John Harvard and his times . AND HIS TIMES this enthusiasm might portend. But not forlong. Landing, as it seems, at Charlestown, Har-vard would soon learn that no one there, or inany other settlement of the colony, dared givehabitation to himself and wife for longer thanthree weeks unless he was able to produce anoflScial permission. No doubt he had broughtwith him such credentials from Anthony Tuck-ney and other well-known Puritans as enabledhim readily to obtain the necessary permission,for on August the 6th he was received as atownsman at Charlestown with promise ofsuch accommodations as we
John Harvard and his times . AND HIS TIMES this enthusiasm might portend. But not forlong. Landing, as it seems, at Charlestown, Har-vard would soon learn that no one there, or inany other settlement of the colony, dared givehabitation to himself and wife for longer thanthree weeks unless he was able to produce anoflScial permission. No doubt he had broughtwith him such credentials from Anthony Tuck-ney and other well-known Puritans as enabledhim readily to obtain the necessary permission,for on August the 6th he was received as atownsman at Charlestown with promise ofsuch accommodations as we best can; butthat he should have been met on landing withsuch a law, enacted only a month or two earlier,must have prompted questions which speedilyled to his learning the reason for Vanes bois-terous send-off. For the alien act of May,1637, the first example of such legislature inthe annals of America, had immediate refer-ence to the religious controversy which wasraging in Boston when John Harvard reachedNew England. 260. 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
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