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what may befall those who come after them, "nee, 

 haec coelestia spectantes, ista terrestria contemnunt" It 

 is a comforting faith that those who have "gone forth 

 weeping, bearing precious seed," shall be permitted 

 to see and share the joys of the harvest with their suc- 

 cessors who gather it. 



I was a contemporary of the pious and bountiful 

 Lady Radcliffe, for whom your college is named. My 

 honored husband, Charles Hoar, Sheriff of Glouces- 

 ter in England, by his death in 1638, left me a widow 

 with six children. We were of the people called by 

 their revilers Puritans, to whom civil liberty, sound 

 learning, and religion were very dear. The times were 

 troublous in England, and the hands of princes and 

 prelates were heavy upon God's people. My thoughts 

 were turned to the new England where precious Mr. 

 John Harvard had just lighted that little candle 

 which has since thrown its beams so far, where there 

 seemed a providential refuge for those who desired a 

 church without a Bishop, and a state without a King. 



I did not, therefore, like the worshipful Lady Rad- 

 cliffe, send a contribution in money; but I came 

 hither myself, bringing the five youngest of my chil- 

 dren with me, and arrived at Braintree in the year 

 1640. 



From that day Harvard College has been much in 

 my mind; and I humbly trust that my coming has 

 not been without some furtherance to its well being. 

 My lamented husband in his will directed that our 

 youngest son, Leonard, should be "carefullie kept at 

 Schoole, and when hee is fitt for itt to be carefullie 



