A

HISTORY

OF

HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

FROM

ITS FOUNDATION, IN THE YEAR 1636,

ΤΟ

THE PERIOD OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

BY THE LATE BENJAMIN PEIRCE, A. M.,

LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY.

ME COMMUNE BONUM, PRÆSERTIM GLORIA CHRISTI,
IMPULIT, ET CARE POSTERITATIS AMOR.

Wilson. Eleg. in Joh. Harvardum.

CAMBRIDGE:

BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND COMPANY,

BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

1833.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by LYDIA R. PEIRCE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

CHARLES FOLSOM, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.

TO

THE HONORABLE PAINE WINGATE,

THE ELDEST SURVIVING GRADUATE,

AND

TO THE OTHER SONS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

THIS WORK IS,

AT THE REQUEST OF THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY,

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE EDITOR.