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ward Room, on a great Fire, the Juices forced out at the End 

 of short Billets of Wood, by the Heat of the Flame, on which 

 they were laid, yett froze into Ice, at their coming out. This 

 Extremity of the Cold caused mee to desist from the purpose, 

 which I was upon; because I saw it impossible to serve the 

 Lord, without such Distraction as was inconvenient. 



(January 11, 1719-20) 



"Tis dreadful cold. My Ink-glass in my Standish is froze 

 & splitt, in my very stove. My Ink in my very pen suffers a 

 congelation : but my witt much more. "... 



" Sabbath, Jan. 24, 1686, Friday night and Satterday were 

 extream cold, so that the Harbour frozen up, and to the 

 Castle. This day so cold that the Sacramental Bread is 

 frozen pretty hard, and rattled sadly as broken into the 

 plates. Samuel Sewall. 



" Lord's Day, Jan. 15, 1715-6. An Extraordinary Cold 

 Storm of Wind and Snow. Blows much worse as coming 

 home at Noon, and so holds on. Bread was frozen at the 

 Lord's Table. . . . Though twas so Cold, yet John Tuckerman 

 was baptised. At six a-clock my ink freezes so that I can 

 hardly write by a good fire in my Wive's Chamber. Yet was 

 very comfortable at Meeting. Laus Deo. Samuel Sewall. ' ' 2 



Such was the cradle of higher education in America. 



In 1636 the Colony Court ''agreed to give 400 towards a 

 schoole or collidge," which in 1637 was located at Cambridge 

 and later received its name from its first patron, the Rev. 

 John Harvard, who died in Charlestown in 1638, leaving one 

 half of his estate (about 800) and his library to the infant 

 college. The first of the buildings erected was known as ' ' The 

 Indian Collidge" with rooms for twenty youthful savages, 

 several of whom attended, but only one of whom graduated 

 from it. History repeats itself in the case of many of the 

 ''youthful savages" within its walls today. Here the first 

 college text-books were printed, including the Apostle Eliot's 

 translation of the Bible into the Indian language, primers, 

 grammars, tracts, etc. It is possible that the missionary spirit 

 of the founders of the college was not a wholly disinterested 

 one, since many of its funds were obtained abroad for the 

 express purpose of converting the heathen; or in more 

 materialistic terms, making a bad Christian out of a good 

 savage. 



Harvard College was followed by William and Mary's 

 College (1692), Yale (1700), Princeton (1746), the University 



"Hanscom, "The Heart of the Puritan," pp. 29-30, 210. By permis- 

 sion of the Macmillan Company. 



