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...decades later, Samuel Ward one-upped other donors of land who had given Harvard farms, a slice of swampland and "half a house," leaving the College an entire island off the Massachusetts coast near Hingham...
Leslie S. Goldberg, a professional collegeconsultant in Hingham, says that between twootherwise equal schools, the specter of paying offloans after graduation could push high schoolseniors to a school offering more grants...
...native of Hingham, on the South Shore, Cooke is not entirely new to the College. After doing her undergraduate work at Columbia, she received her master's in education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education...
...Ship" Puritan meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...