HONOR FOUNDER'S BIRTHDAY

The opening exercises of the celebration which the Memorial Society will hold this year to commemorate the 309th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard will be held in the Common Room of Smith Halls this evening at 8.00 o'clock. At this meeting, which is primarily intended for Freshmen and members of the Memorial Society, but open to all members of the University, William Coolidge Lane '81, president of the Memorial Society and College Librarian, will speak on "John Harvard and Early College Days in Cambridge." The meeting will immediately follow Dr. Fitch's address to the Freshmen.

All members of the University are invited to join the Memorial Society in doing honor to the founder of the University in the Delta near Memorial Hall tomorrow morning at 8.30 o'clock. The Society will gather before John Harvard's statue at that time, and J. W. D. Seymour '17, in a short address, will speak on our debt to the founder and loyalty to the College. The statue will be decorated with laurel wreaths for the occasion and the exercises will be closed with the singing of "Fair Harvard." The meeting will then adjourn to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00 will speak on "John Harvard."

The officers of the Memorial Society, under whose auspices these meetings will be held, follow: permanent president, William C. Lane '81; vice-president, Dean Hurlburt; secretary, R. N. Cram '17; treasurer, W. D. Canaday '17; archivist, R. W. Babcock '17.

There are few members of the University who fully realize the extent of John Harvard's gifts to the University, and still fower probably who are acquainted with the character or the facts of the life of the man himself. Not many objects which were identified with John Harvard remain to us. Only one book of the library he gave to the College was saved from the fire, which razed Harvard Hall in 1764, and his house in Charles town was burned to the ground 11 years later