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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 18: education. (search)
account of Harvard College. But such an account must be omitted by me for two obvious reasons: (1.) The subject is too important to be thrust into a corner and treated as merely subsidiary to a general history of the city. (2.) Three histories of the College have already been published, and there is no apparent necessity to glean a field so recently and so thoroughly reaped. See History of Harvard University, by Benjamin Peirce, Librarian, etc., 1833; History of Harvard University, by Josiah Quincy, President, etc., 1840; and Sketch of the History of Harvard College, by Samuel A. Eliot, 1848. He adds, And by the side of the Colledge a faire Grammar Schoole, for the training up of young Schollars, and fitting of them for Academicall Learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the Colledge of this Schoole; Rather, they may be received into the Colledge: of this schoole, Master Corlett is the Mr. In the Errata, without any more definite reference, is f