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361:'Index Biblicus: or, the Historical Books of the Holy Scripture abridged. With each book, chapter, and sum of diverse matter distinguished, and a chronology to every eminent epocha of time superadded. With an Harmony of the Four Evangelists and a table thereunto, &c.' , London, 1668 (another edition 1669). It was afterwards reissued as 'Index Biblicus Multijugus: or, a Table to the Holy Scripture. The second edition, &c.' , London, 1672. 141: 532: 250:, Boston. He brought a letter, dated 5 February 1672, addressed to the magistrates and ministers in Massachusetts Bay by thirteen nonconformist ministers in and around London, friends of the colony and agents in raising funds for a new college building, who strongly recommended Hoar for the post of president of Harvard as successor to 333:
friends. He left his own, cross'd seas, and for amends was here extoll'd, envy'd, all in a breath, his noble consort leaves is drawn to death. Stranger chances may befall us ere we die, blest they who arrive well eternity, God grant some names, o though New Englands friend, don't sooner fade than thine, if times don't mend.
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at this time. He modernized technical education by introducing a garden and orchard, a workshop, and a chemical laboratory to Harvard. He was the first president of Harvard College who was also a graduate of it; but he was not well liked by his students or the people of Massachusetts, in part because
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Leonard Hoar - died Nov.28,1675 in Boston a.45, and interred here Dec.6, new gs. Three precious friends under this tombstone lie, patterns to aged, youth, & infancy, a great mother, her learned son, with child, the first and last went free. He was exil'd in love to Christ, this country, and dear
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was educated at Harvard by Hoar, one of only three students to graduate from Harvard in 1673. He was also one of the few to come to Hoar's defense in 1674 or 1675, just before Hoar was forced to resign. Some members of the corporation had combined against him, with the result that all the students,
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about 1630, he was the fourth son of Charles Hoare, by Joanna Hinkesman of Gloucester. Some time after the death of his father in 1638 he emigrated with his mother to America. Hoar, as he thenceforth called himself, graduated at
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with the exception of three, had left. Sewall later argued that "the causes of the lowness of the Colledge were external as well as internal."
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Bridget, who married, on 21 June 1689, the Rev. Thomas Cotton of London, a liberal benefactor of Harvard College; and
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in 1650, and in 1653 returned to England, where he became a preacher. Through the interest of
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the regicide, died at Boston, Massachusetts, on 25 May 1723. By her he had two daughters:
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At all events the students fell away from the president, and 'set themselves to
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of his radical religious views. The facts of his time in office remain obscure.
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In 1672 Hoar went again to Massachusetts to preach, by invitation, at the
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Hoar had high ambitions for Harvard as research centre, as he wrote to
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The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass
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minister and educator, who spent a short and troubled term as
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He produced work on biblical scholarship. He was author of:
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He was forced to resign ... 'his grief threw him into a
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Index

The Reverend
Harvard College
Charles Chauncy
Urian Oakes
Gloucestershire
Boston
Massachusetts

Congregational
President of Harvard College
Gloucestershire
Harvard College
Henry Mildmay
Wanstead
Essex
1662 Act of Uniformity
Cambridge Master of Arts
Doctor of Medicine
per literas regias
Timothy Dwight
Dwight family
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight V
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Yale University
Old South Church
Charles Chauncy
Urian Oakes
Robert Boyle
Samuel Sewall

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