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...politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis emerald-green parks, good schools and libraries, roared around town yelling "Hiya, boy" at anyone who would look his way (and all Memphians did), got rich on an insurance company that everyone in his bailiwick clamored to patronize...
Civil progress, and not antiquarian musings, finally put an cad to conjecture. In 1910 Cambridge began tearing up Massachusetts Avenue to put in a subway line. Under the street across from Wadsworth House, workers came upon a substantial stone and mortar fact--the cellar walls of Cow Yard Row. On the Yard side of the street, looking down from the Square, had stood three houses: Goodman Goffe's, Goodman Peyntree's, said the Revernd Mr. Shepard's. In the middle house, Mr. Peyatree's, Harvard College had its first home...
...early 17th century, Massachusetts was still cow country, and the little community of Newtown, later to be renamed Cambridge, was primarily a cow town. The Goffe's were substantial people, owning another house across the street, where Little Hall now stands. Like most of their neighbors, they were in the cattle business. Behind the three houses in Cow Yard Row stretched long narrow lots, fenced in separately and ending in a line of Common Pales which divided the private holdings from the Ox Pasture. The cattle were driven into these yards at night, so that the lookout on Watch House...
Either because he did not fancy himself a cowpuncher, or for some other reason, Goodman Peyntree pulled up roots by late 1637, and moved his family off to Connecticut. In 1638 the little community learned that the middle house in Cow Yard Row had been purchased, and they watched with anxiety as workmen began fitting up the old Peyntree place for a new college...
...house stood empty. Then in 1640 Henry Dunster moved in, and the College got off to a second, less spectacular start. Over the next several years, little is known of the Goffe's. Perhaps they followed the Peyntree clan to Connecticut. But by 1651, the end house on Cow Yard Row went up for sale, and President Dunster added it to the growing College. It was renamed Goffe College, and turned into a dormitory to supplement the space available in Eaton House and a new building to the rear called the Old College. On the first floor there...