HARUSPICES 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY 



adopted journalism After making 

 several translations and adapta 

 tions of French and Spanisli 

 dramas, he produced Los Amante.^ 

 de Teruel (TeruePs Lovers) in 1837, 

 and leaped into popularity. A later 

 success was achieved in 1845 with 

 La Jura en Santa Gadea. He pub 

 lished critical editions of Calderon 

 and others, and Cuentos y Fabulas 

 (Stories and Fables) in 1861. He 

 died at Madrid, Aug. 2, 1880. 



Haruspices. In ancient Rome, 

 diviners or soothsayers who drew 

 omens from examination of the 

 entrails of slaughtered animals 

 They also observed the manner in 

 which the victim went to its death, 

 the character of the flames in which 

 it was consumed, and of the meal, 

 wine, etc., used in the sacrifice . 

 and suggested methods of pro 

 pitiating the divine wrath after the 

 occurrence of prodigies and thun 

 derstorms. The emperor Claudius 

 formed them into a college which 

 existed until the 5th century. 



Harvard. Lofty peak of the 

 Rocky Mts., in Lake co., Colorado, 

 U.S.A. One of the College peaks, 

 it attains an elevation of 14,376 ft. 

 above the level of the sea. It is 

 about 110 m. S.W. of Denver. 



Harvard, JOHN (1607-38). One 

 of the founders of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. Born in Southwark, London, 

 S.E., he was a son of Robert Har 

 vard (d. 1625), a prosperous but- 

 cher, was baptized in S. Saviour's. 

 Nov. 29, 1607, and educated at the 

 local grammar school and at Em- 

 manuel College, Cambridge. He 

 was married, April 19, 1636, at 

 South Mailing, to Anne Sadler, of 

 Ringmer, Sussex. In 1637 he went 

 to America, was admitted, Aug. 6. 

 a townsman of Charlestown, Mass ; 

 and became second minister of the 

 church there. Dying Sept. 14, 

 1638, he left his books (all but one 

 of which were destroyed by fire 

 in 1764) and half of his estate to 

 a college which had been chartered 

 in 1636 in the hamlet of New 

 Towne, which was renamed Cam- 

 bridge. The college was named 

 Harvard College. 



In 1638 a granite obelisk was 

 erected to Harvard's memory at 

 Charlestown ; in 1904 a memorial 

 tablet was placed in Emmanuel 

 College ; in 1905 the chapel of S. 

 John the Divine, in S. Saviour's 

 was restored by Harvard men and 

 renamed Harvard Memorial Chapel 

 Harvard's mother, Katherine 

 Rogers, was a native of Stratford 

 on- A von, and, it is suggested, was- 

 introduced to his father by Shake 

 speare. Harvard House, Stratford 

 on-Avon, built by the father oJ 

 Katherine Rogers, was restored at 

 the expense of Edward Morris, of 

 Chicago, and opened Oct. 6, 1909 



Harvard House, Stratford-on-Avon, 



built bv Harvard's grandfather, and 



-estored in 1909 



as a rendezvous 101 Americans 

 visiting England, and a repository 

 of records, relics, etc., of the Eliza- 

 bethan period. See John Harvard 

 and His Times, H. C. Shelley, 1907 



Harvard University. Senior 

 university of the U.S.A. It was 

 founded at Cambridge, Mass., just 

 outside Boston, by some Cam- 

 bridge graduates who gave it the 

 name of their own seat of learning, 

 but when some money was left to 

 it by John Harvard the present 

 name was taken. In 1636 the 

 colony of Massachusetts took the 

 first steps to set it on foot, and in 



1637 the first build- 



ing was opened 

 A board of over- ! 

 seers was named 

 while in 1650 the 

 college was made 

 into a corporation 

 Nathaniel Eaton 

 was the first 

 president. 



Various changes 

 have been made in 

 the constitution, 

 but the two bodies, 

 overseers and cor- 

 p o r a t i o n. i.e. 



president, fellows, and others, 

 have remained, the changes having 

 been in the direction of widening 

 the circle of those who may be 

 elected as overseers. Similarly the 

 college, which began its career on 

 somewhat narrow sectarian lines 

 has been gradually broadened until 

 religious tests are non-existent. 



The medical school dates from 

 1782, and the law school from 

 1817, while in 1825 arrangements 

 were made to educate those who 

 did not wish to work for a degree, 

 but to prepare themselves by 

 some particular study for scientific 

 or business life. The modern 

 prosperity of the university was 

 attained under the presidency 

 (1869-1909) of C. W Eliot. He 

 was succeeded by A. L. Lowell. 

 The university consists of the 

 original Harvard College, the 

 school of arts and sciences, and 

 the school of business administra- 

 tion founded in 1908, these being 

 in the faculty of arts and sciences. 

 There are also the divinity school, 

 to which Andover Theological Col- 

 lege is affiliated ; the law school, 

 and the medical school, with the 

 dental school set up in 1867 

 There are schools of engineering, 

 mining, and applied science. 



Some of the buildings, e.g. the 

 medical school, are in Boston, 

 while elsewhere are various scien- 

 tific establishments, e.g. a school 

 of agriculture at Jamaica Plain, 

 an arboretum at W. Roxbury, and 

 meteorological stations in the 

 Andes The school of forestry 

 has a small forest at Petersham 



Harvard University. Austin Hall, seat of the law 

 school founded in 1817. Top, right, Randolph Hall 



The university has 

 several large 

 libraries, an ob- 

 servatory, and 

 various museums. 

 It issues publica- 

 tions of various 

 kinds, and there 

 are numerous 

 social and sporting 

 activities. The 

 university pro- 

 vides university 

 extension courses. 



