HALL AT HARVARD 

 IS 200 YEARS Oty) 



Dinner Dec. 10 to Celebrate 

 Massachusetts's 2d Centennial 



Massachusetts Hall at Harvard, the 

 second oldest college building in th- 

 eountry, is 200 years old month, and 

 on Friday, Dec. 10, Its second centennial 

 will bo celebrated at a dinner to be hi.-ifl I 

 In the. building Itself by the Harvasd 1 

 Memorial Society. 



Vive-President-elect CoolidBi will be 

 present to represent the tnrimonwealtj, 

 the building having been originally con- 

 structed from a grant •>-ade by the 

 Province of Massachusetts. President 

 Lowell will also speak, and Judge F.ob 

 ort Grant, president of *he Harvard 

 beard of overseers and avihor of "The 

 Chippendales" and other novrls, will 

 rend a poem composed ft - 'h«» occasion 

 The toastmaster will be Hon Wil,->n I 

 Caleb Lorlng, '72, who roomed in thr 

 hall as a student. 



All men who roomed in MassTChusetta 

 Hall when it was a dormUorv. prior to 

 1S70, are especially invited to subscr'oe 

 to the dinner, as are all presort and f'j.-- 

 mer members of the Harvard Memorial 

 Society, at ?3 per person. Othv gradu- 

 ates may also subscribe by ap"lyin» to 

 Hamilton MacFadden, 18 Francis ava- 

 nue, Cambridge. 



tn 1720, when Massachusetts Hall was 

 built, the graduating class of the col- ' 

 lege numbered 37, Cambridge was only 

 a village, and thero was no bridge to 

 connect it with the town of Boston. Th,a I 

 only oollego building in the United 

 States (which is older than Massachu- i 

 setts Rail is the main building of Will- 

 iam anfi Mary College in Virginia, which 

 was put up in 1693 and has been thrice 

 burned and rebuilt on the old walls. 



