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...Watertown, June, 1775, resolved that the Harvard Library and philosophical apparatus be removed to Andover. A meeting of the Corporation in July voted that a public Commencement was impracticable, and that degrees be conferred by a general diploma; and soon after the Overseers voted to remove the College to Concord, having found, on examination, that one hundred and twenty-five students could be boarded in that place. Part of the library and apparatus were taken to Concord, and the students endured the inconveniences of the place as best they could for fourteen months...
...PAUL'S SCHOOL, Concord, celebrates its anniversary the 27th inst. The programme of the day is as follows...
...Everett, being called upon to reply to the first toast of the evening, "Alma Mater," remarked that he was less in the confidence of the Old Lady than many other persons high in office; a distinction which had appeared to be recognized by the managers of the Centennial at Concord, who had provided carriages for the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College, and requested himself and his colleagues to follow on foot! However, the College had done its going to Concord in 1776, when it moved there bodily to allow the Revolutionary army to occupy Hollis and Stoughton as barracks...
APROPOS to the "Centennial," the Boston Post gives us "Veni, vidi, vici, - I came, I saw, I Concord...
...Lexington and Concord Centennial Celebration went off on Monday with great eclat. The pageantry was most imposing, the crowd immense; and it is hoped that by careful scrutiny of the historical relics, by the bleak march over the hills, and by elbowing a way through sixty thousand pairs of shoulders (and we passed some of them twice), we have generated sufficient patriotism to support a reasonable amount of inflation and force-bill. It is useless for us to attempt even a short description of what was to be seen, when we consider that there are fourteen daily newspapers published within...