f ill ~*-~^£ ALUMNI HALL: %n %$$tul THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS HARYARD COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OP JOHN WILSON AND SONS. 1866. NEW YORK PUBL. UBl. IN EXCHANGE. APPEAL. To the Alumni and others, Friends of Harvard College : The Committee of Fifty appointed by the Associa- tion of the Alumni at its last meeting upon the subject of a perpetual memorial commemorative of the graduates and students of the College who fell, and of those who served, in the late rebellion, respect- fully inform you of the result of their deliberations, and solicit your aid in accomplishing the plan, which, after much consideration, has been unanimously and very cordially adopted. At first sight, there may seem to be a want of delicacy in thus approaching any who are not Alumni of the College, or in some other mode more imme- diately concerned in its associations and welfare. But the elements of the contemplated design are so comprehensive in their anticipated influences upon the sentiments and associations, not only of the present, but of every coming generation of the in- genuous youth of our country; and are so inter- woven with the best means of advancing the causes of literature, science, and art, and of promoting and transmitting the inspiration of a lofty patriotism, that it might, with more propriety, be considered in- vidious to exclude any from taking part in that which, in truth, is a public enterprise. The first movement upon this subject was made by a numerous assembly of graduates, called for its con- sideration, and holden in May, at which a large Com- mittee was appointed for its examination, with instruc- tions to report at an adjourned meeting. Their report was made in the following month of July, contain- ing a somewhat elaborate discussion of the several plans suggested, and terminating with the recom- mendation of a " Memorial Hall," combining the elements of the plan hereinafter described, as the most suitable and desirable memorial. The report and recommendation were accepted with almost entire unanimity, and ordered to be printed in two of the daily gazettes, and also in pamphlet form, and to be circulated as extensively as possible among the Alumni. It was further resolved that a copy of the report and resolutions should be transmitted to the association of the Alumni, at its meeting on Com- mencement Day, with the request, that, if they should coincide in the opinion thus expressed, they would take measures for procuring the means of erecting the proposed Hall. At that meeting of the Association, the report and resolutions were presented ; and, after debate, the whole subject was submitted to a " Committee of Fifty," "with full powers." That Committee, after discussion at several meetings, placed the whole sub- ject in the hands of a sub-committee of six, with directions to report at a future meeting. This Sub- committee, which was composed of members origin- ally of divers opinions as to the most suitable memorial, after extensive inquiries and much delib- eration, made their report in the month of De- cember, unanimously recommending the adoption of the plan represented in the accompanying engraving and description; and the General Committee ac- cepted the report with unanimity and great cor- diality. The plan, therefore, is presented to you, not as the scheme of any one, or of any few enthusiastic advo- cates, but as founded upon the deliberate convictions of the great body of the Alumni, declared by those appointed to represent them. Nor is the proposed "Memorial" one of merely local or limited inter- est; nor will it be of merely academic influence. It will stand, rather, a national monument to patriot- ism and learning, dear to the present, and to become ever dearer to every succeeding generation. The proposed scheme is founded upon three great wants of the University, each of such magnitude and urgency, that she ought not in vain to appeal to her sons or her friends. The first — and that lying deepest in the hearts of all — is the irrepressible desire of a suitable monu- ment in commemoration of the sons of Harvard who perilled and laid down their lives to preserve us, as a nation, and in defence of all that makes our country dear to us. As to the irresistible moral necessity of such a monument, there has been no difference of opin- ion. The only diversity was concerning the nature or form which should most eloquently express the senti- ments and emotions inspired by the services and sacrifices it should commemorate, and best perpetu- ate their influence upon those who are to come after us. Under other circumstances, the construction of a monument in the College grounds, devoted exclu- sively to the remembrance of those who have thus fallen, might have been all that opportunity would permit us to offer; defective as such a monument would have appeared to many who desire, in memo- rials of the dead, not only remembrance of their de- parture, but also associations of them with all that is elevating and inspiring in the duties and enjoyments of life ; and ineffectual, as, in the lapse of years, it might become for reviving their memories in College hearts. Or there might have remained to us only the still feebler tribute of mural tablets in the chapel, or some other collegiate hall. 'But, happily, by a com- bination of College necessities of almost equal urgen- cy, and concurring with singular force at this especial moment of time, the opportunity is presented of erect- ing a memorial, not only comprising such a monument and tablets, with ample scope for every other species of grateful tribute to *the dead, but united also with other College structures, composing portions of it, or inseparably blended with it, in such a manner as to secure a constant remembrance of those who fell, and an undying perpetuation of their virtues, in connec- tion with those of the founders, benefactors, and other illustrious sons of the University, — a memorial, con- stituting a Historic Gallery, where the names and effigies of those "who died for their country" will hold the most conspicuous place, and, as shining por- tions of the galaxy which the College has delighted to honor, will inspire her orators and poets in her literary festivals and at her genial table, until time to her shall be no more. Of the first of these necessities, that of a Monu- mental Memorial, no more need be said. The second (and the importance of this in the pres- ent and prospective condition of the College cannot well be exaggerated) is that of a Hall, in which to hold the meetings of the Alumni, and for their festal entertainments on the various occasions on which these are held. It is universally known that the present dining-hall is not only in other respects unsuitable and in ill accord with the dignity of the University, when proposing to invite all her children to her annual fes- tival, and to entertain with them distinguished guests from all parts of our own country and from abroad, but that it is altogether inadequate for their recep- tion ; so that not only are the members of the gradu- ating class, to whom the day is particularly dedicated, and who feel the nearest interest in its proceed- ings, by rule wholly excluded, but large numbers of older graduates cannot gain admittance. It needs no argument to show, that such exclusion, if it does not 8 excite aversion and disgust, deterring from College celebrations many who would otherwise resort to them, must have such a tendency, and materially im- pair the. interest which might otherwise be felt in them. Nor have the Alumni any other place of assembly, at which their meetings may be held, ex- cept as they may borrow for the occasion a lecture- room from one of the Professors. The need, there- fore, of a suitable hall for their own meetings and festivals, and for those of the University on Com- mencement Day and at other times*, and those of the Phi Beta Kappa, Class Day, and kindred institu- tions, is absolute, looking only upon the relations of the Alumni to the College as they have heretofore stood ; and is annually hicreasing with the augmenta- tion of the numbers in the classes. But a further need has recently arisen with the power conferred by the legislature upon the Alumni of electing the Over- seers, thus placing the visitatorial power over the University in their hands. This power imposes a corresponding duty; and it cannot be but that the annual choice of members of that Board will give very great additional interest to the meetings of the Alumni, and largely increase the number which will attend them. Especially must this be so when any important question affecting the management of the College or its interests shall agitate the public mind, as, from time to time, some one inevitably will do. It is such festivities and meetings that engender and nourish love for the College ; it is by them that inter- est in her welfare is stimulated, and a good fellowship among her sons cultivated which is of inestimable value to her and to themselves. The third necessity, a necessity certainly no less im- perative, and one from which no escape is perceived but by the aid of contributions for the purpose, is that of a Theatre for the celebration of the liter- ary festivals of the College and its affiliated institu- tions. The meeting-house of the religious society, in which these solemnities are now held, is, in point of pro- priety and dignity, most obviously unsuitable for those purposes, and of entirely insufficient capacity. But, if these deficiencies could be longer endured, no option is left to us, as the building is already tottering in decay, requiring constant precautions preparatory for such uses, and must very soon be taken down ; leaving the College wholly without any place of assembly but the open air for these celebrations. And it is but too well known that she has no means of erecting any hall from her present resources. Such are the three immediate and urgent necessi- ties, to relieve which our Alma Mater is now calling upon her sons and her friends for help. If they were unavoidably distinct, and not susceptible of combina- tion in perfect harmony and mutual aid, there might be hesitation or perplexity in selecting that for which such help should be first given ; or preference for one might leave another unprovided for. But such is the nature of each required structure, and such its pur- poses and uses, that all may be most happily blended ; 10 each adding greatly to the usefulness, beauty, dignity, and desired influences of the other. The monumental portion, of impressive grandeur and simplicity, and giving to the whole building the aspect of the memorial which will have more imme- diately led to its erection, not only adds its solemn and touching beauty without and within, but, being thus connected with the majestic hall in which are to be placed the portraits, statues, busts, and other memorials of Harvard's immortal sons, and connected, through that with the magnificent theatre, where the lite- rary festivals are to be celebrated, gives an other- wise unattainable dignity to both, and must ever prove' an unfailing source of inspiration and elevated senti- ment in the solemnities to which they are to be conse- crated; while both, in turn, by the services within their walls, will render it to every succeeding age more dear, and more sacredly to be preserved from dilapidation or decay. The blending of these three objects in one building was the desire of the Committees who have had the subject in charge, and several plans of various merit have been obtained ; but it was reserved for the skill and taste of Mr. William K. Ware, of the class of 1852, and of Mr. Henry Van Brunt, of the class of 1854, to complete the appropriate, beautiful, and majestic combination, which has not only demon- strated the practicability of the union, but proved it to be the effectual mode of presenting each struc ture in the most perfect form for accomplishing its design. 11 The enthusiasm which this plan has excited, it is hoped, may be accounted a happy augury of success. It is a sad, and, must we not add, a disreputable fact, that Harvard, the oldest University on the Am- erican continent, with the noblest record in the liter- ature and science of the country, and of honorable fame throughout the civilized world, has not one edi- fice which her children or the stranger may visit, as the shrine of her founders, benefactors, and illustrious sons, — not a hall within her boundaries, or which she may call her own, in which to celebrate her literary and scientific festivals, nor one in which she can gather her children and her guests around her hos- pitable board; that the busts and portraits and stat- ues and other memorials of her illustrious dead, and her precious relics of antiquity, are scattered in divers and unsuitable buildings ; that what should be her august assemblies are held in a borrowed meeting- house, and her feasts in a room without beauty or dignity, and incapable of receiving large numbers of those entitled and desirous to partake. The time has at length arrived when this state of things ought not to be, and, may we not say, cannot be longer endured. The high position of the University among the lit- erary institutions of the world ; her history from the foundation of the country, no less signal in patriotism than in letters and science ; the memories ' of her il- lustrious dead of past generations ; the blood of her noble sons, shed in the recent redemption of the na- tion, all demand that a shrine be erected for the 12 memorials of them, at which her children may ever assemble in fond veneration, to drink its holy inspira- tions; while the urgent necessities, above alluded to, at the same time appeal, with seemingly irresistible force, to the generosity of her sons and her friends. And what other shrine so appropriate and impressive, and so full of such inspiration ; and what other relief from those necessities so comprehensive, and so re- plete with the most desirable influences, can be ima- gined, as an "Historic. Temple," uniting monumental memorials and other tributes to the dead, and tokens of the loyalty of her sons, with the halls consecrated to her literary and social festivals ? The undersigned are aware that the opinion is held by some liberal friends of the University, whose views are entitled to great consideration, that, owing to the need of other and more suitable accommoda- tions for the library, her interests would be better and more immediately subserved by converting Gore Hall into a theatre ; and erecting another building for the library, with monumental or other memorials to those who have fallen in the rebellion, constructed within, or attached to, its walls ; and yet another for the meetings and festivals of the Alumni. It is be- lieved that no essential difficulty will be found in the making of such alteration and amendment of Gore Hall as may be from time to time required to render it a suitable depository of the College library, and that this may be done at a cost very far short of that of erecting a new edifice appropriate for the pur- pose, so that it may be retained for its present use, in 13 honor of the benefactor whose name it bears. But, however that may be, it does not seem credible that this plan could be effected at less expense than that recommended by the Committee. Without enter- ing into any discussion of then comparative merits in point of utility, beauty, and immediate and future influ- ences upon the welfare of the College, it seems enough to say, that, in the present state of feeling among the Alumni and of the public, any other project than that now recommended, is, at the least for an indefinite future, impracticable. This project — being that prompted by the sentiments and feelings of the Alum- ni in their first action upon the subject; made the topic of careful and elaborate consideration, in com- parison with all others, suggested by so many com- mittees ; so widely discussed among the graduates and friends of the College for so many months; so beautifully illustrated in the plan now submitted ; and so unanimously recommended by the General Com- mittee — has taken deep hold of the public mind, become the subject of general approbation, and, with many, one of much enthusiasm. It is comparatively easy to take advantage of this strong tide setting in its favor, and which, rightly improved, it is believed, may bear it on to an early accomplishment. While, on the other hand, any other plan must require another great expenditure of time, thought, and labor, in pro- curing the designs and estimates of cost, and in preparing the minds of the Alumni and of the public for their reception ; to say nothing of the lassitude and disgust, with which, after a long-established prefer- 14 ence or excitement in favor of one project, any sub- stitute is, for a while, contemplated. The undersigned are profoundly convinced, that, if this plan be now abandoned, or be proved impracticable, no other worthy of the College or of her sons can for a long time to come be attainable. And not only so, but they are further of the confi- dent belief, that the successful accomplishment of this design would be the surest means of the early attain- ment of any other desirable object for the benefit of the College, including a new building for the library if needed. They entirely concur in the view taken by a distinguished member of the Committee, when he said, " I do not believe that the adoption of this scheme will interfere with any other work which it may be desirable to undertake. On the contrary, I am fully of the opinion that we can make no more auspicious beginning of the improvements and re- forms which are called for at Harvard, than by the erection of this edifice. Let there be a Hall of the Alumni, where they may assemble in genial fel- lowship, and consult together in regard to the con- dition of their Alma Mater, and where they may be inspired by the pictured and sculptured presence of her founders and benefactors and most distinguished sons ; and their pride in her past history will be revived, their zeal for her future welfare will be re- kindled, and a new impulse will be given to the accomplishment of every thing which may promote her prosperity and honor." The Committee have the gratification to announce 15 that the President and Fellows of the Corporation, to whom- the plan has been submitted, have not only given to it the sanction of their approbation, but have also agreed to furnish a suitable site for the building, and to appropriate the memorably generous donation of Mr, Charles Sanders, mentioned in a former report (expected to amount to about fifty thousand dollars), towards the erection of it, as appears by the following copy of their vote : — At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, January 20, 1866. A communication to the Board from Charles Gr. Loring, Esq., being presented and read, asking the approbation of the President and Fellows to the plan of the Alumni Hall prepared by Ware and Van Brunt, Architects, and to the proposal that the means to con- struct the building shall be procured by subscription, and the use of the funds given and bequeathed by Charles Sanders, Esq., and that when sufficient means are procured the building shall be erected, Voted, That this Board approve the plan submitted ; and, when sufficient means are furnished, will authorize the erection of the building on some suitable site in or near the College yard, and will appropriate for its construction the funds received from Mr. Sanders, provided, and so far as, the purposes to which the build- ing is devoted are consistent with the conditions of Mr. Sanders' bequest. The last clause was added, by way of precaution, to indicate the necessity of restricting the appropri- ation to such portions of the structure as shall fall clearly within the design of the donor. It is not perceived why, if the friends of Mr. Sanders shall desire, or the Corporation shall elect, to have this donation applied particularly either to the Theatre or 16 to the Hall, the one or the other of these may not thenceforth bear his name, as the " Sanders Hall," or " Sanders Theatre." The monumental portion must, of course, be the subject of the united contributions. The total cost of the structure, at the present prices of material and labor, is estimated to be about two hundred thousand dollars, leaving the sum of about one hundred and fifty thousand to be raised by con- tribution. Brethren of the Alumni and friends of Harvard, to you she now makes her earnest and confident appeal for relief from the necessities we have laid before you, the removal of which will not only form a memorable epoch in her history, but be productive of the highest and happiest influences upon her future destiny. From those to whom, in the Divine Providence, much has been allotted, she hopes for corresponding aid. Of those whose means are more limited, she asks for that only which those means allow. It is to be remembered, that as the greatest sum is but the aggregate of many small ones, and as the full river is fed from trickling fountains, so every contribution, however small, adds its essential value to the whole gift. Still more it is to be remembered, that it is not the amount, but the spirit, which sanctifies the gift ; and that the larger the number of her children and friends to whom she may owe this testimonial of their regard, the more grateful and the more glorious will be the benefit conferred. It were indeed to be wished that every living Alumnus, and the friends of those who have departed, 17 in their names or for their sakes, with all who cherish an interest in her welfare, might thus lay something at her feet, so that the noble structure might stand, to all time, a monument of their love and loyalty. THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY. Charles G. Loring (Chairman), A.B. of 1812 Jacob Bigelow, „ . 1806 David Sears, , 1807 James Walker, ,. 1814 John G. Palfrey, , 1815 Stephen Salisbury, , 1817 Sidney Bartlett, , 1818 R. W. Emerson, , . 1821 Francis C. Lowell, , . 1821 Henry B. Rogers, , 1822 William Amory, , 1823 Christopher T. Thayer, , . 1824 Samuel H. Walley, , . 1826 Stephen M. Weld, , . 1826 Robert C. Winthrop, , . 1828 George T. Bigelow, , . 1829 Oliver W. Holmes, , 1829 Robert W. Hooper, , 1830 Thomas Gr. Appleton, , 1831 Josiah G. Abbott, , . 1832 Waldo Higginson, , 1833 Thomas Wigglesworth, , 1833 Turner Sargent, , . 1834 Amos A. Lawrence, , . 1834 Henry Lee, Jr., , . 1835 R. H. Dana, Jr., , 1837 P. T. Jackson, , . 1838 Samuel Eliot, , 3 . 1839 18 Edward E. Hale, A.B. of 1839 James Lawrence, , 1840 Edward N. Perkins, , 1841 Leverett Saltonstall, , 1844 Francis J. Child, , 1846 Charles E. Guild, , 1846 Charles E. Norton, , 1846 Charles F. Choate, , 1849 Samuel Batchelder, Jr., , 1851 H. H. Coolidge, , 1852 George Putnam, Jr., , 1854 Theodore Lyman, , 1855 George B. Chase, , , 1856 John C. Ropes, , 1857 John T. Morse, Jr., , . 1860 Edw. A. Crowninshield, , . 1861 Charles F. Folsom, , . 1862 William Greenough, , 1863 Richard H. Derby, , . 1864 J. Ingersoll Bowditch, A.M. . 1849 G. Howland Shaw, „ . 1860 William Everett (Secretar yM ..B . 1859 February 12, 1866. DESCRIPTION. This design embraces three principal parts : — I. The Hall. II. The Theatre. III. The Monument. These three divisions are distinct from each other, but are so combined as to form a single composition. I. The Hall includes an area of sixty feet by a hundred and thirty-two. It is thirty-seven feet from the floor to the top of the walls within, and eighty feet to the ridge of the roof in the centre. The roof is framed in open timber-work, with hammer-beam trusses, and bears a general resemblance to the famous roof of "Westminster Hall, and to the roofs of many of the collegiate halls at Oxford and Cambridge. The outward thrust of these trusses is met by external buttresses. The upper part of the side walls between these buttresses is occupied by windows, beneath which, on the inside, is a continuous wainscoting of hard wood, twenty feet high, against which are to be hung the pictures belong- ing to the college, and in front of which may be placed the busts, statues, or other academic memorials that may from time to time accumulate. Portraits or busts of men who have served in the war will, it is hoped, in time, form a prominent feature of this collection ; but this portion of the building will not belong to them in any distinctive and exclusive sense, and will have only that general memorial character which the honors paid by their Alma Mater to all her distinguished sons necessarily give it. It may suitably be used for any purpose to which a room of this size is adapted, and is capable of accommodating comfortably at table a thousand guests. 20 There is, at either end of the Hall, a gallery for music or for spectators, twenty feet deep, and sixty feet long. The side walls, below the portion intended for pictures, are panelled to the height of six feet from the "floor. At the end of the Hall, towards the Theatre, is a platform or dais, raised a few steps from the floor, for the use of presiding officers and distinguished guests. Immediately adjoining, and separated from it only by a partition wall, is the stage of the Theatre, which is in like manner set apart for the Corporation, the Overseers, the immediate Government, and distinguished guests. Over this central portion of the building rises a tower, thirty-three feet by seventy, and a hundred and fifty-six feet in height up to the ridge of the roof, which forms the central and dominant feature of the whole composition, and marks upon the outside the importance and dignity of the place beneath it. The walls of this tower are supported upon arches, of which the one towards the Hall, fifty feet wide, incloses the dais and the singing gallery mentioned above ; there is a similar but larger proscenium arch on the side towards the Theatre, covering the stage, and also containing a gallery for music. These arches are abutted by the walls of the staircase halls. In these staircase halls upon either side are the main entrances to the building. These entrances communicate directly with the Hall by doors opening upon the dais, and with the Theatre by stairs, which start under an arcade of three arches ; one division descending to an ambulatory, or corridor, which runs round the Theatre at the level of the ground, and the other two ascending to the passages above it, behind the first and second grade of seats. Three rows of windows mark upon the outside the position of these three floors. This ambulatory, which, besides bringing the opposite sides of the house into easy communication, enables persons to collect and talk without disturbing the audience in the Theatre, affords entrance to the floor of the house or pit by ample passages or vomitoria on either side. There is also an outer door opening to the rear of the building. Opening from one of the staircase halls is a withdrawing-room for the officers of the Alumni or of the College, thirty-two feet by twenty-five, large enough for the meetings of the Overseers. In the basement beneath are accommodations for the caterer, which have separate communication with the Hall. 21 II. The Theatre, with its ambulatory, vomitoria, and prosce- nium or stage, is not unlike those of classic antiquity ; the arrange- ment of seats being semicircular, and all sloping towards the speakers, whom all the spectators have an equal opportunity of seeing and hearing. There is, however, a gallery about two-thirds as deep as the range of seats beneath it, supported on columns. It is proposed to have no seats in the pit. In this, the example of the famous Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford has been followed ; a building, which, as a successful solution of a problem almost identical with this, has been made a particular object of study in the preparation of this design. It is said to exhibit an audience to better advantage than any room in England, and the means by which this is effected have been observed with care. ' This design exhibits accommodation for about sixteen hundred per- sons seated, and half as many more standing or sitting in the passages. This is about half as many again as the church will contain in which the literary exercises are now held. The Theatre is covered by an open timber roof of peculiar construction, without supports from the floor, and with the whole interior height unobstructed by ties. In entering by either principal entrance, a procession would ascend the broad flight of steps within, and, passing through the proscenium door, descend upon the stage with great dignity and effect in full sight of the audience. On occasions, however, on which the Hall is not occupied at the same time for other pur- poses, it would itself serve as a magnificent vestibule ; and a pro- cession, passing first through the monumental cloister at the other end of the building, would traverse the whole length of the Hall, and, crossing the dais, enter at once upon the centre of the stage. III. The Monumental or Memorial division of this building is an independent structure at the end of the Hall. The whole end of the building is treated as an external mural monument, upon an unprecedented scale ; the great height and breadth of the wall giving, by its mere mass, a dignity otherwise unattainable. To increase the monumental effect, all features of mere utility, such as doors and windows, are avoided. Above the level of the cornice, the wall surface rises into a decorated tablet about thirty feet in width and height, projected and defined against the back- ground of the roof. On this is sculptured the ancient arms of 22 the College, with the motto "Veritas," supported by the laurel and the palm, emblems of heroism and martyrdom. Below there will be an appropriate inscription, the form of which is reserved as a subject for further consideration. Below the inscription are three flat niches, covered with a canopy of foliated arches, and containing the names of the ninety- three graduates and students who have fallen. A space three feet long and eight inches in height is given to each name. On the face of the wall on either side are cut passages from Scrip- ture or the poets. Beneath is an arcade of seven pointed arches supported by shafts of polished red Gloucester granite, with carved capitals. This arcade, which is unglazed, opens upon the monu- mental cloister mentioned above, which occupies the interior of this structure. It is sixteen feet wide, and, including the porches at the ends, a hundred feet long ; affording upon its walls ample space for such tablets or other more private and personal memo- rials as classmates or friends may erect in further commemora- tion of those whose names are written upon the tablet outside, as also for the commemoration of students in other departments of the University. These special memorials will be visible through the arcade from without, and will thus serve to enhance the gene- ral sentiment of the external monument, without interfering with its unity and simplicity of line and. mass. An ample doorway opens from the centre of this cloister into the Hall, with access to the gallery above on each side. The building is designed to be erected in freestone and brick, or in freestone altogether, as may prove best : in either case, two va- rieties of stone would be used. Detailed estimates, which have been prepared with the assistance of some of our best mechanics, exhibit a sum total of about $200,000. The substitution of free- stone for brick on the outer walls would make an addition of about $20,000. But, in any case, it is proposed to have the monumental portion entirely of stone, and thus, by its material as well as by its form, to distinguish it from the rest of the building. WILLIAM R. WARE, HENRY VAN BRUNT, Architects. L.tfTW. 23 FINANCE COMMITTEE. Amos A. Lawrence {Chairman). A.B. of . . 1835 Stephen H. Tyng, 55 1817 Larz Anderson, 55 1822 Stephen M. Weld, 55 1826 Henry W. Bellows, 55 . 1832 Samuel Osgood, 55 . 1832 Waldo Higginson, 55 1833 Thomas Donaldson, 55 . 1834 Joseph Sargent, 55 . 1834 Joseph H. Williams, 55 . 1834 Henry Lee, Jr. (Treasurer), 55 . 1836 J. F. W. Ware, 55 • . 1838 John Kebler, 55 1839 Charles F. Shimmin, 55 1842 Francis J. Child, 55 1846 Charles E. Guild, 55 . 1846 Frederick A. Lane, 55 . 1849 Joseph H. Choate, 55 1852 Charles W. Eliot, 55 1853 Atherton Blight, 55 1854 Horace H. Furness, 55 1854 Phillips Brooks, 55 1855 lour 55 Alexander McKenzie, 55 1859 J. I. Bowditch, A.M. 1849 G. Howland Shaw, 55 1860 George C. Ward, William Everett {Secretary), A.B. . . 1859 A/Jy BUILDING COMMITTEE. Henry B. "Rogers {Chairman), A.B. of . . 1822 Turner Sargent, 55 . 1834 J. Elliot Cabot, 55 • . 1840 Charles E. Norton, 55 . 1846 Theodore Lyman, 55 . 1855 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 029 934 655 9 •