HOLMES MEMORIAL MEETING

A meeting to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes '09 will be held this evening in Sanders Theatre at 7.45 o'clock. These exercises, given under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society, are held at this time rather than on August 29, the exact anniversary, for convenience.

President Eliot will preside and introduce the following speakers: Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson '66, Dr. David Williams Cheever '52, an assistant under Dr. Holmes while he was a professor in the Harvard Medical School; Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, h.'99, of Cambridge. In addition to these speakers, Mr. C. T. Copeland '82, of the English Department, will read "The Last Leaf" and "The Chambered nautilus," two of Mr. Holmes's most famous poems. The Harvard Glee Club and the Cambridge Latin School Orchestra will furnish the music. The Glee club will sing "Union and Liberty," music by Francis Boott '31, and words by Dr. Holmes, and "Angel of Peace," with words written by Dr. Homes for the National Peace Festival.

Dr. Homes was graduated from Harvard in 1829, then studied law and later medicine, taking a doctor's degree in 1836 after several years' work in European hospitals. In 1838 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth, and in 1847 was called to take the same chair in the Medical School, which position he held for thirty-five years. Dr. Holmes was not only a doctor, but a good photographer, somewhat of an artist, a far famed poet, wit, and man of letters. His works are familiar to all, the best known being "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "Elsie Venner," and many short poems.

A large and distinguished audience will be present at the exercises to do honor to Dr. Holmes. Among the special guests are the following, distinguished in literature: Julia Ward Howe, Robert Grant '73, G. W. Cable, Florence Earle Coates of Philadelphia, Professor Arlo Bates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury h.'93 of Yale, and many leading professors of this vicinity who studed in the Medical School under Dr. Holmes.

A limited number of reserved seat tickets for invited guests and members of the Cambridge Historical Society have been issued. These tickets are not good after 7.35 o'clock. The public are cordially invited and will be admitted without tickets to the whole of the second and to certain sections in the first balcony, and to all seats in the theatre not occupied at 7.35 o'clock. Persons holding tickets will be admitted only at the Cambridge street entrance, and those not holding tickets only through the entrance on Kirkland street. The doors will be opened at 7.15 music will commence at 7.20 and the addresses will begin promptly at 7.45 o'clock.