A history of the United States for schools . the pastures, while pigs rootedin the clearings, and helped to make ready the land forthe plowman. Wheat and rye and other Europeangrains were soon made to grow here, but the settlerswere greatly benefited by the native maize, or Indiancorn, which they found cultivated by the red men. Amid the hurry of pioneer work the interests of edu-cation were not forgotten. In order to keep theirgovernment safely under their own control, the settlers 1 One of the oldest wooden houses in North America. 96 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. VI. allowed nobody but
A history of the United States for schools . the pastures, while pigs rootedin the clearings, and helped to make ready the land forthe plowman. Wheat and rye and other Europeangrains were soon made to grow here, but the settlerswere greatly benefited by the native maize, or Indiancorn, which they found cultivated by the red men. Amid the hurry of pioneer work the interests of edu-cation were not forgotten. In order to keep theirgovernment safely under their own control, the settlers 1 One of the oldest wooden houses in North America. 96 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. VI. allowed nobody but members of their own Congrega-tional churches to vote at elections or to hold order to fit growing children for membership in theCongregational churches, it was necessary that theyshould know how to read the Bible, and commonschools were founded for this purpose. So many ofthe leading settlers were university graduates, mostlyfrom Cambridge, that a college seemed necessary forthe colony. In 1636, it was voted to establish such a. ^^ik^/n^ya^i6ri^^^mcMm (om/oncl. college at Newtown, three miles west of Boston. TwoFounding ycars later, a young clergyman, John Harvard,Coulge!^^ dying childless, bequeathed his books and half1636. his estate to the new college, which was forth-with called by his name ; while in honor of the mother 1 From the oldest known print of Harvard College, engraved in 1726;and representing the college as it appeared when ninety years old. It isnow in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Thebuilding on the right, Massachusetts Hall, is still in use. §§ 45) 46. NEW ENGLAND, 97 university, the name of the town was changed to Cam-bridge. 45. Enemies of the New Colony. In all these thingsthe settlers of Massachusetts were going ahead anddoing just as they pleased. King Charles did not liketo see such liberties taken with affairs of church andstate. Besides, the new colony had some bitter enemiesin England, among others, Sir Ferdinan
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