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Shakespeare Known by John Harvard, Hersey Talk Shows

Early Years of Founder Described by Memorial Speaker

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John Harvard's mother went to school with Shakespeare; Harvard knew as a boy the Great Bard, and his Inn, the sale of which supplied the money for the donation to the University, was often fined for selling liquor during church hours. Such were among the interesting facts brought out by Frank W. C. Hersey '99, instructor in English, in his talk before the Memorial Society, last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room.

Mr. Hersey told the history of the Inn, "The Queen's Head," in Southwark, London, which John Harvard inherited from his mother and sold, along with other property, to obtain the money to go to America and make his bequest.

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