in it was written and de-livered by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, three years after, gave the orationbefore the * B K Society, when one of his hearers, a graduate of the old school,puzzled by his peculiar style of thought and speech, exclaimed, Either thisman is crazy or I am. It was in this church that Oliver Wendell Holmes,then a young man of twenty-four, spoke the poem before the * B K which hasseldom had its equal on a similar occasion. Since 1872 the College, being provided with a suitable place for public oc-casions in the Appleton Chapel and Sanders Theatre, has ceased to use theFirst Parish Church, and has formally relinquished all its rights and privi-. First Parish Church (40). AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 71 leges in connection with it. The First Parish, as its name indicates, is themost ancient of tlie Cambridge religious societies, and one of the largest andmost flourishing of the Unitarian churches in Boston and its vicinity. In 1868 the church was thoroughly renovated and the interior remodeled,with additional conveniences for religious and social meetings, as well as forthe Sunday-school, in the vestry adjoining. It is to be regretted that it was not built of more substantial material thanwood. The view of it in front, from the college yard, with its Gothic towerand spire, is quite pleasing, as well as the side view from North plenty of air and light, its internal arrangements are pleasant and help-ful both to speaker and hearer. The original records of the First Church, kept by the successive pastorsfrom the time of Brattle, in 1696,^ the christening basin presented to him bythe college stud
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