JOHN HARVARD TO BE HONORED

The Memorial Society will celebrate the 310th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard in the Delta by Memorial Hall tomorrow morning at 8.15 o'clock with short exercises in which the first and second battalions will participate. The colors will be borne and the Regimental Band will play "Fair Harvard" and "The Star Spangled Banner." After the exercises on the Delta services in Appleton Chapel in commemoration of John Harvard will conclude the celebration.

Today is the date generally accepted as the birthday of the famous founder of the University, but the exercises will take place tomorrow in order that a portion of the Corps may participate.

Little is known of John Harvard. Biographers who have attempted to portray his life have ascertained only a dozen dates of his career, and several of these indicate in a very uncertain manner the more important events of his life. The records state that he was born in 1607, that he was the son of a butcher and that four of his brothers and sisters perished in the great plague at London.

John Harvard's library, which was part of his bequest to the College, was destroyed by fire in 1764. A catalogue which was compiled under the direction of President Dunster of the College gives a fairly complete list of the books which the University's founder had gathered together. There were approximately 300 volumes in all. The Memorial Society is gradually collecting a library which, in a few years, will be a fair reproduction of the original.