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In a mythologized nineteenth-century founding of Dartmouth College, Eleazar Wheelock leads pupils in song, presumably a Christian hymn.
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In this portrait, Occom points to a passage in what is likely the Bible. Behind him, perhaps to acknowledge a past life, hangs a bow and quivered arrows.
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Memorization and repetition afforded mental discipline and access to the languages and learning of Ancient Mediterranean. These notes in Latin were made by Hezekiah Calvin, an eleven-year-old Lenape (Delaware) Indian.
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Occom’s copy of a standard Hebrew grammar. Hebrew’s place in the Dartmouth curriculum reflected its significance as a biblical language.
