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Since the beginning of Harvard, when the first University Master, Nathaniel Eaton, and his wife were run out of Cambridge for serving rotten food to cut costs, Harvard's dining system has been the object of derision and scorn...
...Wallis, this week's project was a special milestone. Her first child, Nathaniel, was born in August. Ever since, Wallis, who is on maternity leave, has been in and out of the office, often with baby in tow, completing the story. How does motherhood compare with delving into the mysteries of the virus? "It's harder," says Wallis. "I didn't think any job had longer hours than writing for TIME. But a new mother's schedule is even worse...
During the recent commemoration of Harvard's 350th birthday, much was made of the treatment of the first undergraduates at the hands of the first head of the College and his wife. Master and Mistress Nathaniel Eaton, we were told, repeatedly beat the students and fed them rotten pudding. It saddens me to think that in three and a half centuries Harvard has made so little progress in the treatment of its undergraduates. Instead of being neglected physically, they are now being neglected intellectually...
More than a year passed before the "schoale" 's appointed overseers bought the farmhouse, surrounded it with a six-foot fence, planted 30 apple trees and turned over the whole establishment to its first master and sole teacher, Nathaniel Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled...
...Nathaniel Saltonstall, Class of 1659, is said to have refused to participate in the Salem witch trials. Sir Richard Saltonstall, the family scion, spoke out against slavery early in the 17th century. Another Saltonstall refused to obey orders and lost a fleet in the War of 1812. He was discharged from the U.S. Navy...