But in 1636 most of New England was still untamed wilderness, Boston itself having been founded just ten years earlier, and Harvard was an unprepossessing little school without even a formal name.
只是在西元一六三六年創校時，整個新英格蘭地區還是「蠻荒之地」，波士頓城本身也只有短短十年不到的歷史，無怪乎「哈佛」最初只是個不起眼的小機構，連正式名稱都沒有。