The puritan age 1636-1707 : 'First flower of their wilderness' -- School of the prophets -- Decline and revival -- Aaron's rod 1708-1806 : The great Leverett -- Wadsworth to Langdon -- 'Good old colony times' -- 'Through change and through storm' -- Federalists and unitarians -- The Augustan age 1806-1845 : President Kirkland -- Expansion and reform -- President Quincy -- The age of transition 1846-1869 : Minor prophets -- War and peace -- The Olympian age 1869-1933 : President Eliot -- The harvest season -- College life from war to war -- The Lowell administration -- 'The age that is waiting before' : 'To advance learning'