John Harvard Window.

It was decided by the Corporation during the summer to participate in the restoration of St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, London, by presenting to it a memorial window of John Harvard. He was baptined in the church on Nov. 29, 1607, and it was therefore decided that the college of which he was the founder should take part in the work of restoring the ancient English building.

St. Saviour's Church, which is situated in Wellington street, on the south, or Surrey, side of the English capital, is the oldest of the London churches. When it was built in the thirteenth century by Gifford, bishop of Winchester, it formed a part of the Augustinian Priory of St. Mary Overy, But in 1540 it was converted by Henry VIII into a parish church, and it has retained that character ever since. Reputed heretics were tried in the Lady Chapel in 1555, during the reign of "bloody" Queen Mary. In 1840 the old nave was taken down and an incongruous new structure substituted.

Besides the special interest for Harvard men which attaches to the ancient edifice as the church in which John Harvard was baptized, it is further noted as the burial place of John Gowen, the poet and friend of Chaucer, the dramatists Massinger and Fietcher, Edmund Shakspeare, the brother of William, and Lawrence Fletcher, who was joint lessee with with Shakspeare and Burbrige of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres. An excellent view of the interior of the church forms the frontispiece of the Graduates' Magazine for September.