Dr. William Everett, principal of Adams Academy, has presented a portrait of Samuel Rogers, the English poet, to the college. It will soon be placed in Memorial Hall. It was painted about the year 1847 by Chester Harding, and by him sent in the spring of 1848 to Edward Everett, who was then president of Harvard College. By his administrator it was presented to Sidney Brooks, (Harvard College, 1819). From him it was passed by will in 1878 to William Everett, (Harvard College, 1859). It is by him presented to the president and fellows, in pursuance of an intention expressed in a letter of Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers. Mr. Rogers lived from 1763 to 1855, and first appeared as an author in the same year with Burns, namely, 1786. His poetry was of the unimpassioned, meditative character. Chambers says that "it was man of taste and letters, as a patron of artists and authors, and as the friend of almost every illustrious man that has graced our annals for the last half century or more, that Mr. Rogers chiefly engaged the public at tention." His colleges works have been published in various forms.
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