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A James Russell Lowell THE Gossiping Guide TO Harvard AND Places of Interest in Cambridge After all, Cambridge delighteth my heart exceedingly. — Longfellow Cambridge Tribune Harvard Square, Cambridge 1894 •at. »th Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1892 By F. Stanhope Hill. Graves & Henry, Printers, Cambridge. FORE-WORD. IF I seem to the reader sometimes to have given * stories in place of facts, it has been through an endeavor to make these buildings and walks appear to the stranger clothed in the traditions and associations which alone must give them in- terest. My title-page owes parentage to the "Gossiping Guide to Oxford/' but I can hardly hope for the great success which that publication has achieved. Charles Knowles Bolton. KEY. A. — Austin Hall. Law School. A. C. — Appleton Chapel. A. A. $.— Alpha Delta Phi Club- House. B.— Boylston Hall. Be.— Beck Hall. C. — College House. Cy. — Carey Athletic Building. D.— Divinity Hall. Da.— Dane Hall. D. H. — Divinity House. D. L. — Divinity Library. F. Foxcroft House. G.— Grays Hall. Gy . — Gymnasium . H.— Hollis Hall. Ha.— Harvard Hall. H. C— Holden Chapel. Hi.— Hilton Block. Hy.— Holworthy Hall. Hke. — Holyoke House. Ho. — Hospital. H. P. Club.— Hasty Pudding Club- House, Holyoke St. J. — Jefferson Physical Laboratory. L.— Little's Block. Lb. — Library. Gore Hall. L. S. S. — Lawrence Scientific School. M.— Matthews Hall. Mm.— Memorial Hall. Mn. — Manter Block. Ms. — Massachusetts Hall. O. G. — Old Gymnasium. P. — Peabody Museum. P'c'l'n.— Porcellian Club-House, Harvard St. Q'cy. — Quincy Hall. R.— Read's Block and Post-Office. S. — Stoughton Hall. Se.— Sever Hall. Sh.— Shepherd Block. So. — Society House. T.— Thayer Hall. U.— University Hall. W.— Weld Hall. Wa. — Wadsworth House. W. H.— Walter Hastings Hall. Z. — University Museum. Z. ^. — Zeta Psi Society House. 28.— A 29. — C. 30.— N 31.-C, 15.— C. L. Smith. 16.— J. K. Paine. 17. — G. L. Kittredge. 18.— J. E. Wolff. 19. — G. Weinschenk. 6 I K. Fran eke. 2 * ( R. L. Sanderson. i J. P. Cooke. 7 ' \ O. W. Huntington P. Peabody. W. Eliot. S. Shaler. C. Langdell. 32. — A. Agassiz. 32A. — J. M. Peirce. 33. — F. C. de Sumichrast. 33A. — A. A. Howard. 34.— S. M. Macvane. 35. — The late J. Lovering. 40. — W. James. 42.— J. D. Whitney. 43. — J. H. Arnold. 44. — J. B. Ames. 45.— H. W. Torrey. , fW.C. Lane. 4 °- \ A. R. Marsh. 47.— F. G. Peabody. (W.B. Hills. S- 5 ' { D. A. Sargent. 53A.— E. S. Wood. 54.— C. H. Moore. 55.— E. L. Mark. 56.— H. P. Walcott. 57.— A. B. Hart. 58. — Fay House. Harvard Annex. 59. — D. G. Lyon. 59A.— G. H. Palmer. 60.— J. B. Thayer. 61. — A. McKenzie. Smith. Bolles. Williston. W. White. 66.— W. W. Goodwin. 67. — P. B. Marcou. 68. — E. Emerton. 69.— The late S. Watson. 69A.— C. P. Parker. 71. — H. C. G. von Jagemann. 80.— C. C. Everett. 62.-J. 63.-F. 64.— S. 65.-J, 81.— W. H. Tillinghast. Concord Ave. is at the extreme left of the map, just above Berkeley St. It crosses Garden St. near Follen St. Craigie St. joins Concord Ave. at the left of Fig. 65. Mt. Auburn St. is at the bottom of the page at Fig. 19. North Avenue begins at Harvard Sq. and passes north by the Common, east side, and at the west end of Jarvis St. Charles River and the Weld Boat-House are directly south of Harvard Sq., following Boylston St. THE Gossiping Guide to Harvard A Word of Early History. /CAMBRIDGE was originally known as New- ^-^ town, and its first settlers arrived in 1631. Mr. Bynner's " Penelope's Suitors " gives a pretty, quaint picture of these early years in the Colony. October 28th, 1636, the General Court of Massa- chusetts Bay voted "to give 400I. towards a schoole or colledge." In 1637 the college was or- dered established at Newtown, and the name changed to Cambridge. In 1637 Nathaniel Eaton was appointed pro- fessor of the school, and under his superintendence a small wooden house was' built (near Wadsworth House), with an acre of land around it and some thirty apple trees. Eaton "entertained one Na- thaniel Briscoe, a gentleman born, to be his usher," but Briscoe complained, after three days, of receiv- ing 200 stripes about the head, and the scholars rebelled at the bad food. As a result, Eaton was discharged. In March, 1639, tne college took the name of Rev. John Harvard, late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who died at Charlestown in 10 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 1638, leaving his library of 260 volumes and one- half his estate (about ^780) to the college. Students were arranged according to the social rank of their parents. One Indian, Caleb Cheeshah- teaumuck, took a degree, but died the following year. Of these early days more will be said in connection with the college buildings. The Presidents of Harvard. Henry Dunster, 1640-1654. Charles Chauncy, 1654-1672. Leonard Hoar, 1672-1675. Urian Oakes, 1675-1681. John Rogers, 1682-1684. Increase Mather, 1685-1701. Samuel Willard, 1 701-1707. John Leverett, 17 08-1 7 2 4. Benjamin Wads worth, 172 5- 1737. Edward Holyoke, 1 737-1 769. Samuel Locke, 17 70-1 773. Samuel Langdon, 1774-1780. Joseph Willard, i 781-1804. Samuel Webber, 1806-1810. John Thornton Kirkland, 1810-1828. Josiah Quincv, 1829-1845. Edward Everett, 1846-1849. Jared Sparks, 1849-1853. James Walker, 1853-1860. Cornelius Conway Feltox. 1860-1862. Thomas Hill, 1862-1868. Charles William Eliot. 1869- GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. II The growth of the university has been due in part, perhaps, to the progressive spirit in the col- lege government, which does not permit the grad- uate, however engrossed he may become in the questions of the day, to feel that his alma mater in her quieter duties is less abreast of the times. There are in the college proper 1500 students, and in the university 2700. Cambridge Is reached by carriage, or by electric and horse cars from Bowdoin Square, and from Park Square, Boston, at intervals of a few minutes until mid- night, and from Bowdoin Square hourly, on the half hour, from 12.30 a.m. until morning. Cars bearing the signs, " Harvard Square/' " Mount Auburn," " Newton," " North Avenue," or ''Arling- ton," all enter Harvard Square, after a ride of thirty minutes. The new City Hall, Of light stone with dark trimmings, and pointed clock tower, on a slight elevation, is passed on the right (Main Street, corner Inman), the gift of F. H. Rindge of Los Angeles : Cal. Mr. Rindge gave also the Public Library, a handsome building at the corner of Broadway and Trowbridge Street; the Manual Training School, and land for the Eng- lish High School, which stand on either side of the library. 12 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. Dana Street, On the right, is the dividing line between Cam- bridgeport and Old Cambridge. The poet Long- fellow, in a letter written soon after accepting a professorship at Harvard, spoke of the college town, " three miles from Boston." A Hessian prisoner of war, in 1777, wrote : " Cambridge is a small place, having no attraction save Harvard College and its large buildings. . . . The en- tire neighborhood between Cambridge and Boston is filled with a number of bare and treeless hills." We pass the Baptist Church, on the right, and im- mediately afterward Quincy Hall and Beck Hall, At the entrance to Quincy Square, dormitories not owned by the university. The college buildings now appear on the right. Leaving the car at Harvard Square, and retrac- ing our steps to the first crossing, just beyond the University Bookstore, we enter the college grounds, with Wadsworth House On the right, a wooden structure of two stories and gambrel roof, with dormer windows, facing to the south. The room nearest the gate is occu- pied each forenoon by one of the university preachers, where he may be visited by students, GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 13 The Bursar's office is in the brick attachment at the rear, for payment of term bills, securing of rooms, etc. The other rooms in the building are rented to students. This is, next to Massachusetts, the oldest of the college buildings, erected in 1726, the General Court giving ,£1000 to build a house for "the Reverend the President of Harvard College," and occupied by President Wadsworth and his suc- cessors until Mr. Sparks was elected in .1849. Washington lived here a few days before going to "Craigie House," being influenced perhaps to make the change by the appearance of a lighted shell in the Square, thrown, says the daughter of President Quincy, from the British works on Copp's Hill, Boston. The old meeting-house, built in 1756, once stood at the left, on the corner now rounded off to enlarge the Square. The small brick building at the left is Dane Hall, Occupied in 1832 as a law school, later by a coop- erative society for the sale of text-books, furniture and clothing. Here are given Prof. J. K. Paine's courses in music and Prof. F. G. Peabody's courses in ethics and social science. The walk leads to the college yard, with Matthews Hall On the left and Grays on the immediate right. 14 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. Matthews, given by the father of Mayor Matthews of Boston, begun in 1870, of brick with stone trimmings, in the Gothic style, has sixty suites of rooms, each consisting of a study and one or two bed-rooms. One half the yearly receipts goes in the form of scholarships to students who expect to en- ter the Episcopal ministry. In front of Matthews stood the Indian College, Erected in 1666 "for the conveniencye of six hop- full Indians youthes," and pulled down in 1698, one "hopfull" having graduated, and one living to complete part of the course before the w r hite man's civilization killed him. Grays Hall, With the date of the founding of the college, 1636, and of the erection of the hall, 1863, on a tablet, commemorates the generous gifts of the well-known Gray family of Boston. Passing in front of Grays, we come to Weld Hall, On the left, facing Matthews, built in 1872 by Wm. F. Weld, in memory of his brother, Stephen Minot Weld. There are commemorative tablets in the entry. Weld is a popular dormitory, and on warm evenings the Glee Club meets here, or on the steps of Matthews, to sing. GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 1$ The white stone building is University Hall, con- taining the college offices and some recitation rooms (see p. 35). At the right of Weld, beyond Grays, is Boylston Hall, Built in 1857, of Rockport granite, for a chemical laboratory, Ward Nicholas Boylston (of a famous Boston family, giving its name to Boylston Street) having left, long before, money toward this object Here Prof. J. P. Cooke has these many years lec- tured to a crowded class-room, making chemistry so interesting that his entrance is always greeted with applause. Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard and the Wigglesworths once lived on this spot, as a tablet in the south wall relates. To the east is Gore Hall (College Library), Built in 1841, of Quincy granite, Christopher Gore (Harvard, 1776) having bequeathed $70,000. The architecture is a modification of the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, the alma mater of some of New England's early ministers. Enter at the door beneath the gilt cross, which was brought from Louisburg in 1745 by Massachusetts troops. The library, of 41,000 volumes in 1841, now has grown to about 400,000 volumes, including departmental libraries, and nearly as many pamphlets. The east wing was added in 1877, but the present building is already very much crowded. The 1 6 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. library is open to any one for consultation. The author and subject catalogues are in the ash cases opposite the door. The stack, or shelves for books, is at the right, not open to the public. Turning to the left, enter at the glass doors the old building, thirty-five feet high from floor to groined ceiling. In the alcoves are periodicals and books on special subjects, as Colonial history, Fine Arts and Romance languages, reserved for use in con- nection with college courses. Ascending the iron stairs near the glass doors and the catalogues, past the bound volumes of periodicals, we reach the art room, containing autographs, Longfellow's " Excel- sior,'' Burns's " Scots wha hae wr Wallace bled,'' Milton, Pope, Napoleon, etc. ; also the only book from John Harvard's library remaining after the fire in 1764, John Downame's ''Christian Warfare Against the Deuill, World and Flesh.'' March 27, 1667, "Mr. Solomon Stoddard was chosen Library Keeper." August 23, 1679. was " paid to Jno. Pal- fry 36s. . . . pr 1 doz. Stooles made for ye Col- ledge Library." Many generous gifts increased the library, especially from the Hollis family of Lon- don ; but in 1764, the General Court having come to Cambridge to avoid the small-pox, a beam took fire and the library was destroyed. There are many funds given in memory of friends, with incomes varying from a small amount yearly to $4000 or GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 1 7 more. The collection of folk-lore and mediaeval ro- mances (nearly 6000 volumes) is perhaps the largest in existence. There is a large collection of works relating to Dante ; there are also manuscripts of the poet Shelley, and Carlyle's library used in writing "Cromwell" and "Frederick the Great," left to Harvard in his will. The present librarian is Mr. Justin Winsor, author of the "Narrative and Critical History of America," " Christopher Colum- bus," and other works. The President's House, Of brick, with mansard roof, fronts on Quincy Street, and is approached from the college grounds by the walk which starts near the door of Gore Hall (library). Presidents Felton and Hill lived here before Mr. Eliot became president in 1869. On the morning of Class-day the seniors march two by two up the walk, preceded by a band, to break- fast with the president. On Quincy Street, imme- diately opposite the president's house, is the new Colonial Club-house, formerly the residence of the late Henry James, father of the well-known nov- elist. South of the president's house, and facing Quincy Square, we see Dana House, Built by Chief Justice R. H. Dana in 1823. In ^839 a cupola with revolving dome was added, and 1 8 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. much good astronomical work was done here until the present observatory (p. .44) was built in 1844. It is now the home of Rev. A. P. Peabody, who has given a long life to the welfare of the univer- sity. Turning northward, by the eastern end of Gore Hall, the large brick building before us, with arched doorway, dormer windows, and red tile roof, is Sever Hall, Erected in 1880, one of the finest recitation halls in the country, named for Mrs. Anne E. P. Sever, who gave $100,000. The architect w T as H. H. Richardson of Boston, who built Austin Hall (the law school) and Trinity Church, Boston. Visitors may get some conception of the interior of Sever Hall by looking into rooms in which no recitations are in progress. Exhibitions of pictures on the third floor, and lectures free to the public, are ad- vertised on the boards inside at the left. Leaving Sever Hall by the same door (west), and turning to the right, we see (southeast corner of Quincy Street and Broadway) the home of Professor Alexander Agassiz. We pass Appleton Chapel On the left, named for Samuel Appleton of Boston, who set apart $50,000 of his gift of $200,000 for this purpose. It has been greatly improved by the GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 19 children of the late Nathan Appleton. The obse- quies of Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray, and services for Longfellow and Lowell, were held here. Attend- ance at morning prayers (from 8.45 to 9 a.m.) is vol- untary. The vesper services on each Thursday from Thanksgiving to Easter, at 5.30 p.m., are open to the public, the chapel usually being crowded. From 1744 to 1766 Holden Chapel was used for prayers ; later, Harvard Hall and University Hall. When Tutor Ashur Ware officiated at prayers in bygone days, his timid nature was put to the test by students whose colds took the form of very audible sneezes in this wise : "Ashur, ashur, ashur-ware" President Kirkland one morning found " pull-crackers " fastened one end to each cover of the Bible, and the explosion which followed when he opened the book turned prayers into admonition. In 182 1, nearly all the students having gone to Boston to hear the elder Kean, a storm brought two feet of snow, and only three students reached Cambridge in time for morning prayers. Beyond Appleton Chapel, and in line with University Hall (the white building), is Thayer Hall, A dormitory, built in 1869-70 by Nathaniel Thayer, of a wealthy Boston family, in memory of his father, a minister of the same name, and of his brother, John Eliot Thayer. The 2Q GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. Gateway at the North End of Thayer Was erected in 1891 by G. von L. Meyer (Harvard, 1879), a prominent Boston gentleman. Crossing the open space where Cambridge Street meets Broadway, we stand before the Statue to John Harvard, Given by S. J. Bridge in 1883. It is of bronze, by French, whose fine statue of the " Minute Man " at Concord, with Saint-Gaudens's " Puritan," (Deacon Chapin), at Springfield, are together emblematic of the manhood and courage of the founders of New England. There is no likeness of John Harvard in existence. A few steps eastward on Cambridge Street brings us to the entrance to Memorial Hall, Of brick, with Dining Hall on the west, Sanders Theatre on the east, and the splendid square tower, 200 feet high, in the centre. Memorial Hall was dedicated July 23, 1874, Charles Francis Adams giving the address, and Oliver Wendell Holmes the poem. Sanders Theatre was finished in 1876. The names of Harvard graduates and students who fell in the civil war are preserved on the mar- ble tablets in the transept. The portraits belong- ing to the college are hung on the walls of the din- ing-hall, and may be seen except during the hours 2 2 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. for meals. Many are unique, the collection repre- senting well the great men of Harvard. The por- traits by Copley and Stuart deserve special notice. The busts are the work of Crawford (father of Marion Crawford), Hiram Powers, and others, the represen- tation of Longfellow being a replica of that placed in Westminster Abbey. When the students are at lunch or dinner, visitors may see the dining-room from the gallery, entrance to which is by the door on the west side of the transept, near the north entrance. In 1650 Mitchel, a graduate and tutor, thought so well of " Commons" that he ordered from it " a supper on his wedding-night." The venture has never been repeated. In 1746, wrote a son of President Holyoke, "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer," and supper " a pye." Directly opposite this door is the entrance to Sanders Theatre, where Class-day and graduation exercises are held. The story of the founding of Harvard College is told in the Latin inscriptions over the stage. The wall back of the stage is ornamented with the college seal, three books bearing the word "Veritas" (truth). Josiah Quincy, a statue of whom in marble, by Story, stands near the stage, was the sixteenth president of the college. He was born in Boston in 1772 of a famous family which gave its name to 3 3 24 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD, John Quin cy Adams and to the town of Quincy, and is still represented by the same old-fashioned baptismal name. He was for eight years in Con- gress, for six years Mayor of Boston — known as the " Great Mayor " — and for sixteen years presi- dent of Harvard. He wrote a history of the college, and last appeared at a meeting of the alumni in # 1863, at the age of ninety-two. Felton Hall, A private dormitory, is at the corner of Cambridge and Trowbridge Streets. Leaving Memorial Hall by the North entry, the old home of President Sparks, the historian, stands on the right at the southeast corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets ; it is now occupied by the New Church Theological School (Swedenborgian), the students of which enjoy certain privileges in the college, although in no way connected with it. Here the visitor may turn to the left, following Kirkland Street until he reaches the Gymnasium, Built of brick with sandstone trimmings, a brick porch approached from either side by stone steps, and pointed roof with arched window in the end (described on p. 29). A visit, however, to the Peabody Museum and the Agassiz Museum should be made if time permits. Turning to the right on GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 25 Kirkland Street (which lies on the north side of Memorial Hall) we reach Divinity Avenue, diagon- ally opposite the end of Quincy Street. The first large, brick building on the left side of Divinity Avenue as we pass along under the arch- ing trees is the Peabody Museum Of American Archaeology and Ethnology, open to visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Founded by George Peabody, who gave in all $150,000; of this sum $60,000 were reserved for a building, which was fin- ished in 1877.- The Museum preserves implements and ornaments relating to the aboriginal American races. Professor F. W. Putnam is the curator. In July, 1 89 1, the government of Honduras gave to the Museum, by a special edict, the charge of the antiquities of that country for ten years, with the privilege of bringing to the Museum one-half of the collection obtained by explorations of the ancient cities and burial places within the borders of the country. The Serpent Mound Park in Adams County, Ohio, containing the great Serpent Mound, is the property of the Peabody Museum. On the right is Divinity Hall, A plain, brick building erected in 1826, with which are associated such names as Wm. Ellery Channing, and James Freeman Clarke. Beyond is the new 26 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. Divinity School Library, A pretty little building, with some interesting prints of celebrated clergymen on its walls. Back of the library (to the east) is Norton Field, recently laid out for base-ball, tennis, etc. " Shady Hill/' the home of Charles Eliot Norton, the friend of Ruskin. Emerson and Carlyle. and professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, is just out of sight, on rising ground, among the trees which skirt the field. It is one of the few remaining historic houses in Cambridge. Here Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet, spent a sum- mer. Opposite the Divinity School is the Museum of Comparative Zoology, which, with the recent addition, leaves but one side to be completed to make a splendid museum building. The Museum (open 9 to 5, and on Sundays from May to November, 1 to 5 ) is largely the result of the life work of Louis Agassiz. son of a poor minister of Motier, Switzerland, the sixth of that profession in direct descent, and of Louis's son, Alexander, who is devoting his time and wealth to the work begun by his father. Entering by the door on the south side of the east wing and ascend- ing three flights we see the collections which are the results of expeditions to Brazil, the Straits of Magellan, the Pacific, and wherever specimens were to be obtained. After examining the birds, rep- GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 27 tiles and mammals, and passing westward, we come to the glass flowers, a most wonderful display of imitations of flowers, mide by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, of Germany, to whom alone the process of making and coloring is known. The Peabody Museum and the Museum of Zoology are distinct trusts, although both belong to the college ; their buildings will some time be united. Dom Pedro II, of Brazil, was an "ardent friend of the Museum. Leaving the Museum by the west entrance we come out upon Oxford Street. Turning to the right, the first street on the left hand is Jarvis, with Holmes Field on the south and Jarvis Field on the north side, the one devoted to base-ball and the other to foot-ball and tennis. The new structure on the left in passing is the Carey Building, Where the crew practise- in winter, in a circular tank, the boat being stationary while the water moves. The building was finished in 1890, the gift of Henry Astor Carey. Jarvis Street opens into North Avenue, which leads to Arlington on the right with electric cars, and on the left to Harvard Square and Boston. Walking toward the Square we pass Walter Hastings Hall, On the left, one of the finest of the college 2& GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. dormitories, built in 1890, costing $243,000, the bequest of Walter Hastings. It is in the shape of the letter tr 1 . The new and attractive church edi- fice of the North-Avenue Methodist Episcopal So- ciety stands close by. Not far beyond, where the cinder walk bends in to the left, stands the Law School, near the site of the old Holmes House. Judge Oliver Wendell had bought the estate in 1807, an d Rev. Abiel Holmes, when he married the only daughter, came here to live. The house was of wood with gambrel roof and three dormer windows, and was not unlike Wadsworth House. Here Oliver Wendell Holmes was born, 29 August, 1809. It is said, as the result of a consultation in this house, the heights known as Bunker Hill were fortified, in 1775. Austin Hall (the Law School), Was erected in 1883, the beqna & t of E&*4«- Austin. The splendid arches over the entrance, and the inner construction, are characteristic of the archi- tect, H. H. Richardson. There are large lecture rooms in the east and the west wings with inclined floors, and another at the back of the building. Visitors may ascend the stairs at the left of the entrance and see the library, an attractive room with open fireplace, old portraits, and a pleasant view Gossiping guide to harvard. 29 over Holmes Field and the Common. The Law School is in a very prosperous condition, offering a preparation second to none in the country. In 18 1 5 the Isaac Royall professorship was es- tablished, and was first held by Chief Justice Parker of Massachusetts. Judge Joseph Story of the Su- preme Court of the United States first held the Dane professorship, founded by Hon. Nathan Dane. In 1832 the Law School was moved from old College House to Dane Hall on Harvard Square, which was its home for fifty years. Walking down the path before Austin Hall, the Gymnasium stands on the left, facing to the south. The Hemenway Gymnasium Was erected in 1879 by Peabody & Stearn s, of Boston, at a cost of $100,000, the gift of Augustus Hemenway (H. U., 1875). Entering under the brick porch on the south side, and turning through the doorway at the left, we stand in the main room. Above there is a running track, and in the base- ment there are bowling alleys. The wash-rooms and " lockers " for clothes are on the first floor at the right (not open to the public) and in the base- ment. The Gymnasium is free to all students of the University, but a fee is charged for lockers. The Lawrence Scientific School, Just east of the Gymnasium, was founded in 1847 30 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. by Abbott Lawrence of Boston. Prof. Horsford was placed in charge of the chemical department and Prof. Agassiz took the chair of zoology and geology. President Eliot at one time, as an assist- ant professor of chemistry, was connected with the School. The lectures in philosophy and psychol- ogy, by Prof. William James (brother of Henry James, the novelist) formerly were given here. The Jefferson Physical Laboratory, North of the Scientific School, was finished in 1884, at a cost of $115,000, the gift of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, appointed minister to France in 1892. Leaving the Gymnasium by the gate near the Scientific School, and crossing the street, we enter the college yard again, with Stoughton Hall on the right and Holworthy Hall On the left, the latter forming the north side of the quadrangle. Built by the proceeds from a lot- tery in 18 1 2, and named for Sir Matthew Holworthy of Hackney, England, who left in 1678 at his death ;£iooo sterling to the college. The suites occupy the whole depth of the building and make it a desira- ble dormitory in spite of its age. No. 12 Holworthy was visited in i860 by the Prince of Wales, and in 187 1 by the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, both of whom gave their photographs to adorn the walls. GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 3 1 Stoughton Hall, At the northwest corner of the yard, adjoining Hol- worthy, was built in 1805, chiefly by money raised in a lottery, keeping the name of the old hall erected by Lieutenant-Governor Stoughton (H. U., 1650) in 1700. The old hall stood west of Univer- sity Hall, at a right angle with Massachusetts and Harvard halls. It sheltered 240 men during the revolution and was taken down in 1780. In the present building lived : Oliver Wendell Holmes, No. 31. Edward Everett, No. 23. Edward Everett Hale, No. 22. Charles Sumner, No. 12. Caleb Cushing, No. 26. In line with Stoughton and to the south stands Hollis Hall, Erected in 1763, and named for the family of Thomas Hollis, of London, who founded two pro- fessorships in the college. His first gift, in 17 19, was an invoice of hardware to a Boston merchant for the benefit of Harvard. Seven of the family were givers to the college. In 1775 the Provincial Congress took possession of the buildings, and the students were compelled to leave their rooms. In the early days Hollis was the home of many clubs ; one called the Medical Faculty or " Med. Fac." 32 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. had mock lectures in Room 13 and sent one of its degrees to the Emperor of Russia, who gave in return a case of handsome instruments, which was gladly appropriated by the medical professors of the college. Among the distinguished men who roomed in Hollis were : Edward Everett, Nos. 20 and 24. YV. H. Prescott, Nos. 6 and ii. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nos. 5, 15 and 20. Charles Sumner, No. 17. Wendell Phillips, Nos. 11, 16 and 18. Henry D. Thoreau, Nos. 20, 23, 31 and 32. Between Stoughton and Hollis, and a little to the west, stands Holden Chapel, A small, brick building, erected in 1744 through the influence of Benjamin Colman, first pastor of the Brattle-street Church, Boston (H. U., 1692), the same whose election to the presidency of Harvard later (declined) caused the disappointed Cotton Mather to write : " The Corporation of o r Miserable Colledge do again treat me with their accustomed Indignity and Malignity." Colman on a voyage to England fell into the hands of a French privateer, France being then at war with Great Britain, and reached London after long imprison- ment without a penny. Here a kind lady be- friended him, and her son, Hon. Samuel Holden GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 33 M. P., and governor of the Bank of England, found the young man's company very agreeable. Through this friendship so romantically started came some 5000 pounds to Harvard, and after Mr. Holden's death 400 pounds from Mrs. Holden and her daughters for a chapel. All matters of moment were announced " at prayers." On one memorable occasion the Faculty considered the disposition of a keg of bad butter, and at prayer time the president gravely announced that as the butter could not be eaten on bread it would be used in the making of sauce. Cotton Mather's frequent attempts to win the presidency led him to imagine the college in a sad state without his governing hand, with '-stealing, swearing, idleness, picking of locks and too fre- quent use of strong drink/' besides students going t into town on Sabbath mornings for breakfast. In 1734 the following fines inshillings and pence were to be imposed among others : s.d. Tardiness at prayers 1 Absence from prayers 2 Absence from Professor's public lecture 4 Sending Freshmen on errands in study time 9 Drunkenness, taking lead from the roof 1.6 Profane swearing, firing guns or pistols in College yard, undergraduates playing cards, etc 2.6 Neglecting analysing 3. Graduates playing cards, opening doors by pick-locks 5. In the square between Holden, Hollis and the back of Harvard Hall stands the 34 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. Class-Day Tree, Still marked where the bands of roses have each year been strung to be striven for by rough-clothed Seniors after the class song has been sung. The ladies sit on the raised seats, and graduates and students occupy the grass between the seats and the graduating class about the tree. "These seats and the windows in the stories above them/' says Mr. Howells in his novel, "April Hopes," "were densely packed with people, mostly young girls dressed in a thousand enchanting shades and colors . . . They were like vast terraces of flowers to the swift glance, and here and there some brilliant parasol, spread to catch the sun on the higher ranks, was like a flaunting poppy, rising to the light. In front . . . stood the Class-day Tree, girded at ten or fifteen feet from the ground with a w r ide band of flowers . . . In the midst of the tumult the marshal flung his hat at the elm ; then the rush upon the tree took place, and the scramble for the flowers. . . . Yells, cries, and clappings of hands came from the other students and the spectators in the seats, in- voluntarily dying away almost to silence as some stronger or wilfuller aspirant held his own on the heads and shoulders of the others, or was stayed there by his friends among them till he could make sure of a handful of the flowers/' GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 35 At the southwest corner of Hollis Hall is Harvard Hall, and opposite Harvard stands Mass- achusetts, with the main entrance to the college grounds leading from the gate of brick and wrought- iron to the doors of University Hall across the quadrangle. University Hall, The first stone building in the college, was erected in 1815, on the spot, it is said, where Prof. Wig-' glesworth used to water his cow. It is built of Chelmsford granite, costing $65,000. Here were once the college chapel, constructed by Bulfinch, and the Commons or dining hall ; a little to the east was the college pig-pen. In University Hall were held Commencement exercises, and great men dined under its roof. President Monroe was enter- tained here July 7, 18 17, General Lafayette on August 25, 1824, and Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren on June 26, 1833. There are those who still remember the latter two, the one tall, gray-haired and gaunt, the other shorter, with Dutch features and reddish hair. Jackson, says an observer, seemed to regard the Latin oration of Mr. Bowen "with blank amaze- ment." In 1842 Commons were discontinued, and in 1867 the chapel was cut up into recitation rooms. 36 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. The offices of the president and secretary are on the second floor of the south entry, where informa- tion concerning the college may be obtained. Mr. Longfellow gave his first lecture on litera- ture and literary life at No. 3 University Hall. He wrote to a friend : " Miserable room, to begin with. Windows behind me and behind my audience, so that I could not see them nor they me. 1 had as lief lecture through a key-hole." At the south- west corner of Hoilis stands Harvard Hall, With steps on the south, and bell tower, built on the site of old Harvard Hall in 1765-66. In early times the west room was the chapel, the east room a dining hall, with the library over the former and a lecture room over the latter. The bell called students to prayers (at 6 a.m.) and many attempts were made to silence it; once by gunpowder, when the student, being detected, ran down the roof of Harvard and jumped across to Hoilis; in 1861 by a pail of tar, with which a student jumped from Hoilis to Harvard; and once more by a large turkey tied to the bell's tongue as a present for the janitor, but this worthy saw it in time to be able to ring the bell at the usual hour. During the Revo- lution Harvard Hall was occupied by the American Army, and the pork brought in by country people for the soldiers was stored here. In 18 17 Presi- GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 37 dent Monroe examined the library, then in the building. Harvard is now used for small, special libraries in History and in the Classics, and as a recitation hall. In 1693 the college voted that a student should be fined 20 shillings for having plum cake in chambers " as dishonorable to the college and not grateful to wise men." Freshmen, in early times, upon entering college, were assembled in Harvard Hall to hear the " Cus- toms." No Freshman could wear his hat in the college yard except in rain, snow or hail, or having both his hands full. No Freshman could speak to a Senior with his hat on. Freshmen were to go on errands for upper-classmen, except in study hours or after 9 in the evening, and must make no delay. These rules and many more were read aloud in chapel by a member of the Sophomore class. Opposite Harvard is Massachusetts Hall, Now used for recitations, completed in 1720 at a cost of 3500 pounds in Provincial currency, and the oldest college building now standing. It was for 150 years used as a dormitory. In 1776 bar- racks for the soldiers were here, and recitations were held in the court-house at Concord. The thickness of the walls and the beams in the ceiling can be seen by approaching the windows. The $8 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD " New Gate," as it has been familiarly called, was completed in 1890, the gift of Samuel Johnston, of Chicago, according to the Latin inscription cut in the stone. The brick and iron work are in harmony with the buildings near which it s f ands ; the round stones on the pillars came from York- shire. The tablets on the right and left walls of the gate are of special interest. We have now seen the greater part of Harvard. The few remaining buildings are hardly within the limits of a "walk about Harvard," and a note concerning each will be found at the end of this book. It may be pleasant here, as we leave the college grounds, to recall the words of Mr. W. D. Howells in his " Suburban Sketches " : " There is much good fortune in the world, but none better than being an undergraduate twenty years old, hale, handsome, fashionably dressed, with the whole promise of life before : it's a state of things to dis- arm even envy." We may now turn to the left, to Harvard Square, and from there go by car to Mount Auburn, past Mr. Longfellow's house, or reach the same points of interest by a walk including the old burying ground, Christ Church, the Annex and the Wash- ington Elm. Opposite the western entrance to the college yard stands the GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 39 First Parish Church, (Unitarian, Rev. Edward H. Hall, pastor), with the old burying ground at the right where lie Thomas Shepard, whose " soul-refreshing " ministry caused the college to be established near his church ; Stephen Daye, the first printer in this part of America, and many college presidents. The first work printed within the present limits of the United States was " The Freeman's Oath. Printed by S. Daye, 1639." This was on the face of a small sheet of paper. The first book, "The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into Eng- lish Metre," 1640, more familiarly known as the "Bay Psalm Book," is delightfully described in Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's "The Sabbath in Puritan New England." At this little press in Harvard Square American literature was born. Rev. Jesse Glover had engaged Daye in England to be his assistant, but, dying on the voyage out, the assis- tant managed the " printery " until his son, Mat- thew Daye, took up the work in 1647. The Widow Glover was not forgotten, for President Dunster, who sleeps near Stephen Daye, made her his wife in 1641. Next to the First Parish Church to the west is Christ Church, Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green : One seems to guard, and one to weep, The dead that lie between. — Holmes. JOTDE TO HARVARD. Christ Church was opened in 1761. with the Rev. East Apthorp as rector. The Connecticut militia re quartered here in June. 1775 : the pipes of the organ were melted into bullets. General and Mrs. Washington attended service in Christ Church on the last Sunday of 1775. The chime of thirteen bel> the gift of Harvard alumni when the church completed its first hundred years. A: this ne the tomb of a prominent Tory. Henry Vassall, under the church, was opened to receive the body of Darby Vassall, ninety-two years old. formerly his slave, and born in his house at Cambridge. The Washington Elm. Under which Washington is said to have drawn his sword on taking command of the American Army, July 3. 1775. stands before the Shepard Memorial lurch, at the end :-f Mason Street. The inscrip- tion was written by Longfellow. In this tree a lookout was built, and here Washington came day after da; :ch the British ships in the harbor and the fortifications ston. In the winter of 1776 the farmers, many with their own guns, were oped on the Common. They had the courage and endurao Captain Whittemore, who. when the •• regulars" passed through North Cambridge on the retreat from Concord that memorable day in April. 1775, ind a stone wall and picked the Redcoats until a builr~ shattered his cheek- GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 41 bone. Then the British rushed upon him and pounded his head witk their guns until they said, "We have killed the old rebel." Yet Captain Whittemore lived to see the country at peace with Great Britain, dying in 1793. On the southeast corner of Garden and Mason streets is the Harvard Annex (Fay House), Or the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, established in 1879 by Mr. Arthur Gilman. It has for its object the obtaining for women the best instruction given in Harvard. At the opening of the Annex there were twenty seven women instructed by Harvard professors, forty of whom offered their services. Now, in its thir- teenth year, there are two hundred women taught by seventy professors. The students come from all parts of the country ; from the Pacific coast and the Sandwich Islands. They board in the various Cambridge homes, and recite at Fay House. The enti ance examinations are the same as those at Harvard, and the Certificates given to the grad- uates state that the holders have performed the work required by Harvard College for its B. A. degree. The Certificates are awarded upon the recommendation of an Academic Board composed almost exclusively of Harvard professors. Mr. Gilman says: "The free use of the University Library is counted as our greatest privilege, apart 42 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. from the sen-ices of those men whose work has g en to Harvard College its fa: The en- dowment fund is now over $100,000, but mor needed. Professor Norton said in public: •• There is no opportunity for earthly immortality comparable to that presented to the person who should give a sufficient sum to place the An upon a proper financial basis." Mrs. Louis Aga ssu is the president of the society, and Miss Alice Longfellow one of the executive commit: ec Miss Helen Leah Reed of Boston, a graduate of the Harvard Annex, and winner of the Sargent prize in : - Airhough it is hard to tell just why the Washington Elm at Cambridge acts as a mag- net to draw around it educational institutions, it is erfectly true that within a stone's throw of the old tree there is a surprisingly large number of such establishments. A walk of a couple of minutes in one direction leads one to the fence enclosing the Harvard quadrangle. An even shorter walk in another direction brings one to the picturesque buildings of St. Johns Episcopal Theological School. The windows of Fay House, the home of the Harvard Annex, look down directly on the his- toric elm. and on each side of Fay House are two large, : id-fashioned dwellings, each now used as schools — one for boys, the other for girls. The latter of these. The Cambridge School, is under the directorship of Mr. Arthur Gilman. A: GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 43 by its advantages, not a few families from other states have taken up a residence of several years in Cambridge in order to place their daughters in The Cambridge School. As applications contin- ued to come from others who wished to send their daughters without going themselves to Cambridge to live, Mr. Gilman decided to build Margaret Winthrop Hall, where these young girls might be as comfortably situated as at home. Margaret Winthrop Hall, named in honor of the wife of John Winthrop, the founder of Boston, is a roomy house on Chauncy Street, colonial in general style, but modern in all its appointments. " Opposite Fay House is the Shepard Memorial Church, Founded in 1636. The present building was erected in 187 1 ; Rev. Alexander McKenzie, sec- retary of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, is the present pastor. The gilt cockerel on the spire was placed over the New Brick Church, Boston, in 172 1. Dr. Holmes, writing on the occasion of the twenty- fifth anniversary of Dr. McKenzie's ministry, says: "I can restore much that has long vanished with- out calling in the aid of an architect. The old yellow meetinghouse stands there in my mind's eye, with its square pews, its threatening sounding- board, its dripping stove funnel, and the familiar figures that filled the pews in my childhood — Judge 44 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. Winthrop; good, blind old Rev. Mr. Mellen ; the Miss Howes, ancient ladies, of whom I always thought when reading Goldsmith's < Madam Blaize.' . . . I feel as if I could put all these families back in their pews as a printer distributes his types in their boxes." In passing it may be said that the Botanic Garden Is on the northwest corner of Garden and Lin- naean streets, a short walk from the Washington Elm. In 1857 the present conservatory was built, Asa Gray having become Fisher professor of Natural History in 1842. The garden occupies about seven acres, and has more than 5000 spe- cies of flowering plants. The collection of cacti and orchids is very fine, and the flower gardens in summer are worthy a visit. Diagonally opposite (corner Bond and Garden streets) is the Astronomical Observatory ; The grounds only are open to visitors. The Ob- servatory was removed from Dana House in 1844, receiving in 1849 f rom E. B. Phillips $100,000. The work of the Observatory is preserved in its "Annals." The director is Edward C. Pickering. By the mutual consent of astronomers, the Kiel and Harvard Observatories have been selected as the centres for the prompt announcement of astro- nomical discoveries. About forty assistants take GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 45 part in the work here, with others at the various stations, from Blue Hill, near Boston, as far away as Arequipa, Peru. Mr. W. D. Howells, while editor of the Atlantic Monthly, lived on Concord Avenue (No. 37), near Bond Street, having moved from Berkeley Street, upon which Mr. John Fiske, the historian, has his home. From the Shepard Memorial Church, following Mason Street to Brattle, and turning to the right, / ■ /, we pass St. John's Memorial Chapel ara4 the c ) Cambridge Public Library. '4 SIPIXG GVI'uR TO HARVARD. Portraits Lirth and Death Ar: Bushrod Washington I 759-1829 George Washington 1 I799 Copy from Peale by Porumid George Washington 21799 J. Trumbull Charles Francis Adams iSc; W. M. Hunt Christopher Gore 175J J. Trumbull Thomas Palmer 1 745 182c G. S. Newton John Albion Andrew - D. Cobb George Bancroft 1S00-1S91 Richter James Grahame 1790-1S42 G. P. A. Healy Joseph Tuckerman : 778-1840 F. Alexander Ezekiel Hersey ; . v - . . . J. Greenwood Fisher Ames 175& G. Stewart Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar 1816-1895 F. H. Tompkins John Marshall 1-551835 Samuel Dexter 1 -:? 1S10 J. Frotbingham Robert Gould Shaw 1S37-1S63 W. Page Joseph Stevens Buckminster : - ; _- : 8 : : vf'm G. Stuart John McLean 176:- -; W. Dunlap Samuel Gilman 1791-1858 Alvan Fisher Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 Copy from G. D. Leslie by Cham- berlyn Samuel Eliot 1739-182C Copy f'mG. Stuart bv G.P.A.Healy John Gaspar Spurzheim : 776-1832 Alvan Fisher John Adams : 735-1826 J. Trumbull John Adams (in cour: [735-1826 J. S. Copley Benjamin Colman 1676-1747 . bert Gurdon Saltonstall iS=;6-: — Sir Richard Saltonstall 1 586-1658 Copy by C. Osgood Samuel Rogers C. Harcing rfi GOSSIPING GUIDE VO 11 YKV UtD , ToitLuts Birth ami IV. ul Thomas Hubbard 1702-1773 Charles Greeley Loring 1794-1867 Charles Devens 1820-1891 Benjamin Wadsworth 1669-1737 Charles Chauncy 1599-1672 Charles Chauncy [705-1787 John Lowell 1 769-1840 Edward Holyoke 1689-1769 John Winthrop 1587- 1649 John Winthrop 1587*1649 Thomas llollis ' 659-1 731 Samuel Cooper Thatcher 1785*1818 Joseph Story 1 779- 1845 John Lowell 1743-1802 Amos A. Lawrence 1814 -1886 James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 John Thornton Kirkland 1770-1S40 Mis. Nathaniel Appleton I701-I77I Thomas Wren Ward 1786 1858 Mrs. Thomas Boylston - 1 774 Nathaniel Appleton 16Q3 1784 Samuel Willaul 164O Nicholas Boylston 1716 1771 Edward Everett 1794-1865 Thomas Hancock 1703— 1764 Guido Bentivoglio 1 579-1 644 Samuel Cooper 1 7-5-1 783 Tyler Bigelow 1S01-1S05 Benjamin Thompson (Count 1 7 5 ; — 1 S 1 4 Rumford) 1 Aitists 1. s. Copley Fred'k P, Vinton Copy from Black* burn by Lazarus J. S. Copley Copy fin Van Pyek G. S. Newton Gilbert Stuart Eastman Johnson Anna Lea Menitt Copy PmG. Stuart by Whitfield 1. S. Copley W. Page J. S. Copley J. S. Copley J. S. Copley Bass Otis J. S. Copley Copy PmVan Dyke by J. Smybert J. S. Copley Copy from Keller- holer by W. Page HARVARD. Portr Nicholas Boylston George Whitetield James Walker John Pierce Thomas Boylston Francis \Y. P. Greenwood George Gordon rd Tyrrel Channing Cornelius Conway Fehon nuel Appleton Henry Ware Israel Munson Henry Flynt iam Stoughton Walter II isl Busts Ralph Waldo Emei James Russell Lowell Christopher Gore John Parker, Jr. George II ay ward John Farrar Charles Sui .:el Appleton Benjamin Bussey Charles R veil William Francis Bartlett D Pierce ph Story John Thornton Kirkland Josiah Quincy Jared Sparks Birth and Death I7I6-I771 1794 -1S49 I~2! -1S60 1S56 7-1862 I766- 1 764-1845 7-1844 1676-1760 2-1701 1S23-1S79 Birth and Death 1S9I 1S63 l8ll- I 766 1S42 51864 1S4C 1S49 1779 1772 17S9-1S66 Artists . S Copley W. Hunt E. Mooney I. S. Copley J. H. Hay ward C. Harding G. P. A. Healy J. Ames G. S. Newton C. Harding R. Hinck'- .tors D. C. French II. I Miss L. Lander H. Po R, >. ( rreenough H. Powers I". A. Br:.: II. I ireenough S. V. Clevenger D. C. French P. C. French T. A. Carew W. \V. Story 7 A. Carew T. Crawford H. Powers Washington Elm. 80 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD, Busts Edward Everett James Walker Cornelius Conway Felton Henry \V Longfellow John Gorham Palfrey Birth and I )cath i 794- 1865 1 794- 1874 1807-1862 1807-1882 1 796- 1 88 1 Sculptors S. V. Clevenger, fin- ished by II. Powers II. Dexter II. Dexter T, Brock (Bass-relief) Edward Everett James Walker Edward A. Wild CLOISTER 1 794- 1 865 H. Powers (statue) 1 794- 1874 Efronze bust 1825-1891 Memorial tablet St. Christopher C. P. Cranch OVERSEERS ROOM. Portraits Birth and Death Artists Charles William Eliot 1834- W. Page George Erisbie Hoar 1826- Ered'k P. Vinton Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1822-1894 William II. Chase Thomas Ilollis I°59-I73 l Samuel Gilman 179I-1858 Earl Percy -1817 lames Walker 1 794- 1 S 74 Crayon by Cheney James Martineau 1S05- Engraving after Windows in Memorial Hall. There are eighteen large side windows in Memorial Hall, nine on each side; fifteen of these are memorial designs in stained glass, The donors, the designers, and the subjects of Shepard Chutch. GOSSIPING (.1 [DE TO H \K\ A.RD. these windows, beginning at the left on entering from the transept and passing round the hall, are i i ill'. SOU ni sim;. i. Unfilled. j. Given by Class of 1859s designed by John La Farge, uuli Henry Hobson Richardson) a member of the class. "Cornelia, the Mother of the Gracchi," at the moment when calling hei two sons, Tiberius and Cains, to her side, she said to the noble Roman lady who had been boastfully displaying her numerous ornaments, "These are my jewels," — words which appear in the original Latin below the panel showing Cornelia with her two boys facing the reclining figure of th e Roman lady in the other panel. 'The idea typified is that llai- vard may also point to her sons who fell in the Civil War and Say "These are my jewels." 3. Given by the family of the late Reai -Admiral Charles Henry Davis, U. S. N., of the Class of 1S25, in memory of his achievements In the Civil War as fleet captain of the naval expedition at Port Royal and as commander of the Mississippi flotilla which captured Fort Pillow and Memphis and there des- troyed the rebel fleet in 1862. Designed by Holliday, made in London. The energy and daring of Davis as a naval comman- der are indicated by the selection of Christopher Columbus and the great English admiral, Robert Blake, of the Common- wraith, as the figures for the panels of the window. These two famous seamen are represented standing on the quarter-decks of their flag ships. 4. Given by Class of 1844; designed by H. Holliday. Represents Dante and Chaucer. 'Hie window was made in London. 5. Given by the Class of 1 S 5 7 ; designed by La Farge. Sir Philip Sidney and Kpaminondas, representing the spirit of chivalry and the spirit of patriotism. Below, the dying Sir Philip Christ Churcl 84 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. is shown giving the flask of wine to the wounded soldier at the battle of Zutphen,with the immortal words, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine," and the youthful Grecian warricr is receiv- ing his buckler from his mother with the heroic injunction, "Return with thy shield or on it.' " 6. Given by Class of i860; designed by John La Farge. A stirring battle scene of ancient times — a young knight in armor leading a headlong charge up a declivity against the hidden foe, typical of the daring spirit of the Seniors of 1S60, who threw aside their text-books at the first call to arms and hastened to the battlefield in defence of the Union. Beneath this window hangs a portrait of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, a member of the class, who was killed at the assault of Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863, upon the parapet of the work, at the head of his black regiment which led the advance in that fiery charge. 7. Given by Class of 1877; designed by W. McPherson of Boston. Representing the great Emperor Charlemagne and Sir Thomas More. 8. Given by Class of 1854. Designed by Frederick Crowninshield of Boston. Representing Sophocles and Shakes- peare. 9. Unfilled. THE NORTH SIDE. 10. Given by Cbss of 1875. The "French Discoverers' Window." La Salle, with the coat-of-arms of France in the space below, and Marquette, with the seal of the Society of Jesus, to which he belonged, underneath; typifying the spirit of adventure and religious zeal which so strikingly marked the early French explorers of the Great West. The window, was designed by Charles E. Mills, of Boston, after a suggestion o the late historian, Francis Parkman. The likenesses of La Salle and Marquette, furnished by him through correspondence with French historiographers, were carefully followed. The /ft ^mm^m SO GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. window is the only one in the hall in which no opalescent glass is used. ii. Unfilled. 12. Given by the Class of 1861; designed by Frank D. Millet, of New York. It represents a young mediaeval student and a red-cross crusader, under which are respectively depicted a scene in a class-room of the middle ages and a mailed knight charging, lance in rest, on the foe. 13. Given by Class of 1858. John Hampden and Leonidas, as typical of the heroism which springs from love of country and singleness of purpose. Under the figures are the follow- ing inscriptions, from the writings of James Jackson Lowell and Henry Lyman Patten, heroic and lamented members of the class who died in the Civil War: ''Died for the cause of civilization and law, and the self-restrained freedom which is j-heir result;" "As for the chances of life or death, neither is welcome without honor or duty, — either is welcome in the path of honor and duty." 14. ' Given by Class of 1863; designed by Frederic Crown- inshield, of Boston. The "Parting of Hector from Andromache and Astyanax" on the causeway, outside the Scaean gates, leading down to the plain of Troy, with the river Scamander winding through it in the background to the Hellespont, and on the horizon a glimpse of the blue /Egean sea, and the mountains of Samothrace and Imbros, 15. Given by Class of 1880; designed by John La Farge, of New York. Virgil in a historical costume and characteristic attitude, and Homer in drapery arranged like that of a son of Jove, in reference to his uncertain but divine origin, and his being the fountain and type of all classical poetry. 16. Given by Class of 1879; designed by Frederic Crownin- shield, of Boston. Pericles standing on the Bema at Athens addressing the Athenian people, and Leonardo da Vinci, as a youth, in the streets of Florence. Episcopal Theological School. Rg 1 1 B 17. Given by Class of S rank P. Millet, N ■ n ork. I^hn Eliot, "the apostle to the I and Or. >.rren of the C is chairman of the committee that adopted the Suffolk R t Warren i* he battle of Banket Hill, musket in hand, acting volunteer, although he held the commission of a major-general. Beta imittee at which lb and adopted, and Eliot as preachi: ftg ap of [ndil s Given by Class 183 Big ird F. Sim- mon-. N ! and the night before the batth S . ad of the .inn of the North and the South at th the Civil War. The noble 5, after he had d through ny*S lines at the risk of his life to find his old antagonist and effect a reconciliation with him are at the base of the window in Gi 11 rivalry now and h after musl he only in The visitor to Memorial Hall will he amply repaid for the lime spenl in a careful examination of the beautiful and verv intei marble^ in this noble hall m Me than a c 1 Mount Auburn Gateway. Charles Sumner's Grave, Mount Auburn GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 91 Index. Agassiz, Alexander Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Agassiz's Grave Agassiz Museum Appleton Chapel Apthorp, Rev. East Art Museum Astronomical Observatory Austin Hall Beck Hall Blaschka Glass Flowers Boylston Hall Botanic Garden Brooks, Phillips Cambridge, Early History of Cambridge, to Reach Cambridge City Hall Carey Building Cheesehahteaumuck Caleb Christ Church Christ Church, View of Claverly Hall . . - Class Day Tree . College Dormitories Con ant Hall Colonial Club Craigie House Ckaigie House, View of Dane Hall . Dana House Dana Street Divinity Hall . , Divinity School Library . Dormitories, College Early History of Cambridge 18-26 26 42 54 26 18 40 64 44 28 12 26 15 44 68 9 11 11 27 10 39 83 62 34 62 61 17 46 46 13 17 12 25 26 62 92 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD Eliot, Charles W. Elmwood Elm wood, View of Elmwood, View of Interior Emerson, Ralph Waldo Episcopal Theological School Episcopal Theological School, Vi Everett Edward Felton Hall .... First Parish Church Fiske, Dr. John Fogg Art Museum Gateway, Harvard, Main Gateway, View of Mt. Auburn, Gateway Tablets . Gateway, Von Meyer Gilman, Arthur Gore Hall Governor Russell House Gray's Hall .... Gymnasium .... Harvard Annex Harvard Hall Harvard Yard, View- of . Harvard Square, 1756 . Harvard University . Hemenway Gymnasium Higginson, T. W. ... Higginson, T. W., View of House Holmes Field Holmes House Holmes House, View of Holmes, Rev. Ariel Holmes on Lowell Holden Chapel Hollis Hall Holworthy Hall . Howells, William D. Indian College Jarvis Field .... Jefferson Physical Laboratory John Harvard Statue 10 48 50 48 32 45 87 32 24 39 45 64 85 89 75-76 20 40 14 48 14 24 41 36 65 71 70 29 64 69 27 67 24 28 55 32 3i 30 45 14 27 30 20 GOSSIPING GUIDE TO HARVARD. 93 John Harvard Statue, View of Kirkland, President John T. Lawrence Scientific School Library of College . Longfellow's Daughters Longfellow House Longfellow House View of . 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