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NOTES.SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2.First Parish Church (Unitarian). 10.30 a. m., Rev. Edward H. Hall, pastor...
Last evening a spiritualistic seance was held in Lyceum Hall, which was highly successful except that the pastor of a certain Cambridge parish shrewdly guessed the way the feats were performed and gave the whole thing away in a manner exceedingly painful for the somewhat corpulent medium...
...even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have...
Harvard College was founded in September, 1636, and its first class of nine members graduated in 1842. Its 200th anniversary was duly observed. September 8, 1836. Appropriate services were held in the First Parish Church. A large tent was erected south-east of Gore Hall, on the rising slope, where, after the services in the church, the large assembly of the alumni of the college sat down to dinner...
Active committees have been appointed by both the Overseers of the college and by the Shepard and First Parish churches. A fitting observance of the occasion is anticipated, one that will commemorate the past, and give encouragement for the future...