Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-09
FROM OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT.

BATH, (MANE,) AUsusr 81, 1913.
Leaving Boston Tuesday evening O'Clock, in
the steamer Charter Oak for the Kennebec landed the
next morning yesterday at six o'clock, at Bath am,
therefore, fairly the region of Down East" But, hold
ing il to be good rule to do thing time, and to fin
sh job before beginning another must take the reader
back that venerable Of the Muses. the Halls
Of old Harvard, which induced from having amused
myself during the evening the passage from Boston in look
ing statistics Of that University, contained in
little volume, "The History OF Harvard College," by
SAMUEL A. Eliot, recently published by Little Brorn,
Boston.
HARVARD COLLEGE is the oldest literary institution in the
United States having been founded in 636sxteen years
after the landing Of the Pilgrims Plymouth Rock The
colony that time contained but lew hundred inhabitants
scattered territory forty fifty miles in length and
BREADTH struggling Tor in wild uncui-
waited country and surrounded by wakc savage tribes Yet
In these peculiar and trying circumstances that remarkable
band Of pioneers great nation resolved TO establish col
ege for the education of their children, and appropriated four
hundred pounds the year for that purpose appointing
twelve Of the principal OF the colony to make the
sary arrangements, "to take order for llege" Two
years after this in 1893, the Rev. John Harvard Of Charles
town. gave the college, by his will, about hundred
and eighty pounds money, and than three hundred
volumes Of books. This timely donation gave permanent
existence TO the college, which received the name Of is
early benefctor Other individuals began to follow the
example Of John Harvard and from that day to this he
college has been increasing in wealth and Importance and
possesses larger financial than any other literary
institution the country, unless Grard College, Pha5e
phia be exception.
The first class this college formed in l63s but what
the and the instruction for two years. the
cords do show In 1910 the Rev. Henry DUSsrEa
rived from England, and appointed the FIRST President
He represented having been emnenty qualified r the
saton and his administration highly beneficial the in
stuton The government Of the college under President
Dunster very strict and very primitive appears by the
following extracts from the college laws then established
"They THE sudens shall honor their parents the msgs
ates elders, TUTORS aud all who older than themselves
reason requires, being silent in their presence except
when asked question, not contrsdicting but showing all
those marks Of honor and which are in praise
worthy use, salung them with bow, standing uncover
ed" &c Again II any student shall violate the law Of
God and Of this College, either from perverseness from
gross negligence after he shall have been admonhed
he may be ,ohipped, if adult; but il an adult, his
shall be laid before the oveseers that notice may be
publicly taken him according to his deserts" And again
No scholar shall buy, SELL exchange any thing Of the value
Of siIpence, without the appreciation Of his parents guar