"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.