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 sions, with all sorts of outbuildings, ready for the first comers. Their Episcopal church too (Christ Church) made most commodious quarters. But the largest and best-arranged single source of accommodations was found in the buildings of Harvard College, which was promptly hustled out of town. “In the College,” or Massachusetts Hall, which normally housed sixty-four “scholars,” were squeezed no less than six hundred and forty men; “in the New College,” or Hollis (built 1764), was a like incredible number; “in the Old College”—the first Stoughton—were two hundred and forty; and “in the North Chapel” (Holden) one hundred and sixty were most uncomfortably bestowed.