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...fact, this charter was never recorded and its validity is doubtful because it was issued by only an acting governor without permission of either the home government or the provincial legislature. Orthodox Anglicans seized this issue of legality and were pressing for annulment of the charter when Harvardman Jonathon Belcher, Class of 1699, stepped in to save the embryo college from extinction...
...Jonathon Belcher ranked second in his class at Harvard but fell into evil ways after graduation. He tried his hand at business but was publicly caned for exporting scarce grain; so he turned to politics. The most notable play of his early political career came in 1716. In this year the choice for governor of Massachusetts fell between two men--Shute and Burgess. By bribing Burgess $1000 to leave the race, Belcher won the commission for his friend Shute and gained a certain notoriety for himself in the bargain. Shute, in turn, grew tired of office quickly and finagled...
...this weakened Jonathon Belcher's influence considerably, and subsequent string-pulling only netted him the post of Governor of New Jersey. His arrival in the Garden State was a gala event in 1747, but he demonstrated the powers of perception gained at Harvard by describing the citizens of New Jersey -- "the greatest part of them in a Wretched State of Ignorance, Unpolisht and of bad manners." Disillusioned, he named his estate "World's End," then decided to establish a respectable college...
...following men were elected to HDC membership: John A. Seiler '51, and John C. Aldrich, Robert A. Berger, Jonathon Bishop, Gaynor F. Bradish, David M. Brown, Douglas G. Dahlin, Kenneth L. Everett, Harry F. Flynn, David D. Foss, John S. Gerig, Chester E. Gordon, and Richard E. Norris, all of the Class...
...Jonathon Edwards overcame the Winthrop tennis team in a close match, 4 to 3, by taking all the first four matches. The Crimson winners were Dan Flickinger, Charley D'Autremont, and Lloyd Booth...