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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
. Its first leader, Nathaniel Eaton, for maltreating his pupils was dismissed, and for a time Samuel Shepard administered the college affairs. In 1664, however, Henry Dunster became president. He was a member of Shepard Church, as was also Elijah Corlet, master of the Faire Grammar School, on the site of which the Washington Grammar School now stands. In 1642 the first college commencement was held in the First Church. In 1649 a new church was erected on nearly the present site of Dane He 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 tom
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
where grammar, that is, Latin, and English were taught, as well as writing and ciphering. Mr. Elijah Corlet was its master between forty and fifty years, and is praised in that he hath very well appis building was twenty feet in width by twenty-six in length, and was erected many years after Mr. Corlet had laid aside his grammar and his ferule. It is noticeable that many schools now cluster noin Mason street and one or more in Appian Way. The stated fees being quite insufficient for Mr. Corlet's support, special grants were made him. One of ten pounds was ordered in 1680. The record re meeting of the whole town, that there should be land sold of the common for the gratifying of Mr. Corlet for his pains in keeping of a school in the town; the sum of ten pounds if it can be attained,land actually sold under authority of this order was on the south side of Charles River. As Mr. Corlet, in addition to his other duties, prepared Indians for college, this gratifying does not seem