. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. 208 HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. The office of president, though for a long time, either throughpolicy or parsimony, a dependent one, was always an eminentmark of distinction, and its possessor was regarded — outsidethe College walls at least, if not always within — with venera-tion and respect. The earlier incumbents were men who hadacquired great influence for their j^iety and learning as teachersof the people, whose spiritual and temporalwants were in those primitive days equallyunder guardianship. Chauncy, who is styled in the Magn
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. 208 HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. The office of president, though for a long time, either throughpolicy or parsimony, a dependent one, was always an eminentmark of distinction, and its possessor was regarded — outsidethe College walls at least, if not always within — with venera-tion and respect. The earlier incumbents were men who hadacquired great influence for their j^iety and learning as teachersof the people, whose spiritual and temporalwants were in those primitive days equallyunder guardianship. Chauncy, who is styled in the Magnalia the Cadmus Americana, and who rose at fourin the morning, summer and winter; In-crease Mather, whose dynasty embraced aperiod of great importance in the jDoliticalhistory of the Colony ; Wadsworth, inwhose time the Church of England made itsCHAUNCY. ineffectual effort to obtain an entrance into the government; Holyoke, whose term is memorable as thelongest of the series ; and Langdon, who left his office at thedictation of a cal)al
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