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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC85 H7373 849s
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.
- Sparks, Jared.
- College presidents--Inauguration--Poetry.
- College presidents.
- College presidents--Inauguration.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Poems -- 1849.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 20 x 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Cambridge, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1849]
- Contents:
- The task (first line: Twelve well crammed lines, firm, juicy, marrowy, sweet)
- The execution (first line: Long live old Harvard!)
- Notes:
- Poem, in two parts, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, delivered at the inauguration of Jared Sparks as president of Harvard on June 20, 1849.
- Printed area measures 12.4 x 8.2 cm.
- Cited in:
- BAL, 8752
- OCLC:
- 11992689
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