...volumes towards the endowment of the college. The original single building and its three acres of ground was thought by some to be " too gorgeous for a wilderness...yet too mean in others' apprehension for a college." According to the annals of the period the quaint discipline of the " boxing " of the undergraduates...

...It contained chambers, studies, a kitchen and buttery, with a turret on top. "It was thought by some too gorgeous for a wilderness, and yet too mean in others' apprehension for a college." Mr. Nathaniel Eaton was the first instructor of this school. The pupils boarded in his family, and...

...many Neighbouring Towns of note, being so neer, that their houses joyn with her Suburbs; the building thought by some to be too gorgeous for a Wilderness, and yet too mean in others apprehensions for a Colledg,1 it is at present inlarging by purchase of the neighbour houses; it hath...

...many Neighbouring Towns of note, being so neer, that their houses joyn with her Suburbs; the building thought by some to be too gorgeous for a Wilderness, and yet too mean in others apprehensions for a Colledg,1 it is at present inlarging by purchase of the neighbour houses; it hath...

...many neighboring towns of note, being so near, that their houses join with her suburbs. The building thought by some to be too gorgeous for a wilderness, and yet too mean in others' apprehensions for a college, it is at present enlarging by purchase of the neighbor houses. It hath...

...many neighboring towns of note, being so near, that their houses join with her suburbs. The building and Company apprehensions for a college, it is at present enlarging by purchase of the neighbor houses. It hath...

...description, but one point is clear. It was not the rude log schoolhouse that might have been expected. Indeed it was "thought by some to be too gorgeous for a Wilderness." 8 -"- True to their British craving for conventionality, the founders had somehow managed to put together,...

...Cambridge is likened to a bowlinggreen, and the college building is spoken of as a " faire building," " thought by some to be too gorgeous for a wilderness, and yet too mean in others apprehension for a Colledg." Johnson's book was published in London in 1654. The next description of the building which...

...many Neighboring Towns of note, being so neer, that their houses join with her Suburbs, the building thought by some to be too gorgeous for a Wilderness, and yet too mean in others apprehensions for a Colledg, it is at present inlarging by purchase of the neighborhouses." For two...

...for commons, lectures, and exercises ; also a library and chambers and studies for the students' use. It was thought by some to be " too gorgeous for a wilderness," while others said it was too mean for a college. At best it was but an humble edifice, although the...