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Wreathing of Statue to Follow Foote Address in Chapel

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John Harvard's three hundred and twenty-seventh birthday will be celebrated by a special service in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church today at 8.45 o'clock this morning, held under the auspices of the Memorial Society. Henry Wilder Foote '97, Minister of the first Unitarian Church, Belmont, will give the commemorative address. A Baccalaureate Hymn, written by Lionel DeJersey Harvard, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, for his own Commencement in 1915, will be sung at the conclusion of the service after which the members of the Memorial Society will place a wreath on the John Harvard statue.

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