Dr. Hara D. Charlier, president of Central Lakes College in Minnesota, was recommended unanimously by the Board of Trustees following a national search, pending approval by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
Moreover, the 13 Colonies wanted to be free and independent from the Crown but also from one another. Each looked upon itself as sovereign -- that is, independent.
In 1774, the town of Pittsfield voted to condemn the Boston Tea Party, describing its participants as "irregular and in defiance of the good and wholesome laws of the land and to be detestable and [against] all good order."
