...... ... . . _ , -ii .,-,^r, spirit ofthe with the prevailing spirit of the period. In 1768, student.. when the patronage of American manufactures was the...the presidency of Langdon, some of the Tories among xxvIII' the students were in the practice of bringing " India ceTonac- tea" into commons, and drinking...

...undergraduates early exhibited their sympathy Patriotic with the prevailing spirit of the period. In 1768, 'tude when the patronage of American manufactures was the...expected in the College than in the world. Early in * See Massachusetts Gazette, 7 January, 1768. CHAPTER the presidency of Langdon, some of the Tories...

...Thomas Hollis, gives the following account of the effects of the political excitements of the tunes on the students. " The removal of the General Court...leave it to age and experience to check their ardor." 1 In 1770, also, as well as in 1769, the legislature sat in Cambridge, thus continuing to fan the patriotic...

...they have sometimes wrought themselves up to such a pitch of enthusiasm that it has been difficult to keep them within due bounds. But their tutors are...patriots, and choose to leave it to age and experience to correct their ardor. The corporation have at length chose a President. His name is LOCKE — a truly...

...they have sometimes wrought themselves up to such a pitch of enthusiasm that it has been difficult to keep them within due bounds. But their tutors are...patriots, and choose to leave it to age and experience to correct their ardor. The corporation have at length chose a President. His name is LOCKE — a truly...

...by the world outside is shown by the quaint statement of a minister of the time that " the students' tutors are fearful of giving too great a check to...which may, hereafter, fill the country with patriots." Within six months of the election of Samuel Langdon, Harvard's eleventh president, the battle of Lexington...

...1 737) of the Corporation wrote to Thomas Hollis (who as a ' Republican ' was doubtless pleased) : The young gentlemen are already taken up with politics....leave it to age and experience to check their ardor. The earliest college club that has in some form continued to the present day was founded as a direct...

...benefactor of the college in the early 1770s, are already taken up with politics. They have caught the spirit of liberty. This has always been encouraged,...choose to leave it to age and experience to check their ardor.186 This was Harvard; but much the same might have been said at Princeton or William and Mary....

...spirit of liberty. This has always been encouraged bul they have sometimes been wrought up to such pitch of enthusiasm that it has been difficult for...leave it to age and experience to check their ardor." Thereafter the events which finally culminated in the clash of arms followed one another in rapid succession....