COLLECTION
Identifier: HUD 3684
Records of the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Massachusetts, Iota of Massachusetts, and Alpha Iota of Massachusetts chapters, 1779-2011
Arguments prepared by Daniel Appleton White for meetings of Phi Beta Kappa, 1796-1797, 1796-1797 Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
/
Collection:
Records of the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Massachusetts, Iota of Massachusetts, and Alpha Iota of Massachusetts chapters, 1779-2011
/
Series:
II. Records of undergraduate members, circa 1782-1952
/
Sub-Series:
D. Dissertations, discourses, and disputations, 1796-1810
Scope and content
Three handwritten arguments prepared by Phi Beta Kappa member Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861; Harvard AB 1797) for discussion at meetings of the Alpha chapter at Harvard University in 1796 and 1797. The documents consist of a small paper notebook with a response to the prompt, "Whether the deeper studies, such as metaphysics, mathematics & natural philosophy, are entitled to our chief attention?" dated September 27, 1796, and prepared for debate with classmate Isaac Wellington (died...
An oration, Thaddeus M Harris A.M. now minister of Dorchester, 1790, 1790 Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
/
Collection:
Records of the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Massachusetts, Iota of Massachusetts, and Alpha Iota of Massachusetts chapters, 1779-2011
/
Series:
III. Records of literary exercises, 1790-2004
/
Sub-Series:
A. Orations and poems, 1790-1990
/
Sub-Series:
1. Orations and poems, 1788-1799
Scope and content
This small paper notebook contains a twenty-one-page handwritten oration on learned societies delivered by Phi Beta Kappa member Thaddeus Mason Harris on September 1, 1790. The oration is followed by five pages of "notes and illustrations" on the text. Title transcribed from title page. Item bound in blue-and-white floral wallpaper covers.
Formerly classified as HUD 3684.90.6.
An oration delivered at the request of the PBK society, at Cambridge. By Thomas W. Hooper, 1790, 1790 Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
/
Collection:
Records of the Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Massachusetts, Iota of Massachusetts, and Alpha Iota of Massachusetts chapters, 1779-2011
/
Series:
III. Records of literary exercises, 1790-2004
/
Sub-Series:
A. Orations and poems, 1790-1990
/
Sub-Series:
1. Orations and poems, 1788-1799
Scope and content
This small paper notebook contains a sixteen-page handwritten copy of an oration on "amiable and useful virtues" delivered by Phi Beta Kappa member Thomas W. Hooper on September 1, 1790. Title transcribed from the first page of text. Item bound in blue-and-white floral wallpaper covers.
Formerly classified as HUD 3684.90.7.