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lege was called Harvard. 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 Churerected on nearly the present site of Dane Hall at Harvard Square. In this same year, before the church was completed, Mr. Shepard died. We have the record of him as the holy, heavenly, sweet-affecting, soul-ravishing preacher. Next to Shepard cShepard came Mitchel, almost equally celebrated for piety and eloquence. Cotton Mather and Richard Baxter praise him highly, and President Increase Mather said to his students, Say, each of you, Mitchel shall be the example whom I will imitate. During thisat last compelled by his parish to resign. With the majority of his church he withdrew from his place and formed the Shepard Congregational Society. This society built, in 1832, a new meeting-house on its present site, and though compelled, by