Word: england
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Under these favorable circumstances he resolved to break with the church, family and country and come to New England. That one great resolve is the sole basis of his fame. His life here was short and broken; he was for a few months minister of a church in Charles- town, and then, worn out in body, he died at the early...
...University Library has just purchased a valuable engraved view of Harvard College, executed on copper by Paul Revere. The engraving is entitled "A Westerly View of the Colleges in Cambridge, New England." The engraving measures 15 1-2 by 9 1-4 inches and is valued at over...
...eyes of John Harvard, as they look out upon the Delta, a vision of the College which bears his name, and interprets for us the thoughts of the Founder with respect both to the past and to the future. He well brings out the Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth, "bearing contentment...
...Townsend, on the contrary, has given us in his short story, entitled "In a Field," an uncommonly artistic and vivacious tale of two people in whom we can readily believe, and about whose subsequent fate we should be glad to hear more. Mr. L. Grandgent's "In old New England" is, finally, as its title indicates, a historical narrative, based, I suppose, upon the traditions of the Maine town of Pemaquid, where the scene is laid. The general conditions under which the English settlers lived during the French and Indian Wars are interestingly sketched, and the account of a sudden...
Henry Dunster was a graduate of Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, in 1630. He came to America in 1640, and in the same year was chosen the first president of Harvard College, which had been founded six years before. His fourteen years of office came at the most critical period in the history of the College, and his service was effectual in placing it on a firm foundation. His resignation in 1654 was the result of a dispute with the stricter Puritans of the colony over church doctrines which Dunster refused to accept. After his resignation he was pastor...