John Harvard and his times . IN MEMORY OF JOHN HARVARD AMEMBERofEMMANUEL COLLEGE WHO EMIGRATED TO MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND THERE DYING IN l638 BEQUEATHED TO A COLLEGE NEWLY ESTABLISHED BY THE GENERAL COURT HIS LIBRARY AND ONE HALF OF HIS ESTATE WHEREFORE HIS NAME IS BORNE BY HARVARD COLLEGE THAT ELDEST OF THE SEMINARIES WHICH ADVANCE LEARNING AND PERPETUATE IT TO POSTERITY THROUGHOUT AMERICA THISTAHLET KRKCTED BY HARVARDMEN RHCORDSTHKIR GRATITUDE TOTHhLIRKOllNDKR IN THE COLLFXEWHICHFOSTKRKD HIS liKNKFlCENT SPIRIT. fei^i^ mi:m( tab lei IN Tin: nivrKi- of km mam k CAMBRIDGE —roje 260. T
John Harvard and his times . IN MEMORY OF JOHN HARVARD AMEMBERofEMMANUEL COLLEGE WHO EMIGRATED TO MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND THERE DYING IN l638 BEQUEATHED TO A COLLEGE NEWLY ESTABLISHED BY THE GENERAL COURT HIS LIBRARY AND ONE HALF OF HIS ESTATE WHEREFORE HIS NAME IS BORNE BY HARVARD COLLEGE THAT ELDEST OF THE SEMINARIES WHICH ADVANCE LEARNING AND PERPETUATE IT TO POSTERITY THROUGHOUT AMERICA THISTAHLET KRKCTED BY HARVARDMEN RHCORDSTHKIR GRATITUDE TOTHhLIRKOllNDKR IN THE COLLFXEWHICHFOSTKRKD HIS liKNKFlCENT SPIRIT. fei^i^ mi:m( tab lei IN Tin: nivrKi- of km mam k CAMBRIDGE —roje 260. THE NEW WORLD There is no chapter in the early annals ofthe Bay State which one would so willingly ef-face as that which records the pitiless persecu-tion and clerical vengeance with which AnneHutchinson was hounded from Boston. Shemay have been a visionary, and possessed byan over-weening confidence in her own abilityto interpret the Bible, but the same chargesmay with equal truth be urged against her per-secutors to a man. To claim, as has so fre-quently been done, that her heresy needed tobe crushed in the interests of the communityat large, is to admit that Laud himself was thepurest and most zealous patriot that ever Winthrop himself, for the Rev. JohnWilson, and all the ministers who figured soshamefully in that episode, no defence is pos-sible which does not at the same time elevateLaud to the rank of a martyr. There is noother alternative. For more than a year prior to Harvards arrival, th
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