House, and also as College House No. 2-this was the first site of the first Harvard Law School, which occupied two rooms of its lower story. In front was a fence on which the whole Law School of those early days could easily perch. Next to this was a long structure called the Smith House; and on its site a little later, and farther back from the street, was a small one-story building which sheltered the College fire-engine.

About 50 feet north of College House No. 2, and near the location of the present Church Street, was College House No. I, a wooden three-story building with brick ends, long called by the students "Wiswall's Den." It contained 12 rooms, and these, together with the rooms in College House No. 2, were occupied by law students and undergraduates who could not get rooms in the Yard, and, says Dr. Peabody, "in great part by certain ancient resident graduates who had become waterlogged on their life voyage, by preachers who could not find willing listeners, by men lingering on the threshold of professions for which they had neither the courage nor capacity."(1)

In the lower story of this building was Marcus Remy's barber-shop, whose "sunny little room, fronting southwest upon the Common, rang with canaries and Java sparrows," wrote Lowell, and was "a museum of wonders." In it was also a haberdasher's shop, kept by two impoverished ladies of family, who rented to students, at two and three dollars, flimsy gowns for Commencement. Forty-one feet next north, towards the graveyard (where the Unitarian Church now stands), was the Manning House; and next the Deacon Kidder House, both owned and rented by the College.

Cambridge Common then extended from Waterhouse Street to Boylston Street, including the present Harvard Square. It was an unfenced, unimproved, dusty plain,-its grass cut up and scrubby, from the constant passage of herds of cattle driven down the Menotomy and Concord turnpikes on their way to Brighton, Boston, and beyond. On Commencement Days it was used as a great campus for the erection of booths and tents, like a county fair-ground.

In the middle of what is now Harvard Square stood the town pump and scales, and the market-house, a small square one-story

(1) Sixty Years Ago in Harvard Reminiscences, by A. P. Peabody (1888).

building (removed about 1830). Great elms lined both sides of the Square. In the middle of the Square stood also that old milestone, long located, after 1830, in front of Dane Hall, bearing the apparently lying legend at which so many law students have marveled, "8 miles to Boston A. D. 1737." They forgot that the road to Boston, prior to 1793, was over the Boylston Street Bridge, through Brookline to Roxbury, and over the Neck up Washington Street to the old State House on State Street.

Opposite the College Houses No. I and No. 2, in a lot carved out of the College grounds, stood the old meeting-house of the First Church, erected in 1756 on part of the President's orchard. Its north wall occupied the site of the south foundation of the present Dane Hall-"so Law and Divinity rest here on the same base," it has been said. In this building, the Provincial Congress, with John Hancock as its President, had met in 1774. Here, five years later, met the convention which framed the Massachusetts Constitution in 1779. Here, for 70 years, were celebrated all the College Commencement exercises and inauguration ceremonies. Here Lafayette was to be welcomed, seven years later, in 1824. In 1833, the church building was sold to the College and removed.

In the churchyard, near the present corner of Matthews Hall, was the College fire-engine house, before it was moved across the Square. Back of the church was the President's orchard. Next to the church, and standing where it now stands, was the President's, or Wadsworth House, erected in 1726. Sixty feet to the east, in what is now the College grounds, was an old house owned by the College, and rented in 1811 to Professor Ware. One hundred and twenty feet further east, about on the site of the present Boylston Hall, was another old house rented to Professor Hedge. Where the Gate of the Class of '76 now is, and extending back to the present site of Gore Hall, was the lot known as the "Tutor's Lot," or "Tutor's Orchard." East of this was the "ancient and unsightly" parsonage of the First Church, occupied up to 1807 by Rev. Abiel Holmes, the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes. (1) The house on the corner of Quincy Street (now known as the Peabody House) had just been built, in 1811, and was occupied in 1817 by members of the family of Chief Justice Francis Dana.

(1) Built in 1670, partly rebuilt in 1790, occupied after 1807 by Prof. Henry Ware, removed in 1843.

In the College Yard, Stoughton Hall, "a neat building," wrote President Dwight, had been built only thirteen years (1804); Holworthy Hall, five years (1812) (1). University Hall, called the "handsomest building in the State," had just been built, (1815), its architect being the famous Charles Bulfinch. In its basement was the College Kitchen. The ground floor had two dining-rooms, one used by seniors and sophomores, the other by freshmen and juniors. In the second and third stories was the College Chapel, with seats on one side for the seniors and sophomores and on the other for the juniors and freshmen, and with different entrance doors, "so that there might be no hostile collision on the stairs," says Dr. Peabody. "In front of the pulpit was a stage for public declamations and exhibitions and on each side of it a raised sentry-box occupied at daily prayers by a professor or tutor on the watch for misdemeanors. Opposite the pulpit was the organ with a double row of raised seats on each side-one for the choir, the other for parietal officers and graduates. There were two side galleries for families of the professors." In the second story of the southern end were two rooms for the use of the Corporation; and at the northern end and in the third story were six recitation rooms. Originally there was a roofed piazza on the front of the building, which was later removed to check the "grouping" of students, then a penal offence.

Just south of where the old College pump so long stood were the College wood-yard, and the College brewery, until it was burned by students in 1814. Massachusetts and Hollis Halls were the other dormitories, having 32 rooms each, the lower floors being reserved for freshmen. Harvard Hall contained the College Library in its second story; and in the lower story were the philosophical and physical chamber and apparatus, and the mineralogical cabinet. Holden Chapel, then divided into two stories, contained in its lower floor the chemical laboratory and lecture-room, and above a lecture-room. "The plan for

(1) The following curious letter is to be found in Harvard College Papers, Vol. VII, p. 10, written by President Kirkland to Treasurer Davis in 1812: "I find some gentlemen are sorry to have our new college receive so hard a name-Holworthy Hall-has two aspirates besides the W. & the T. H.-which twist and squeeze the organs not a little. Is there any other better or more suitable-or will you reconsider on account of the objection-which is of some consequence."