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Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Joel Iacoomes, John Wampus, Eleazer and Benjamin Larnell were admitted to the College through The Harvard College Charter of 1650, later incorporated into the current Corporate Charter of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, which provided for the "education of the English and Indian youth of this country." This clause allowed the College to receive financial support from a missionary society and to found the Indian College with those funds...
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Joel Iacoomes, John Wampus and Eleazer and Benjamin Larnell are hardly household names...
...Society was notified that "a towardly lad and apt witt for a scholler" had entered the Indian College. This was John Wampus, a Nipmuc Sagamore, who quit before the year was out and spent the next few years in and out of jail for debt and drunkenness. He later settled down as a roving realtor in Massachusetts, and managed to sell the entire township of Sutton--which...
...Wampus was followed by Eleazar, class of 1679. Disease killed Eleazar before graduation, but he left as proof of his academic progress an elegiac poem in Latin and Greek on the death of the Rev. Thomas Thacher...
...Wampus. "I'm not so worried about Jane." says proud Henry Fonda, "but what about Peter? The day will probably come when he'll be stealing roles away from me." Peter's stage experience began in early boarding school days when he wrote, produced and performed in a play called Stalag 17½. In prep school (Connecticut's Westminster), he organized a sort of Young Vic called the Wampus Players. "A wampus," by his definition, "is a mythical cat. very large like a dragon, and he doesn't do anything but eat fair maidens...