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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Harvard University. (search)
istration. (Salaries in administrative offices, libraries, and collections.) Below these inscriptions are two more, one speaking of John Harvard:— John Harvard was a Master of Arts of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, founded by Sir Walter Mildmay. The second is a quotation from Thomas Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge (1655), and speaks thus of Sir Walter Mildmay:— Coming to Court after he had founded his Colledge, the Queen told him, Sir Walter, I hear you havSir Walter Mildmay:— Coming to Court after he had founded his Colledge, the Queen told him, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation. No, Madam, saith he, farre be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established Lawes, but I have set an Acorn, which when it becomes an Oake, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof. From the oak which Sir Walter planted thus, three centuries ago, sprang Harvard College, the oldest institution of learning in America. The university of to-day includes the college of the older days, and eight schools: the Graduate School, the Lawrence S<