MEMORIAL EXERCISES IN DELTA

The Memorial Society will celebrate the 307th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard tomorrow morning at 8.30 o'clock. A brief meeting, which will consist of a short address and the singing of "Fair Harvard," led by several members of the University Glee Club, will be held in the Delta, in front of the statue of the founder of the University. After these exercises the meeting will adjourn to the Chapel where the Reverend C. W. Gilkey '03 will make an address appropriate to the occasion.

Until recently no authentic record of the date of John Harvard's birth had ever been discovered. However, the following entry, which appears in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, led historians, upon the occasion of the 300th celebration of his birth, to fix November 26 as his rightful birthday. The entry,--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt. a Butcher,"--was made in accordance with the custom of the church that required baptism on the third day after birth; accordingly November 26 has been fixed as the day to honor his birth.