Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . ted master of the school, and underhis superintendence a small wooden house was built near the site ofthe present Wadsworth House. It had about an acre of land aroundit and some thirty apple trees. Eaton proved to be a harsh andpenurious manager, and the scholars rebelled at the bad a result, Eaton was discharged. In 1638, the institution receivedthe liberal bequest of about ;^78o, and also 260 books, from the Harvard, late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, whodied at Charlestown in that year. The General Cou
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . ted master of the school, and underhis superintendence a small wooden house was built near the site ofthe present Wadsworth House. It had about an acre of land aroundit and some thirty apple trees. Eaton proved to be a harsh andpenurious manager, and the scholars rebelled at the bad a result, Eaton was discharged. In 1638, the institution receivedthe liberal bequest of about ;^78o, and also 260 books, from the Harvard, late of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, whodied at Charlestown in that year. The General Court, in memory ofthe noble benefactor, gave the college his name. The college wasthus placed on a secure ? financial foundation, which has beenstrengthened and maintained by good management and the gener-osity of the alumni and other friends. Though connected withColonial and State governments, the university has been from thefirst a private rather than a public institution, supported, in the main,by the fees paid by its students and the income from (105) 106 HANDY GUIDE TO B0S2 ON. Harvard is not only the oldest, but one of the richest, of Americancolleges. She possesses property worth $12,000,000; her roll ofgraduates, living and dead, contains nearly 20,000 names; and, inround numbers, her 3,000 students are taught by 300 professorsand instructors. Her list of eminent sons comprises the names ofJohn Adams, John Quincy Adams, W. E. Channing, Edward Ever-ett, W. H. Prescott, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, OliverWendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, John Lothrop Motley, JamesRussell Lowell, E. E. Hale, and Henry D. Thoreau. In Cambridge, Harvard has the college, the graduate school, theDivinity school, the Lawrence scientific school, and the law school;in Boston proper are the dental school, the medical school, and theschool of veterinary medicine ; and in Jamaica Plain are the BusseyInstitution and the Arnold Arboretum. Each of these departmentsis endowed with its own
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