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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
3
The Right Rev. William Neilson McVickar, bishop of Rhode Island, died at his summer home in Beverly after a lingering illness. Following an operation last year his health declined, and a severe cold three weeks ago developed into pneumonia.
The ailing bishop died after long illness attended by his sister Miss E C McVickar. A native New Yorker, he rose to prominence in inter church work and marriage reform. He studied at Columbia and General Theological. served Holy Trinity Harlem Philadelphia and Rhode Island, becoming bishop in 1903.
A brief note details a new embroidery process to be featured in next Sunday's Post. The design shown transfers to material with only soap and water, with a corset cover design planned for the following Sunday.
Before leaving the White House the President called in all newspaper men covering the executive offices and wished them a pleasant summer, hoping to see them again in the fall.
Roosevelt arrives at Harvard amid a cheering crowd after greeting Harvard Corporation secretary Jerome D. Greene and Alumni Association secretary Edgar H. Wells. A police cordon safeguards the party as Roosevelt dismisses photographers and departs in a limousine toward Commonwealth avenue.
President Taft and ex President Roosevelt visit Boston with Taft staying briefly in town while Roosevelt spends the day at Harvard. Roosevelt greets alumni at the Union and Alpha Delta Phi before dining with classmates at the Algonquin Club. He then returns to President Lowell's house for the night as plans unfold for further engagements.
Hermann Hagedorn writes of the Harvard Seven voyage in the triennial verses. The poem follows a battle at sea, honoring nineteen dead sailors and the crew’s steadfast courage, culminating in the Lord’s judgment and the ship named Harvard Seven.
At 10 a.m. officers, invited guests, long-standing graduates and degree candidates form in the yard to march to Sanders Theatre for commencement. At 2:15 p.m. a procession to Memorial Hall for the Harvard Alumni Association meeting presided by Colonel Roosevelt, with ballotings for overseers and directors in Massachusetts Hall.
Colonel Roosevelt and President Emeritus Eliot are nominees. At 10 o'clock Mr Roosevelt will join in the procession of those upon whom honorary degrees will be conferred and march to Sanders Theatre. In the afternoon he will preside at the Alumni Association meeting at Memorial Hall. Tonight he will be the guest of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge at his Nahant country home.
The Harvard class of 1880, Theodore Roosevelt member though not present, enjoyed a day at the Hoosick-Whissick Club Ponkapoag with golf tennis and a dinner at the Algonquin Club. Notables at the event included Judge William Andrews and Dr. Henry C. Baldwin among others.
Everett Betts of 56 Austin street Cambridge was arraigned in Cambridge district court on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct on a Boston Elevated car. He was found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined $25. the drunkenness complaint was filed. One day is long enough to be troubled with cough. Adamson's Balsam cures.
The Alumni Association of the Harvard Divinity School held its annual meeting in Divinity Chapel and dedicated a memorial tablet for Rev. John White Chadwick 1840 1904. Rev. William C Gannett spoke on The Heart's Side in the Rising Religion. A social gathering and dinner followed at the Harvard Union.
Yale defeats Harvard 9 to 9 in a dramatic late rally as Lanigan Potter Gardner and McLaughlin star. Hicks struggles with control and Harvard squanders early chances while Yale surges from behind in the eighth and ninth to force a decisive finish.
The 11th annual Chase-Chace family reunion was held in West Newbury Town Hall today with attendance exceeding two hundred. Family members gathered for the reunion event.
Teamsters of Greater Boston are invited to identify their teams in a full page of pictures in next Sundays Post. Each driver who finds his team will receive a $5 gold piece courtesy of the Sun Day Post.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul launches a memorial fund for Archbishop Williams to buy a country estate for poor children's summer vacations and to serve as a convalescent home for poor women. The Williams Farm will honor the gentle prelate, with subscriptions sent to treasurer George R. Regan in Boston.
At Winthrop last night the Massachusetts Medical Society entertained 150 delegates from the National Eclectic Medical Society, which held its annual convention in the city. Dr. Pitt E. Howe of Dorchester presided at the Young's Hotel banquet.
The Rev. William Hurlin a veteran Baptist minister of New England died at his home in Antrim New Hampshire this evening aged 96 or 97. He was one of the oldest and most widely known clergymen in the region.
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