It is probable that few of our students are aware of the fact that one of the earliest attempts to give the Indian a higher school or college education was made at Cambridge, and by our college authorities, but under the charge of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. A building capable of accommodating twenty students was erected at a cost of four hundred pounds. It stood where Grays now stands. Only one Indian managed to get a degree. He bore the euphonious name of Calet Cheeshahteaumuck.
The failure of the enterprise was evidently not due to lack of intellectual ability on the part of the students, for one who died during his course at the age of twenty years, is described by the President of the college at that time as an "acute gramarian, an extraordinary Latin poet, and a good Greek one." The building, after the school was given up, because the printing house in which John Eliot's Indian Bible was printed. It was finally destroyed by fire.
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