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President Eliot has accepted the invitation of Mayor Fitzgerald to deliver the annual Fourth of July oration in Boston this summer. The custom of delivering an annual civic oration commemorating a national event was started March 5, 1783, the anniversary of the Boston massacre, when James Lovell was the speaker. Later the occasion was changed to July 4 to commemorate in addition the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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