1961-02-04 — Page 12

JAK

and

GEORGE

get down to

facts on Kennedy Day plus 15

THE aldermanic Bos- ton cop, name of O'Reilly, regarded me with acute suspicion.

I now know why, though his swiftly bristling response to simple request for information and direction was Jittle of- pulting at the time. After all. Boston has a reputation for be- ing the politest city in tho U.S.A.

"How do I get to 100 Irving- street?" I asked.

"You don't, friend. Not to- day," replied officer O'Relly.

I explained that I merely wished to call on Arthur M. Schlesinger Jun., professor ur history at Harvard University, Pulitzer prizewinner. author, lecturer, father of four and mighty brain.

"Not today, friend," raid

the cop. "The

brain's

ready

n!-

go

e o in pa zy.

Name of Ken- medy,"

Well, it a wise man who knows when

be licked. If

Pre

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1961.

SATURDAY MAGAZINE

The statue of John Harvard-they had to choose a model because they didn't know what he looked like..

JOHN HARVARD

HAA

£779-and our man called Harvard

really started something...

Schlesinger,

the

Only one volume remains, and they let mo look at it under the Matthews, jealous eye of Tun Puincy-born Information officer in the Houghton Library of Rare Honies.

Natty little nutshell by John Downame - briefly entitled: "The Christian Warfare Against the Devil, World and Flesh Wherein is Described their Nature, the maner of their fight, and meanes to obtalag victorye."

Yes, Harvard has done well by our Johnny, the butcher's son from London Bridge. A symbolie statue. of him, con- fortably seated with a book on bis bronze right knee, gazes re- flectively at the withering elms from under Harvard's triple flag-poles outside University Hall.

And it la none of our business that the statue of John Harvard In not a statue of John Harvard at all.

Nobody knew what the guy looked like, 50, exime 1884, they borrowed à Congressman call- ed Sherman Hear to act us model. And I'll bet he was 24 Democrat

The name .........

Schlesinger

Professor shepherded the round the gracious Georgian plies of Har- vard's red brick. And We talked about John F. Kennedy (S.B. cum laude 1940, LLD 1950)-the sixth of his Presi- dental line to spring from Where cloistered parts.

There was the Kennedy name and photograph in the rich red enrolment book for Winthrop House sandwiched between George Kennedy of Montana and

Bergure Kenney of New

"In-

Mexico.

There was Kennedy's tended Vocation: Low."

highly appreciated by colonists of the time that they named their college after him. There was the information that graduate Kennedy had Нелсе Harvard University. once willca a sentor thesis John Kennedy's alma mater about our Mr Baldwin, entitled and founder of the Democralle when England Slept."

dent John Kennedy was visiting Eliza sniffed at R. but 1 George Bundy (Special Asats- And if the following account parson, and a kind of lailer-day bralna-feast. with

hadn't the nerve to ask if Mr Prolustur

1ant for Security Affairs), und is some way oft the Pulitzer Pilgrks to the savage deserts Whiting would wait.

Kennedy had done likewise.

course, brother, Robert level, the fault is not that Kennedy (Attorney-General). Professor Schlesinger,

But I made It into Cambridge, Just across the frozen Charles

River, two days later, and may The brains

now claim that I have eaten

ham and eggs at the same tablo

as the President of the U.S.A..

Wh would

chatted to the same charming British

hostess, admired the sam house sweet peas, and

black Rame

1ke

Eliza.

stroked poodle-one

reporter le Proteser Schlesinger?

Kinernat

visiting

گردیم

And if Harvard is going to

run America, I felt I would The estate like to know a little more about it from its history professor, After all, we started die place!

of of America.

.

Arriving in Charlestown, Mas- sachusetts, he became second minister of the church there.

But not for long.

O. Sep-

Best of all, there was written

Mark you, they might have evidence that the new President done even better had not some of the United States had once unknown politician short been a member of the Hasty changed them оп John Pulding institute.

Hasty But they do not cat Harvard's money.

Pudding at Harvard any more. Just across the way, on Mas- Hazen's sachusetts-avenue, is

the ham- Lunch Bar-where

are burgers

excellent, and They where the man sold histor

was strictly for the birds.

all it depreciation nowadays, 1 believe.

It started out from Charles Harvard, the "seminary in the

14. 1038, poor John 19 at £779 175. 20, but by wilderness." can be sail to owe fember

of consumption the time it got across the river to Bob Harvard's Harvard died My crudite host had 10 mutter its origins

Cambridge, the cash had near London and left all his books and half shop a few lines of Longfellow to butcher help him ranember the exart Bridge, where the proprietor's his estate to a "hole and col- thrunk to £375 3s. 08. date of the Boston Tea Party, Son, young Johnny Harvard, used ledge which had been started but this was probably done out to help cut with the chores un- two years previously in a hom-

Even the literary part of the til such time as his mother died let called New Towne-later to of politeness.

Fire legacy ran into 1 luck. and left him a pub-the Queen's be changed to Cambridge,

broke out during a snowstorm A stroll acress

But the campus Head at Southwark.

January 24, Twelve freshmen, ene master, on the night of with him on a bright and froly John, educated

me College, Cambridge, had a mind one frame house and two cow- 1764, and John Harvard's books morning quickly convinced that this chirrupy Httle man in above pork chops and pints. In yards appear to have been the got burned to cinders on account he up original school complement, and of the citizens had left the fire the bow tie certainly know his 1837, at the age of 30

ped and became a Puritan, Me Harvard- 134 neres of It.

John Harvard's legacy was

Well it seems the new locuk- boy President, a graduate and oversere of Harvard University, Incidentally, the newest and is surrounding himself with

book most prominent

of the Harvard brains in the

sweep- Professor's extensive Jilary clean Democratic administration

MeN: mara un men like Robert lying all too conspicuously

Douglas an occasional table in the draw. (Defence)

Dill ing room of the shingle-fronted (Treasury), Edward Day (Post

entitled

David The master-General).

(Director of Budget), Archibald Cox (Solicitor-General),

mansion--was Thermonuclear War, by an au- thor named Kahn.

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