Harvard College

When it was done, the eager, whispered question which sprang to almost every lip was, Who is this? End of chapter 1 The reader hardly needs to be told that it was Phillips Brooks.

So closely identified were his later and earlier years with Boston and Harvard College, that it is hard to realize the existence of a period when Phillips Brooks was something of a stranger in the place of his birth and longest residence.

None had a better inherited right to be known in Massachusetts than he who took pleasure in calling John Cotton his very great-grandfather.

This relationship was on his father's side.

To find himself in the same scholastic succession with Franklin, the Adamses, John Hancock, Emerson, Motley, Sumner, and Phillips, this alone must have been a strong inward stimulus to a boy keenly responsive to suggestion.

Outwardly he made himself remembered as one who wrought a just blending of study and play, taking part and pleasure in baseball games on the common but not in the sports or pranks which called forth the more boisterous elements of young human nature.

With the class of 1855 he entered Harvard College, and here his record followed naturally upon that of his school days.

Felton, Agassiz, and Longfellow were members of the strong teaching force, at the head of which stood President Walker, one of the men to whom Phillips Brooks felt himself most indebted.

Cordially including the young man.

Mr. Fedgerberry's son has been to Harvard College.

Well, well, quite a trip.

Well, Mr. Morton, I hope this is not a bad time for me to present a little matter to you.

That's bound to be.

It's written in the layer of land and the way the river flows.

But first tell us about Harvard College, Felix.

Ain't it a fine thing for us all to have Felix coming home from that wonderful place? You make it seem wonderful.

Tired of this and went to Chicago, worked in a printing office, peddled soap from house to house, shoved lumber around the docks, read all the books I could find, wrote letters back to country newspapers, and became a reporter.

Next got a job as traveling salesman, taught in a district school, read Emerson, Carlyle, and Macaulay, worked in a soap factory, read Shakespeare and committed most of Hamlet to memory with an eye on the stage, became manager of the soap factory, then partner, evolved an idea for the concern and put it on the track of making millions, knew it was going to make millions, did not want them, sold out my interest for $75,000, and went to Harvard College.

tramped through Europe, wrote for sundry newspapers, penned two books, couldn't find a publisher, taught night school in Buffalo, tramped through Europe some more and met William Morris, caught it, came back to East Aurora and started Chautauqua Circles, studied Greek and Latin with a local clergyman, raised trotting horses, wrote Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, and so that is how I got my education, such as it is.

I am a graduate of the University of Hard Knocks, and I've taken several post-graduate courses.

But alas, Cotton Mather's conversation was limited to yea, yea, and nay, nay, generally nay, nay, and he was in dead earnest.

In the Boston Public Library is a book written in sixteen hundred eighty-five by Cotton Mather entitled Wonders of the Invisible World.

This book received the endorsement of the governor of the province and also of the president of Harvard College.

The author cites many cases of persons who were bewitched and also makes the interesting statement that the devil knows Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, but speaks English with an accent.

I think what-

So what about universities saying, "We're only gonna give out a certain number of As in a given class"? This is effectively the new policy at Harvard College, where the university's undergrad program is housed.

They're going to start capping A's at 20%.

If I could have stood up and, like, given, like, a- an ovation to Harvard for their change in grading policy, I would.

All children were taught to read and write.

They had been settled at Plymouth, Salem, and Boston less than twenty years when they established Harvard College, chiefly for the education of ministers, who took the highest social rank in the colonies and were the most influential people.

Lawyers and physicians were not so well educated.

As for lawyers, there was but little need of them since disputes were mostly settled either by the ministers or the selectmen of the towns who were the most able and respectable men of the community.