Text extracted from opening pages of book: H A R., V-A R D BY JOHN HAYS GARDINER NEW YORK OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMERICAN BRANCH: 95 WEST 32KB STKKIT IONDON, TORONTO, MELBOURNE, AND BOMBAY HUMPHREY MILFORD 1914 ALl RWBTB JROTJBTO PREFACE IN view of the circumstances surrounding the writing and publication of this volume a brief word of preface is fitting. John Hays Gardiner was born at Gardiner, Maine, April 6, 18G3, the son of Colonel John William Tudor Gardiner of the Class of 183G and Ann Elizabeth ( Hays) Gardiner, and the grandson of Robert Ilalloweli Gar diner of the Class of 1801. He was admitted to Harvard from J. P. Iloplunson’s private school in July, 1883, and received his A. B. in 1885. The two following years he spent at the Harvard Law School, when health and strength failed him. Five years variously occupied in private tutoring and foreign travel, with frequent periods of complete rest at homo, were necessary to re store him to an active life. In 1892 he began a connection with Harvard ITniver sdty that was to last almost continuously for twenty-one years. From September, 1892, until September, 1900, lie WHS Instructor in Iflnglish in Harvard Collego ; and from September, 1900, to June, 1910, Assistant Professor of English; then, after a year devoted to writing, he entered the service of the Harvard Alumni Association to assume the editorship of the Harvard Alumni Bui-IcLin^ a position whieh he held at the time of his - death in Boston on May 14, 1913. His active interests were not confined to the limits of his assigned tasks. One of the earliest and most per sistent advocates of the necessity of better English com vi TEE PACE position, he did a very considerable service to the cause of English teaching, particularly iu the schools, Among his other good works for the Department of English ho was influential in arranging for several Shakespearian plays, staged in an improvised opeu-air theatre. lie wan an ardent worker for the welfare of the Harvard Univer sity Library and the Child Memorial Library, and did much to strengthen them in those fields for which his travel and reading had given him a particular liking, lie was also actively associated with the Harvard Co operative Society and with the Harvard Union. His published writings were on those subjects with which his courses were especially e. onee, rue< l and con sisted of three text-books iu English Composition and one book on the English Bible from the point of view of English literature. The spirit which ho brought to his work was the spirit of quiet helpfulness. To the cause, the colleague, or the undergraduate that needed aid, he gave generously of his money and of his time. A gentleman of rare in stincts and warmth of heart, he is remembered with affec tion by those who were privileged to have his friendship. It was a source of great satis faction to Gardiner that he was able to complete the manuscript of Harvard a few days before he died. It was not, however, poasiblo for him to give it the final and careful revision which ho had planned. It has seemed unwise for others to at tempt the modifications which ho himself miht have made, and so, except for the verification of certain facts, the manuscript is printed as it was left by him. Ap parently the intention, was to write of Harvard, its his tory, its activities, and its customs, from Its founding to the end of President Eliot’s adminiHtration in 1!) 08. In several instances, however, mention is made of hap PREFACE yii penings of a later date, but not to an extent which, gives a complete account of the changes effected by President Lowell in the past six years. For any other hand than Gardiner’s to have smoothed out these irregu larities would have marred more than it would have helped. I cannot speak of those to whom he would have wished to express his appreciation of their assistance. That there are many, I am certain ; their names, however, I do not know. To none, surely, would he have acknowl edg
