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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
Between Christ Church and the First Parish Church lies the old peaceful graveyard, ablaze in autumn with golden-rod. The yard is fully two hundred and sixty-four years old, and had been used about one hundred and thirty years before Christ Church was built. Here lie Stephen Day, first printer of this continent north of Mexico; Elijah Corlet, first master of the Faire Grammar School; Thomas Shepard, first pastor in Cambridge; also Jonathan Mitchell, Nathaniel Gookin, William Brattle, Thomas Hilliard, and Mr. Appleton; and of the Harvard presidents, Dunster, Chauncy (on whose tomb is a Latin inscription), Oakes, Leverett, Wadsworth, Holyoke, Willard and Webber. Here are also Governor Belcher, Judge Remington, Mrs. Brattle; and under Christ Church is the old Vassall tomb, containing ten coffins-those of the family and also one of the black servants of the family, and one probably of Lieutenant Brown, the English officer who was shot by a sentry. In the yard stands a monument erect
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
ome that day strange visitors, Part conscript fathers, part inquisitors, Not men susceptible of mirth or pity, Not friends and ministers — but the Committee. How truly awful was the warning hum, And the announcement, “Here they are, they come!” The boys look bold and saucy, and each girl Gives the last finish to her favorite curl. They enter and bestow on either hand A glance meant to be dignified and bland. Now are our lessons weighed in the just steelyard-- And oft found wanting too-of Mr. Hilliard; Now are the copies of each urchin wayward 'Neath the clear, searching eyes of Mr. Hayward. There was a class that Whelpley's Compend used, Whose talk historic our small brains confused. Egyptian, Grecian, Roman facts we knew, And Carthaginian; and we mixed them, too, Like Seidlitz-powder papers, white and blue, To the Committee then poured out the essence, Which made a very pretty effervescence. One of this class it was my hap to be. To say the world's seven wonders came to me, That I wa<