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...perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of Mr. John Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, living among us, to give the he one-half of his estate, it being in all about 1700 pounds, towards the erecting of a college, and all his library. After him another gave 300, others after them cast in more...
Three miles (handicap), open to invited amateurs. 1, H. W. Hogue, '87; 2, C. F. Haven; 3, G. W. Matthewson, C. S.; 4, H. M. Sabin; 5, N. P. Tyler; 6, W. B. Segur, Andover, B. C.; 7, J. W. Vivian, Charlestown, B. C.; 8, Louis Stearns, Princeton, B. C.; 9, H. A. Edgerly, Cambridge B. C.; 10, Arthur Willard; 11, N. G. Norcross, Boston Ramblers...
...Yale Glee Club, now on its Western trip, met with a sad accident on Saturday evening. While their special car was standing in the station in Charlestown, Indiana, waiting to convey them to Louisville, it was run into by the locomotive of the Cincinnati express train, The express was uninjured but the special car was destroyed. Otis Strong of Auburn, N. Y., had both legs crushed, and one of them at least will have to be amputated. W. W. Crehore of Cleveland, O., had one of his legs badly broken, and C. W. Cutler was severely cut about the head...
...first information that we have of his presence here is from the records of his admission as an inhabitant of Charlestown on the 1st of August, 1637, where he was sometimes "minister of God's Word." He was called the Reverend in New England and was known as a preacher, but as to whether he had been ordained in England or not we are in ignorance. There is no record moreover of his ordination as a dissenter either there or here. In a little less than a year after his arrival in America, he died of consumption, leaving...
...hundred and eighth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill was celebrated yesterday in the Charlestown District...