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but names-Edward Paige, Thomas Langham and Mr. Ven-and nothing further, not even the classes to which they belonged, is known of them.1

In addition to the nine names occurring above, three others are disclosed in the early Steward's account books as quoted by Sibley:2 Samuel Willis of 1653, Bennett of 1659, and Nathaniel Saltonstall of 1659.

Just when the fellow-commoner disappeared is hard to say; probably he did not long survive the time of the Vassalls, for Paine Wingate of the Class of 1759 (at one time the oldest living graduate of the College) wrote to Benjamin Peirce in 1831 that fellow-commoners were unknown in his time.3

A last glimpse of the fellow-commoner and his gifts to the College is found in a letter from Professor Levi Hedge to the Treasurer of Harvard College, February 18, 1828, in the collection of inventories of 1828 already referred to. He writes:

I have also in my possession a silver tankard, the history of which is the following. In the early times of the College, the sons of such gentlemen as claimed privileges of nobility, were distinguished from the other students by the privilege of dieting at the Tutors' table in the Commons Hall. When these young gentlemen left the College, it was common for them to make some present to the gentlemen, as a body, in whose society they had been thus distinguished; and in this way several tankards and other articles of plate had been collected as ornaments for the Tutors' table. On the discontinuance of this distinction, the articles collected were distributed among the officers, to be used as common property by them and their successors. When I was elected Tutor, in January 1795, I found the tankard and book above named in the chamber of my predThe tankard was damaged by long use, it was bruised in sundry places, and the lid was off. I have had it repaired by a silver smith, so that it is in a better state now than when it came into my

ecessors.

1 The name of Benjamin Browne is found in the list of temporary students printed in our Publications, xvii. 271–285, but not the names of Edward Paige, Langham, or Ven. Mr. Matthews tells me that the last three names were in his manuscript list but were excluded from the printed list because the facts in regard to them were so obscure.

2 Harvard Graduates, i. 549, 573. I am indebted to Mr. S. F. Batchelder for calling my attention to these references.

• Peirce, History of Harvard University, pp. 313-314.

hands. I have regarded both the tankard and the book as departmental property, to be transmitted to my successor in office.1

Mr. JOHN W. FARWELL exhibited the engraved copper plate from which the Harvard College book-plates were printed about 1840.

Mr. ALFRED C. POTTER exhibited the book-plates of three Harvard clubs, two of them long extinct and practically forgotten, the other still in existence. The earliest of these clubs was "The Knights of the Order of the Pudding Stick." Its book-plate is a simple printed label, with the name Daniel Parkman (H. C. 1813) written on it as donor and the date 1811. Of this club Mr. Potter has been unable to find any mention," but is inclined to

1 In the University Archives (UAI 3.200) is a copy of notes relating to the Harris salt and other pieces of silver, written by Librarian Thaddeus W. Harris in 1847 for President Everett's use at the Commencement dinner of that year; also typewritten notes on the College silver by J. H. Buck, an Englishman in the employ of the Gorham Manufacturing Co., made in 1886. An illustrated article by Mr. Buck was printed in The Curio, September, 1887, i. 20–22.

Thomas's History of Printing in America (ed. 1874, ii. 383–390) gives various documents connected with the lawsuits between the Glover heirs and President Dunster. In the inventories several pieces of silver are mentioned, but there seems to be no reason to connect any of them with the silver mentioned in the early College lists.

2 Several years ago Professor Le Baron R. Briggs called the attention of Mr. Matthews to a medal which was then owned by the daughters of the late Dr. Jonathan Greely Stevenson, who graduated at Harvard in the class of 1816. The medal, which is now in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is in the shape of a star with fourteen points, and bears on one side the inscription:

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The significance of the letters "K. P. S." eluded Mr. Matthews's research, but the book-plate exhibited by Mr. Potter makes it reasonably certain that they stand for "Knights of the Pudding Stick." The date 1809 undoubtedly indicates the year in which the society or club was started. Dr. Stevenson in

think that soon after 1811 it merged with another club, "The Order of the Knights of the Square Table."

The book-plate of the Knights of the Square Table bears the same name, D. Parkman.1 This is a much more ambitious plate, being engraved and carrying arms over a window or doorway draped with a curtain which furnished a place for an inscription. This club was founded in 1809 and in 1831 merged with the Porcellian Club. The records of the latter still carry on its list of members the names of the "Knights" during the twentytwo years of their separate existence. The library of the Knights of the Square Table and their other belongings became the property of the Porcellian, and two book-plates exhibited by Mr. Potter were taken from books discarded from the Porcellian's library.

Three of the early book-plates of the Porcellian Club were also shown. On two of them the arms and motto are the same as on the plate of the Knights of the Square Table. These plates are all engraved, and are undated, but their sequence can be traced by the names of the owners. The latest of them is signed by F. Mitchell as artist, and G. G. Smith as engraver.

Mr. Ezra H. Baker exhibited (1) an original deed of land in Rowley2 from Harvard College to Daniel Hale of Newbury, dated February 28, 1737-8, attached to which is an embossed seal of the College; and (2) the

1813 became a member of the Knights of the Square Table a fact which tends to corroborate Mr. Potter's conclusion that the older club was merged in the younger one, both being later absorbed by the Porcellian.

1 Parkman became a member of the Knights of the Square Table in 1810. 2 Land in Rowley was bequeathed to the College by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, who died in 1661. For many years the land was leased, but in 1733 the College obtained from the General Court permission to sell it. The portion sold to Daniel Hale in 1738 consisted of "Four freehold Rights or Comonages in Mill Swamp pasture in yo lower Com: in Rowley," etc. The deed is signed by the President, Fellows, and Treasurer of the College.

This is one of the earliest seals attached to such a document now extant.

following document, to which a seal was once affixed, having at the bottom the name of the Rev. John Wilson of Medfield: 1

MEADFIELD OctobTM the 6th 2 1687

Know all men by these presents that Whereas my Coz M1 John Danforth of Dorchester hath pfected a Division (with my son John Wison ) of the farm att Brantre whom I haue constituted my Lawfull Attoney to transact the same and to make choise of one pt of sd Farm for my Vse (w Divided) I doe therefore accept of his choise of the House Division as my pt, accordingly Desiring him to Resign vp the North Division to my sister Mr Mary Rock 5 and hir Heirs, promising to Ratify sa choise by Defraying and paying to hir the sum of 3011 according to their Articles of agreement In testimony hereof I have set to my hand and seal the year and Day abousd

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Mr. Baker exhibited also various other objects, including a copy of the first number of John Farmer's MemoThe impression is unfortunately a poor one, but the word "Christo" is very clear.

1 The Rev. John Wilson (1621–1691; H. C. 1642) of Medfield was the son of the Rev. John Wilson (1588-1667) of Boston.

2 Apparently altered from "4th "

By cousin is here meant nephew. The Rev. John Danforth (1660–1730; H. C. 1677) of Dorchester was the son of the Rev. Samuel Danforth (H. C. 1643) of Roxbury, who married Mary Wilson, a sister of the Rev. John Wilson of Medfield.

4 This John Wilson (1660-1728) is said (cf. our Publications, xvii. 275, 285) to have been a temporary student at Harvard. He taught school at Medfield, preached at New Haven, returned to Medfield where, owing to the opposition of the town, he failed to succeed his father as pastor, and removed to Braintree, where he practised medicine from 1692 to his death. See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Ixi. 38-41, 127-129; W. S. Tilden, History of Medfield, pp. 520-524.

5 This was the mother of the Rev. John Danforth of Dorchester. After the death of her husband the Rev. Samuel Danforth of Roxbury, she married Joseph Rock.

• It is a pamphlet of forty-eight pages, bound in a blue paper cover, dated "No. I. August, 1833."

rials of the Graduates of Harvard University; a copy of the first edition (a broadside) of the Rev. Samuel Gilman's Fair Harvard, which was written in Fay House, Cambridge; a lithograph by Moore, who succeeded Pendleton, from a sketch by Thomas Thompson, Jr., of the monument erected to the memory of John Harvard in the ancient burial-ground of Charlestown;1 a view of the boat race on Charles River in 18582 in which President Eliot and Alexander Agassiz were in the Harvard boat; and several pieces of blue pottery portraying Harvard buildings and scenes.

1 The location of Harvard's grave is not known, but he was probably buried, with other early settlers, in or near what has since been known as the City Square, in which the first meeting-house was built.

2 Cf. Harvard Book, ü. 201–204; Harvard Graduates' Magazine, xv. 457–458, 531-533.

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