If Grandfather took pride in any thing, it was in being the possessor of such an honorable and historic elbow chair.
"I know not precisely who next got possession of the chair, after Governor Vane went back to England," said Grandfather.

"But there is reason to believe that President Dunster sat in it, when he held the first commencement at Harvard College.

You have often heard, children, how careful our forefathers were, to give their young people a good education.
They had scarcely cut down trees enough to make room for their own dwellings, before they began to think of establishing a college.

Their principal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers call Harvard College a school of the prophets." "Is the college a school of the prophets now ?" asked Charley.
"It is a long while since I took my degree, Charley.

You must ask some of the recent graduates," answered Grandfather.