Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in its first fifty years Harvard had a reputation as being the place where rich merchants sent their idle sons. This, coupled with its aura of religious liberalism, was enough to set wealthy Connecticut burghers to thinking about a college of their own as early as 1650, but nothing was done about it until...
...that year a group of ten stern-faced men gathered in the parsonage of Abraham Pierson in Branford. Connecticut and each tossed some books on a table as their contribution to the founding of a college. These men were all ministers who outraged at Harvard's unenthusiastic attitude toward such Calvinistic doctrines as infant damnation and predestination, had decided to establish a rival institution. All but one of the ton were Harvard graduates...
Until 1718 the Collegiate School wandered around in various small Connecticut towns, always under the heavy influence of Harvard and Harvard men. Its first full-time instructor was Daniel Hooker 1700. Its first B.A. was awarded to John Hart, a transfer student from the Harvard Class of 1704. Indeed, The Collegiate School seemed rather anxious to accept Harvard transfers, while Cambridge authorities were at first unwilling to recognize Collegiate's degrees...
Harvard officials, however, were from the first quite friendly toward the pathetic school to the South. Benjamin Colman 1692, despite the fact that he was dead set against Yale's Calvinism, opposed Harvard's admitting any Connecticut students so as not to shut off The Collegiate's supply of Bright Young...
Harvard's helping hand to its Connecticut rival was exemplified by Edward Holyoke 1705, who became the seventh president of Harvard. During his 30-year term of office he corresponded regularly with his counterparts at Yale, sagely advising them on matters of College administration. He warned President Thomas Clap of Yale against putting gutters on his buildings because the students would undoubtedly clog them up with refuse. He also advised against lining Yale's windows with lead, writing Clap that the students would probably steal the lead and sell...