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...addition to Iacoomes, the Wampanoag can claim the only person ever to graduate from Harvard’s ill-fated Indian College, Iacoomes?? classmate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, who did participate in Commencement...
While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes?? academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination—he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha’s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...
Uncertainty over the exact timing of Iacoomes?? death—and, by implication, what requirements of his degree he left unfulfilled—caused Harvard to turn down Johansson’s petition, according to John T. O’Keefe, an assistant dean of the College...
...even if Harvard’s archives do not eventually yield more information about Iacoomes??and O’Keefe said more research is possible—Johansson said that “members of the Harvard community are looking for other ways to honor his legacy,” including an annual memorial lecture in Iacoomes?? name...
...have [Iacoomes??] name attached to something of this sort would be an excellent tribute to his memory,” said Durwood Vanderhoop, a member of the tribal council of the present-day Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha’s Vineyard...
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