. The street railway review . of Tri-niontaiue, from the three hills more prominent in those days thannow. In the midst of all their hardships and privations, John Win-throp wrote to his wife: We are in Paradise where we enjoyGod and Jesus Christ. Is this not enough? In 1637 there arrived in Charlestown. the Kev. John Harvard,who died one year later, but whose brief residence produced far-reaching results, for it was he who founded Harvard College,making a gift of fSOO (.$4.(K10i. which laid the foundation of thepresent great university which has grown from this small begin-ning. It is a curio
. The street railway review . of Tri-niontaiue, from the three hills more prominent in those days thannow. In the midst of all their hardships and privations, John Win-throp wrote to his wife: We are in Paradise where we enjoyGod and Jesus Christ. Is this not enough? In 1637 there arrived in Charlestown. the Kev. John Harvard,who died one year later, but whose brief residence produced far-reaching results, for it was he who founded Harvard College,making a gift of fSOO (.$4.(K10i. which laid the foundation of thepresent great university which has grown from this small begin-ning. It is a curiously impressive event in our history to see thisyonng clergyman—for he was only thirty years of age—come to anew country, give the money to found a college in the wilderness,and die the next year—as if his work were then finished, as itwas, so far as this part of life goes. 514 ^Md^Hgiii^l^vlcW In a ot destiny it is often curious to see liow a ceit-iingroup will be included among tiie dramatis personfe. each with. h 5t, Bo- t WHERE THE LANTERN SIGNALLED ^^^ ° PAUL REVERE. P ^■• C ame to t )WD as eoveuaut which was drawn up on October 10, 1633. The comingof Rev. John Cotton led to his being followed by one of his mostdevoted parishioners, a woman whose strong individuality im-pressed Itself on the life of the colony. This was Mistress AnneHutchinson, the Mary Livermore of her day. Governor Win-throp characterized her as a godly woman and of special parts,who had lost her understanding by occasion of her giving herselfwholly to reading and writing; whereas, if she had attended toher household affairs and such things as belong to women andhad not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such thingsas are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, she had kepther wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorablyin the place God set her. Mistress Hutchinson was as irrepressible as I^ucy Stone orSusan B. Anthony, and she brought to bear a strong and deter
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