Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...John Bridge, the Puritan scholar, which stands on the Common, and now he must be thanked on behalf of the University for this last gift. The oldest document on the college reads as follows : "New England's first fruits in respect to the College of Cambridge in Massachusetts Bay," and is a long discourse on the first struggles and act of organization of our University. This document was written in 1642, and states that the first class of the college numbered nine students only. As soon as the pilgrims had roofs to shelter them and food to keep them alive...
...over two hundred years, the man to whom this flourishing university owes its very existence is to be fitly remembered by a handsome memorial in the form of a statue. Born in England and educated at Cambridge University, John Harvard early crossed the Atlantic and settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony and here after a short residence he died. From the first he was interested in education and his entire library of 500 volumes and half of his little fortune of $4,000 was bequeathed to the struggling college or rather school just coming into existence. The state wisely gave...
...behind each one and made the appropriate gestures for him. All who refused to resign were expelled by the Admiral amid the hoots and howls of his fellow tars. An annual cruise wound up the year's festivities and was generally sailed in a tug-boat down Massachusetts bay to some headland, where all would disembark and have a chowder or fish dinner of some sort, the whole cruise lasting only three days and then the navy returned with state to Cambridge in a "barge." One year a large tent called the "Good Ship Harvard" was erected in the yard...
...Robert Luce, '82, contributes an article to the current Bay State Monthly...
...diary and letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., B. A., 1727 (Harvard), Governor-in-chief of Massachusetts Bay Colony, is announced by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Hutchinson, it will be remembered, was the governor who in 1770 transferred the session of the General Court from Boston to Cambridge, much to the disgust of its members...