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Records relating to Harvard's ownership of the sloop Cyrus
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.793
Overview:
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, much of the fuel wood used in Boston was cut on farms in New Hampshire and Maine and transported to the city by coastal sloops (a type of smaller sailing vessels). Between 1793 and 1798, Harvard College maintained the sloop Cyrus to transport wood from the College's property in Maine, through the Boston harbor, and up the Charles River to Cambridge. The wood was both sold at market and used to supply the College. This collection contains ownership...
Records relating to the adoption of crimson as the official Harvard University color, 1858, 1910, 1950
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.910
Overview:
Crimson was first used as the Harvard College color by the Harvard crew team at the Boston City Regatta on June 19, 1858 and was officially designated as Harvard University’s color by a vote of the Harvard Corporation on May 23, 1910. Crimson is now used for various Harvard related insignia including pennants, doctoral gowns, neckties, and football helmets. This collection consists of two crimson silk handkerchiefs, one worn by the Harvard crew team in the Boston City Regatta in 1858, and a...
Records relating to the ceremonies in honor of Winston Churchill at Harvard University on 6 September 1943
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAI 20.943
Overview:
On September 6, 1943, Harvard University presented British Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Records include instructions to event staff, the text of Mr. Churchill's speech, newspaper clippings, photographs, and ephemera such as programs, order of exercises, samples of tickets, and place cards.
Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.970
Overview:
This collection documents the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard which was endowed in 1771 by the will of Boston merchant Nicholas Boylston (1716-1771). The will, statutes, and other related documents describe the rules and regulations of the Boylston Professorship and demonstrate the selection process used to recruit and evaluate candidates to fill faculty positions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at Harvard University.
Records relating to the founding of the Hersey Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Physic
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.980
Overview:
The committee reports and Corporation votes extracted from the Harvard Corporation meeting minutes in this collection document the legislative process by which the Hersey Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Physic, the Hersey Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery, and the Erving Professorship of Chemistry and Materia Medica, were established at Harvard College. The creation of these professorships led to the establishment of the Harvard Medical School in 1782.
Records relating to the publication of Harvard and the Federal Government, A Report to the Faculties and Governing Boards of Harvard University, 1959-1961
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.961
Overview:
As a result of government research expenditures during and following World War II, Harvard University, as well as other universities and colleges in the United States, became increasingly involved in federal programs. In order to assess the significance of this new relationship between the government and Harvard, the school undertook a study of the impact of federal programs on the University. This collection chiefly documents the preparation of Harvard and the Federal...
Seals
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1310
Overview:
The Harvard College seal was first created in the 17th century as a legal symbol of authentication to validate official documents created by the University's governing bodies. Between the earliest depiction of the College seal in 1643 and the more recent 1935 manifestation, there have been multiple designs of the seal, and while all have incorporated a shield, inscriptions including Harvard's current motto "Veritas," and embellishments, design details have varied over the years....
Wills naming Harvard as a beneficiary
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1404
Overview:
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Harvard College relied on government grants and tax allocations, town subscriptions, and private donations to fund the school. Donations were often made as bequests and recorded in a donor's will. This collection contains copies of wills that include bequests to Harvard, and related papers such as court records and certificates of death. Most of the documents are copies kept by the Harvard Corporation to manage bequests, or were created and donated to the...
Harvard University Department of Economics general office files
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAV 349.11
Overview:
These records are a central departmental file for the Department of Economics covering the administrations of Chairs Arthur Smithies and Seymour Edwin Harris as well as administrative matters preceding their chairmanships.
Harvard University Department of Economics records from chairmanship of Harold Hitchings Burbank
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAV 349.10
Overview:
Harold Hitchings Burbank (1887-1951) had considerable influcence on the Department of Econcomics through the first half of the twentieth century. These records document the administration of the Harvard Univeristy Department of Economics during that time.
Records of the Department of Physical Education : anthropometric measurements of Harvard students, 1860-1920
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Series Identifier: UAV 689.270 and UAV 689.270.1
Overview:
These data cards contain the anthropometric measurements of thousands of Harvard students who were subject for research directed by Dudley Allen Sargent.
Records of the Harvard University Department of Physics, 1879-1983 (textual records) and 2007-2013 (web archive)
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 691
Overview:
Physics has been a part of the college curriculum since 1642. These records document the efforts of the Harvard University Department of Physics to remain at the forefront of original experimental research through the development of curriculum, interaction with other sciences, construction of facilities and collaborative research.
Records of the Chairman of the Department of Social Relations, David McClelland, relating to research, 1960-1983
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAV 801.2000
Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics Office of Naval Research Technical Reports
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUF 360.859
Overview:
A series of monographic reports published by the Harvard University Division of Applied Physics in fulfillment of research contracts with the United States Office of Naval Research.
Documentary History of the Library
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUF 523.6.73
Overview:
This collection of printed documents, both published and unpublished, reflects the history, growth and management of the Harvard College Library from 1773 to 1879. Documents include Visiting Committee reports, library and sales catalogues, library regulations, circular letters to patrons and alumni, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, fundraising appeals, blank receipts for gifts to the library, and blank forms regarding borrowing privileges, book order requests, and arrival...
Drafts of Faculty votes
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAIII 27.80
Overview:
This collection contains drafts of five miscellaneous votes by the Harvard Faculty between 1742 and 1803 related to student behavior, both in specific cases and in the development of College rules. The Harvard Faculty, initially known as the Immediate Government, began holding meetings in 1725 to discuss educational and administrative concerns of the College. The group primarily consisted of the president of Harvard College, the professors, and the tutors. The documents in this collection...
Records of the Harvard East Asian Research Center, Director John K. Fairbank files
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAV 345.6
Overview:
The East Asian Research Center supported scholarship on China, Japan, and Korea and countries historically forming part of the ancient Chinese culture area. In 1977 the name was changed to the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. These records document the activities of the center and its Director, John K. Fairbank.
Registros de la escuela de verano cubana
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV_813.400
Overview:
Los registros de la Escuela Cubana de Verano documentan un programa residencial de verano de seis semanas realizado en la Universidad de Harvard en 1900 que instruyó a más de mil maestros cubanos en los últimos métodos educativos y cultura estadounidense. Compuesto principalmente por registros administrativos relacionados con la planificación y coordinación del programa a gran escala, también se incluyen publicaciones y fotografías de la escuela de verano. Estos materiales ofrecen...
Examinations,1836-2009
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUC 7000.xx
Overview:
This collection chiefly consists of final examinations given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, especially the undergraduate examinations from Harvard College. It also includes examinations from the Harvard Law School, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Graduate School of Business Administration, and the Lawrence Scientific School. Other types of examinations include questions for entrance, mid-year, honors, Ph.D., make-up, reading, divisional and general examinations.
Early Faculty minutes, 1725-1806
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAIII 5.5
Overview:
This collection contains the official minutes of Harvard University Faculty meetings held from 1725 to 1806, as well as "waste books" (volumes containing notes taken at the meetings which were later edited and augmented to create the official minutes) and other unofficial minutes taken in 1760 and from 1771 to 1800. These early minutes predate the existence of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (established in 1890) and were taken at meetings of what was then simply called "the Faculty," which...
Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard College, Radcliffe College, and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student records on microfilm
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAIII 15.75.14
Overview:
Negative microfilm copies of student record cards for Harvard College, Radcliffe College, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Suggestions for Harvard commencement and exhibition parts
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.790
Overview:
In the mid 1700s, Harvard administrators began incorporating English oratory into an undergraduate curriculum traditionally focused on Latin and Greek. To reflect the expanded emphasis on oratory, upperclassmen participated in English debates, dialogues, and orations on Commencement Day and in public exhibitions using subjects and questions provided by the Harvard Faculty. This collection contains handwritten questions and subjects suggested by the Harvard Faculty primarily in the 1810s and...
Harvard University Fine Arts Library : Correspondence of the Librarian and Heads of Departments,
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Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 402.195.17
Overview:
The Fogg Museum Library was replaced by Fine Arts Library in 1962; the Fine Arts Library is a division of the Harvard College Library. This series documents the activities of head of the Fine Arts Library, Wolfgang Freitag, the Acquisitions Librarian, James Hodgson, the Curator of Visual Collections, Helene Roberts, and other library administrators.
Records of the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Charles H. Haskins: transfer letter file
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 161.10
Overview:
The Records of the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Charles H. Haskins: transfer letter file, date from 1910 to 1924, and chiefly documents administrative matters related to the educational program and management of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937) was Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1908 to 1924, a professor of history (1902-1912), the Gurney Professor of History and Political Science...
Records of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Center for Field Studies
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: UAV 350.127.xx
Overview:
The Harvard University Graduate School of Education Center for Field Studies existed from 1950 to 1968 and engaged in analysis of educational problems made at the request of state and local boards of education, legislative committees and other educational agencies. The records consist of research results for publication and raw research files for a number of studies.
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