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...launch the 1,500-ton destroyer Fanning they were building at their Staten Island yard for the U. S. Navy at a cost of $4,000,000. When the morning chosen for the launching arrived, Miss Cora Arinna Marsh of New London, Conn., great-great-granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than 250 invited guests made their way to the shipyard, where they expected to cheer Miss Marsh as she proudly...
...were Cantabrigians, who six years later determined to set up a "colledge in the Wilderness." Six members of the Massachusetts Great and General Court which on Oct. 28, 1636 set aside ?400 for that "schoale or colledge" were Cambridge men. From Cambridge came Harvard's first two Presidents, Nathaniel Eaton and Henry Dunster. The name of the site of the "schoale" was soon changed from Newetowne to Cambridge. Indeed, from Cambridge came John Harvard himself...
Members of the Cabinet present were: Kalternborn, Dennett, Bowditch, Rodman W. Paul '36, Harold W. Danser, Jr. '37, Walter I. Tucker, 2M, Edward T. Ladd '38, Nathaniel H. Batchelder, Jr. '39, Sheldon Ware '38, Coleman Burke 3L, Shafer Williams 2Dv., Elliott B. Knowleton '39, and Oliver P. Bolton...
...independent thought. For an illustration of this, as early as 1692, look at the records of the Salem witchcraft frenzy. This was an event in which many prominent Harvard men were involved, but, characteristically, with entirely different points of view. William Stoughton, the chief prosecutor of the witch trials; Nathaniel Saltonstall, the judge who left the bench "rather than stain his hands with innocent blood"; John Hale, the most active minister among the witch-hunters; Joshua Moody, the minister who braved mob fury in helping some of the accused to escape; and President Mather...
Meanwhile, in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a grave, introspective, mysterious, sea captain's son, was growing up in a town that had passed its prime and was already peopled with eccentric oldsters, leftovers of Puritan days. He was also growing up in an eccentric household: his mother went to her room when she heard of her husband's death, and stayed there for 40 years; his sister left the house only at nightfall; the family meals were left outside the door of each member's room. There Hawthorne was writing stories that grew "as mushrooms grow...