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Governor William Stoughton was a jolly man. Presiding over the witch trials in Salem, he had only nineteen hanged, although another was pressed to death for refusing to testify. If Judge Stoughton was, perhaps, overzealous in his religion, at least his fervor overflowed into education, for he endowed Harvard with several scholarships, a pasture, and Stoughton Hall. In 1700, during Increase Mather's presidency, Stoughton "College" was built at right angles to the cast end of Harvard Hall. The second brick building in the Yard, it had three stories and an attic lighted by dormer windows...
...England Chronicle and Essex Gazette." This short-lived publication, according to a contemporary, emitted "streams of intelligence and those patriotic songs and tracts which so pre-eminently animated the defenders of American liberty." All the enthusiasm aroused by rebellion must have subverted the Puritan spirit of Stoughton, for the foundations soon began to crumble, and in 1780 the building was razed...
...funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy as well as Stoughton. In 1805, new Stoughton appeared as a facsimile of Hollis, a mere shadow, robbed even of its distinctive coat of arms...
...Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to sea to recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club...
...other contenders in order were: the combination of Weld, Dudley, and Apley, four wins and three wins, three losses; Massachusetts and Straus, three wins, three losses, and a tie; Matthews tied the team of Lionel, Mower, and Hollis with two wins and five losses; Holworthy and Stoughton, one win and six losses, and Thayer North, which lost all seven. Grays 557 Thayer North 426 Holworthy 393 Hollis 350 Thayer Middle 307 Wigg West 305 Straus South 274 Wigg East 263 Stoughton 241 Matthews North...