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 eighty New England winters, to say nothing of the almost equally devastating New England summers.

These arms, apart from the unique distinction of being the only extant piece of applied heraldry in the College, are of considerable interest in themselves, as showing how exactly family relationships can be expressed by this now almost forgotten art. (If the carved representation could be painted in its proper colors, it would be much more effective, and much easier to decipher.) The Holden coat, in untechnical language, consists of a black shield bearing a horizontal band, or “fesse,” of ermine, between two ermine chevrons. In the space between the upper chevron and the fesse is a golden cup, with cover. This coat belonged to an ancient Lancashire family, which as early as 1613 could already trace back through half a dozen generations. Mrs. Holden came from the family of Whitehall, whose arms were a silver shield, bearing a fesse checkered in red and black, between three helmets. According to the rule for a married woman, this shield, reduced in size, is placed in the centre of her husband’s arms. The latter are not carried in a shield, but in a lozenge, to indicate his death and her consequent widowhood. To the initiated, therefore, the whole device proclaims as plainly as a visiting-card, “The Widow Holden, née Whitehall.”