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President Chauncy's sons co take Harvard degrees. 1662. Activities of Harvard's printing press prompt General Court to establish book censorship in Massachusetts. 1663. Mock theses embody such metaphysical themes as "Universals are little stars, ever shining in themselves but invisible in the concrete." 1664. Town of Cambridge gives College thirty acres of land and three commons. 1665. Caleb Chccshahteaumuck, of Martha's Vineyard, is the first Native American to receive a Harvard degree. But because of scant interest. Harvard abandons "Indian College" experiment. 1666. Overseers require that paid Fellows reside in College and be present with scholars at mealtimes "so they may be better enabled to inspect the manners of the schollars." 1667. Overseers order upperclassmen to desist from "abuse" of sending freshmen on "private errands." 1668. Graduating class includes Abraham Picrson, first rector of future Yale College. 1669. Responding to "the loud groanes of the sinking colledg," citizens of Portsmouth, New H a m p s h i r e , pledge £60 per annum for seven years. 1670. William Pcnnoyer of London leaves 92-acre English farm in trust for I larvard; rents provide a new source of scholarship funds. 1671. Apprehensive about the condition of the Old College, authorities solicit subscriptions for construction of Harvard I [all.
1672. Governor John Winthrop gives Harvard its first t e l e s c o p e . . . . President Chauncv dies. Dr. Leonard
Hoar, A.B. 1650, M.D. Cambridge 1671, succeeds him. 1673. Students ridicule Hoar; tutors resign. General Court holds a hearing. 1674. Undergraduates desert in a body. . . . College publishes first listing of alumni (Sobolis HetvanBnae Calalogum). . . . Nathaniel Eaton, first master, dies in debtors' prison near John Harvard's old home in Southwark, England 1675. President Hoar resigns in despair; eight months later he dies, aged 45. Urian Oakes, A.B. 1649, minister of Cambridge, succeeds him. Oakes says the times arc "difficult and unfavorable indeed, in which lack of moderation imports much calamity to academic affairs." 1676. Royal Agent Edward Randolph reports that "Newcolledge [the first Harvard Hall], built at the publick charge, is a fair pile of brick building covered with tiles, by reason of the late Indian warrc not yet finished. It contains 20 chambers for students, two in a chamber; a large hall, which serves for a chappel; over that a convenient library. . . ." 1677. Harvard Hall succeeds Old College as central building. 1678. Bequest of £1,000 from Sir Matthew Holworthy, merchant-shipowner of London, most valuable gift yet received by the College. 1679. Thomas Brattle's observations with I larvard telescope arc favorably noticed by Newton. 1680. 'Pen students, smoking and drinking as if in a tavern, are unfavorably noticed bv Dutch travelers visiting College Hall. 1681. President Oakes dies, at 50, of a fever. 1682. John Rogers. A.B.
The Old College as it may have appealed about I66S, An ambitious building,
computed iu 1644. it deteriorated with a/arming rapidity.
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1649, Ipswich medical practitioner, elected president. 1683. Cotton Mather, A.B. 1678, describes observations of Halley's Comet in his Boston Ephemera, 1684. President Rogers contracts a sudden illness and dies during an eclipse of the sun. 1685. Increase Mather, minister of the Second Church in Boston, b e c o m e s acting president. 1 6 8 6 . Mather's title is changed to rector; William Brattle and John Lcvcrett,
Increase Mather, sixth president (16X5-1701). both A.B. 1680, are named tutors and resident Pel lows. 1687. College's financial state improves. 1688. Mather sails for England on a lengthy political mission, leaving Harvard in the hands of Brattle and Leverett. 1689. Mather encourages a legacy of £500 from Robert 'Phonier, an English dissenter. 1690. Cotton Mather becomes a Fellow of the College. 1691. Tutor Brattle endears himself to students by "ministering . . . to their souls and bodies" during smallpox epidemic. 1692. Back from England, Increase Mather assumes presidency but devotes himself primarily to his Boston ministry. . . . Harvard awards America's first degrees in divinity to Mather. Brattle, and Leverett. . . . The Reverend George Burroughs, A.B. 1670, is convicted of witchcraft bv Judges Sewall (A.B. 1671) and Stoughton (A.B. 1650) and is hanged at Gallows Hill, Salem. 1693. Thomas Brattle, A.B. 1676, brother of William, appointed treasurer . . . Presi-
dent Mather cracks down on spirituous plum cakes: "If any Schollar shall offend therein, the Cakes Shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the Colledge twenty shillings for each such offenc." 1694. Fanned by Salem's witchcraft trials. Increase and Cotton Mathet, under Harvard auspices, invite reports of "appatitions, possessions, enchantments and all extraordinary things, wherein the existence and agency of the invisible world are more sensibly demonstrated." 1695. Corporation votes that six leather chairs be "provided for the use of the library. and six more before the Commencement, in case the treasury will allow of it." 1 6 9 6 . College c h a r t e r exempts president. Fellows, scholars, steward, cook, and one servant from civil and military services, but not from taxes. 1697. Tutors Brattle and Leverett take wives and are required to relinquish their Fellowships. Bight new Fellows appointed. 1 6 9 8 . "Indian College" pulled down. 1699. Stoughton College constructed with bricks from Indian College and a £1,000 gift from Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton. 1700. Five new Fellows appointed. One is tutor Henry Flynt, A.B. 1695, a legendary figure and diarist who will serve for sixty years. 1701. Required by the General Court to reside in Cambridge or resign the presidency of Harvard, Increase Mather complies for six months, then returns to Boston. Vice President Samuel Willard assumes Mather's duties, maintaining his Boston residence. . . . 1 larvard graduates in Connecticut found the "Collegiate School." 1702. Joseph Dudley, A.B. 1665, appointed governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. His administration battles the General Court for thirteen years. 1703. William Brattle readmitted as a Fellow; brother Thomas also appointed. 1704. Corporation votes that the three College tutors shall