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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 73 73 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 27 27 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 13 13 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 8 8 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 6 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 6 6 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 5 5 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 4 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
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Radcliffe College. Arthur Gilman, Regent of Radcliffe College. In the year 1643, the Rev. Thomas Weld, pastor of the church in Roxbury, received from Lady Ann Moulson, of London, widow, the sum of one hundred pounds current English money, for Harvard College in New England. See A History of Harvard University, by Benjamin Peirce, p. 12. The purpose which Lady Moulson had in making this gift is expressed in the formal receipt which with great business sagacity she exacted of Mr. Weld. That document has been preserved, and two consequences have followed. Lady Moulson's intention in contributing the money out of Christian desire to advance good learning, was to bestow the income upon such poor scholler as the college might think best, though it was stipulated that in case any kinsman of hers were admitted to the college, the income should be his until he had attained his master's degree, even though it might at the time be awarded to. another. This fund, as Mr. Andrew McFar
ings, the record of those beginnings would not be the scant and incomplete story that has come down to us. It is not until 1643 that we find any authentic account of a school in Cambridge. In that year the curtain suddenly rises on Elijah Corlett's ly and prominent share. It chimes in with this theory of an earlier school that Mr. Corlett, when we first hear of him in 1643, was already in the possession of an established reputation as a teacher; he had very well approved himself for his abilitand is occupied to-day by the Washington Grammar School,—in a sense, the lineal descendant of the faire Grammar Schoole of 1643. It is a curious history,—this transformation of a grammar school of the colonial type to a grammar school of the moderwall of the Washington building tells the reader that that school is the lineal descendant of the faire Grammar Schoole of 1643. The Cambridge High schools. In 1838 a high school was organized in Cambridgeport for the entire town, in a building