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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harvard, John 1607-1638 (search)
Harvard, John 1607-1638 Philanthropist and founder of Harvard College; born in Southwark, England, in November, 1607; graduated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1635; emigrated to Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman, in 1637, and in Charlestown became a preacher of the Gospel. He bequeathed one-half of £ 1,500 for the founding of a college, and also left to the institution his library of 320 volumes. He died in Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 14, 1638
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harvard University, (search)
Harvard University, The first of the higher seminaries of learning established in America. The general court of Massachusetts had made some provisions towards educating a succession of learned ministers. They had established a school at Newtown, the name of which was changed to Cambridge, in honor of the university at which most of the Massachusetts ministers had been educated. John Harvard endowed the school in his will. The school was erected into a college, and named, in honor of its benefactor, Harvard College. Henry Dunster, a Hebrew scholar just arrived in the colony, was chosen its first president. A class began a collegiate course of study in 1638, and nine graduated in 1642. Efforts were made to educate Indians for teachers, but only one ever graduated. In 1642 the general management of the temporalities of the institution was intrusted to a board of trustees, and in 1650 the general court granted it a charter, with the title, President and fellows of Harvard Co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jesuit missions. (search)
approbation, and to confirm and strengthen these missions a college in New France was projected. The pious young Marquis de Gaenache, with the assent of his parents, entered the Society of Jesus, and with a portion of their ample fortune he endowed a seminary for education at Quebec. Its foundation was laid in 1635, just before the death of Champlain. That college was founded two years before the first high seminary of learning was established in the Protestant colonies in America by John Harvard (see Harvard University). At the same time the Duchess d'acquillon, aided by her uncle, Cardinal Richelieu, endowed a public hospital at Quebec, open to the afflicted, whether white or red men, Christians or pagans. It was placed in charge of three young nuns, the youngest twenty-two, and the oldest twenty-nine years of age, who came from Paris for the purpose. In 1640, Hochelaga (Montreal) was taken possession of as a missionary station, with solemn religious ceremonies, and the Queen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Millet, Francis Davis 1846- (search)
Millet, Francis Davis 1846- Artist; born in Mattapoisett, Mass., Nov. 3, 1846; graduated at Harvard College in 1869; studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1871-72, was secretary of the Massachusetts Commission to the Vienna Exposition in 1873, and art correspondent for the London Daily news, the London Graphic, and the New York Herald during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78. In 1892-93 he was director of decorations and of functions at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and in 1898 was art correspondent for the London Times and Harper's weekly at Manila, Philippine Islands. He designed the costumes for the representation of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles by Harvard students in 1880; has executed a large amount of decorative work; and received numerous foreign war medals.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
of her......Nov. 2, 1637 She is excommunicated, sent out of the jurisdiction, and retires to Narraganset Bay, where her husband had gone......March, 1638 John Harvard, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, bequeaths his library and half of his estate, which amounted to £ 700, for a college......Sept. 14, 1638 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company organized as the Military Company of Boston......February, 1638 Rev. John Harvard dies at Charlestown......Sept. 14, 1638 Three thousand emigrants arrive from England during......1638 Printing-press established at Cambridge by Stephen Daye......March, 1639 College at Cambridge .Sept. 3, 1883 Wendell Phillips, born 1811, dies at Boston......Feb. 2, 1884 Charles O'Conor, born 1804, dies at Nantucket......May 12, 1884 Statue of John Harvard unveiled at Cambridge......Oct. 15, 1884 William C. Endicott appointed United States Secretary of War......March 6, 1885 Elizur Wright, abolitionist, bor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), University and College education in the United States, the trend of (search)
ed to think more of facts, and to let our beautiful thoughts be guided by them. 3. Still further, the curriculum was not one of high standard, from the present point of view. It is probably a correct statement that the curriculum of Yale and Harvard sixty years ago was not much higher than the curriculum of the best grade of high schools to-day. It certainly was not as broad in the opportunities furnished for diversity of work. As late as the year 1843 the requirements for admission to thenance of a university. Universities on large foundations have come as a result, on one hand, of generous gifts from men of many denominations, including gifts from those who have had no denominational connection. (In this class will be placed Harvard, Yale, and Chicago.) Or by individual men, either out of touch with Christian work altogether, or without reference to it. (Here are to be placed Girard College and the Leland Stanford University.) Or by the collective strength of a State. (Her
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waters, Henry Fitz-gilbert 1833- (search)
Waters, Henry Fitz-gilbert 1833- Genealogist; born in Salem, Mass., March 29, 1833; graduated at Harvard College in 1855; taught school; member of the school committee of Salem in 1881-82, and its secretary in 1882-83; has spent several years pursuing genealogical inquiries; and traced the family of John Harvard when other genealogists failed, for which he received the honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1885.
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
n, Winthrop, South, Holyoke, Dunster, and Boylston had come into existence within these limits. The northern frontier street, upon the site of Harvard Street and Harvard Square, was called Braintree Street. A road upon the site of the lower end of Brattle Street with Brattle Square was known as Creek Lane, and it was continued in the college should be placed in the New Town. And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about £ 1700) towards the erecting ofe college, people seem to have begun calling it Cambridge. In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was c
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)
roperty, and on real estate occupied for its own purposes. Beginning with John Harvard in 1638, private benefactors have given to the University in land, buildingsand collections.) Below these inscriptions are two more, one speaking of John Harvard:— John Harvard was a Master of Arts of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, EnglJohn 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 Miirit is in the college world. From the world outside there comes a cry that Harvard is indifferent,—yet nothing is falser; men do not rightly judge the attitude ottle band that centres round a Home Library; there is a sailors' mission where Harvard students may be found Sundays, and a Prospect Union, where men who have toiled all day meet at night to study, and Harvard students are their teachers. They devote time and strength to these, but they say nothing. Silently the rich have give
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Chapel at Harvard. (search)
Chapel at Harvard. The Right Rev. William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts. One cannot consider the movements of the religious life of Harvard apart from the history of the development of the university from a college. Thirty years ago Harvard was a college. The whole system of discipline was adapted to youth and immaturity of character. The student was under the eye of the college every hour of the day and night; his courses of study were marked out for him, lessons from the textbooks were given from day to day. He was under tutelage. In harmony with this system he was required to go to daily prayers and to Sunday worship. To be sure there was an occasional protest that religion stood on a different footing from studies. But the answer was reasonable that in the development of the boy, religion had its place with study, and why should it not be under the same rules? Thus at an early hour every morning the college bell, under the faithful charge of Old Jones as he was
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