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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), Radcliffe College. (search)
Radcliffe College. Arthur Gilman, Regent of Radcliffe College. In the year 1643, the Rev. Thomas Weld, pastor of the church in Roxbury, received from Lady Ann Moulson, of London, widow, the sum of one hundred pounds current English money, for Harvard College in New England. See A History of Harvard University, by Benjamin Peirce, p. 12. The purpose which Lady Moulson had in making this gift is expressed in the formal receipt which with great business sagacity she exacted of Mr. Weld. Mr. Weld. That document has been preserved, and two consequences have followed. Lady Moulson's intention in contributing the money out of Christian desire to advance good learning, was to bestow the income upon such poor scholler as the college might think best, though it was stipulated that in case any kinsman of hers were admitted to the college, the income should be his until he had attained his master's degree, even though it might at the time be awarded to. another. This fund, as Mr. Andrew McFar