Jordan Retro 5 Harvard Customs from a 1730 Grad's

His son Cyril, a lawyer and physician, lived almost three times as long as his father, dying in Voluntown, CT in 1816.
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Comfort Carpenter belonged to that very small percentage of Colonial era people who had a chance to get well educated. In his day there were no public schools as we know them and the majority of people could neither read nor write.
Little is known of the nine years of Comfort’s life after he graduated from Harvard. Descendants have claimed he was a militia captain, a lawyer and a merchant. One tradition states he was killed by Indians at Charlestown, NH, but his gravestone is in Rehoboth,
The same year he graduated, Comfort Carpenter married Huldah Bowen. He died at a very young age in 1739, leaving her with five small children, Chloe, Cynthia,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Cyril,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Orinda and Comfort, who moved to what is now Maine.
No freshman shall wear his hat in the College yard, except it rains, snows, hails, or he is on horseback, or has both hands full,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or the like.
Sources: Records which were in the private Carpenter manuscript collection of Admiral Charles Carpenter of Drexel Hill, PA in the 1970s, and an article titled Comfort Carpenter’s Scrapbook Gives Harvard Customs, which appeared in Vol. 4, No.2 (August, 1977) of a genealogy magazine, The Epistle, published in Machias, ME.
Comfort titled his remarks “Customs” and outlined them as follows:
Comfort’s scrapbook has on its cover what is known as the “greyhound arms” of the Carpenter family and, written in Latin, the name of his son, Cyril. Some family researchers have speculated that Cyril,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too, attended Harvard and took his father’s scrapbook with him.
Scrapbook Cover Names Son
Little Known About Comfort Carpenter
When Comfort graduated from Harvard in 1730 the college was then more than 100 years old, being the oldest institution of higher learning in America. It later graduated seven U.S. presidents and more than 40 Nobel laureates.
No freshman shall wear his hat in his senior’s chamber.
No freshman shall ask his senior an impertinent question. No freshman shall intrude into his senior’s company.
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Freshmen may wear their hat on at dinner time, except when they receive commons of Bread and Beer.Comfort Carpenter (1709-1739) was the son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Read) Carpenter. He was born at Rehoboth, MA, and was a great-grandson of the immigrant, William Carpenter, who founded Rehoboth. His grandfather, also named William, was a man of letters and Rehoboth’s first town clerk.
No freshman shall talk saucily to his senior, or speak to him with his hat on; but if he be a graduate, “Sir” must be put before his name; if an undergraduate, “Sir” after his name.
No freshman shall laugh in his senior’s face.
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