FUNSTERS WILL COMMEMORATE TWIN ANNIVERSARIES BY FORMAL DINNER

Ten-year-old Dunster House will have its first real birthday party at a formal dinner on Monday evening, when the Funsters will commemorate both the occasion of the founding of there house and the 300th anniversary of Henry Dunster's becoming President of the College.

The main feature of the evening will be the presentation of a stone bench to the House by the staff. This seat is being given in memory of the late Chester Noyes Greenough '98, first Master of Dunster, and will be placed under the elm tree in the main court.

Greenough's successor, Professor Clarence H. Haring '07, Master of Dunster House, will preside at the dinner which will be attended by President Conant '14, President-emeritus Lowell '77, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, and the Masters of the other Houses, Speeches will follow the dinner.

Dunster Has Changed

Were Henry Dunster's spirit to roam the property of the University Monday, he would find the grounds and buildings slightly changed from the one, half-completed class room shack with "no floor laid in and, above the hall, no wall separating the studies."

Dunster succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, the first school Master, a "rare scholar" but one who fled after having corrected one of his assistants, for it is recorded that Eaton "beat him for nearly two hours with a walnut tree plant big enough to have killed a horse and a yard in length." For this disciplinary action the public demanded his discharge and a 30 pound fine.

A victim of disunity in his own family. Dunster was sued 14 times by the ungrateful children of his first wife whom he had brought up after her death. He was also tried in court for "failing to present his infant daughter for baptism."

Branded as Heretic

Dunster was branded as a heretic and a dangerous character because he expressed his belief that infants should not be baptized, but that baptism should be postponed until persons were old enough to know whether they desired to be baptized or not. This stand caused a great furore among the Puritan inhabitants of Boston and Cambridge.

The Board of Overseers could not discharge Dunster for this belief, but when he expressed the idea publicly in church one Sunday he was brought into criminal court for "disturbing the peace upon the Lord's dare, at Cambridge July 80. 1654, to the dishonor of the name of Christ, his truth and minister." This statement gave the Board the excuse for which they were looking, and immediately after this church declaration he was formally removed from the Presidency.

Billis Paid With Goods

In Dunster's day college bills were not paid with money, but with various kinds of foodstuffs. These bills might be paid in wheat, malt, apples, rye, or butter. Cattle, on the hoof, such as cows, oxen, sheep, lambs, and steers, were acceptable; as were cattle slaughtered for meat