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In the beginning, there was Harvard
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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3:50am October 03 2025
In 1747, Yale president Thomas Clap wrote the first history of the college. A Harvard graduate, Clap began by describing the founding of his alma mater by "a small Handful of People scattered about in a Howling Wilderness." Connecticut, he wrote, supported Harvard and sent students there. "But afterwards upon Experience of the Difficulty and Charge of sending their Children so far (but from no Dislike to that College), they formed a Design of Founding a College in this Colony." Clap's original manuscript is preserved in the Yale archives.  |
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