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Extract from the will of Nicholas Boylston (manuscript copy), 1772 February 11 Digital
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Harvard University Archives
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Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1Identifier: UAI 15.970
Scope and Content:
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) and demonstrates the selection process used to recruit and evaluate candidates to fill faculty positions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at Harvard University. The extract...
Draft of the Rules, Directions, and Statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College, [ca. 1804] Digital
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Harvard University Archives
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Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2Identifier: UAI 15.970
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This original draft was probably written by Eliphalet Pearson (1752-1826) as a member of the committee charged with the task of establishing the rules, directions, and statutes for the Boylston Professorship by the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. This draft is heavily edited and contains many cross outs through the text.
Memoranda, Professor McKean, [ca. 1809] Digital
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Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3Identifier: UAI 15.970
Scope and Content:
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) and demonstrates the selection process used to recruit and evaluate candidates to fill faculty positions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at Harvard University. The extract...