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Letter from Charles Follen to Henry Ware, Sr., December 12, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 116Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Report on exercises in German and ethics conducted by Follen at the Theological School.

Report from the standing committee appointed to examine the treasurer's accounts, December 18, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 117Identifier: UAI 5.125
Scope and Contents: Signed by Charles Jackson and Francis C. Gray, the report states that the committee found all accounts managed by Ebenezer Francis to be in order, and expresses their appreciation for Francis' diligence. The committee further responds to a request by Francis to review certain older gifts and bequests to the College, and permit their reassignment to "more appropriate" categories in the treasurer's books. The report makes a number of recommendations for streamlining and transferring funds...

Report on Boylston's will, December 8, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 118Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Letter to the President and Fellows of Harvard College from Charles Jackson on behalf of a committee to consider the bequest of Ward Nicholas Boylston, recommending it be accepted.

Extract from the will of Ward Nicholas Boylston, March 27, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 119Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Boylston's will provides additional monies for funds established by his previous gifts to Harvard for elocution and medical prizes, an anatomical museum and library, and chemical laboratory. The will also bequeaths portraits by John Singleton Copley of three Boylston family members and John Adams, and one of John Quincy Adams by Gilbert Stuart.

Letter from Andrews Norton, Cambridge, to the Corporation, December 12, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 120Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Informs the Corporation he has returned to Cambridge and resumed his exercises at the Theological School. Norton, the Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, had taken a leave of absence for health reasons.

Letter from Sylvanus Cobb, Boston, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, December 22, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 121Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Requests permission to use the library, citing College laws that admit certain classes of people who live within ten miles of the university but are not Harvard graduates. Cobb notes he recently settled in Malden as a minister.

Treasurer's monthly statement for November, December 30, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 122Identifier: UAI 5.125
Scope and Contents: The third volume of the second series of College Papers contains original correspondence, financial and legal documents, memoranda, and committee and faculty reports, dated May 1828 to September 1829, spanning the tenures of acting president Henry Ware, Sr., and president Josiah Quincy, treasurer Ebenezer Francis, and steward Charles Saunders. Francis Calley Gray, the first secretary of Harvard Corporation, is a frequent correspondent. A number of letters concern Ware’s service...

Memo of Deeds of Harvard College as recorded in Middlesex, January 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 123Identifier: UAI 5.125
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List of deeds to property transferred to Harvard College, dating from the 1661 purchase of Cambridge land from John Betts to 1829.

Letter from Frederick Baylies, Edgartown, to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, January 1, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 124Identifier: UAI 5.125
Scope and Contents: Report from Baylies on schools he helped administer, primarily for Wampanoag and Narragansett tribes, in southern New England in 1828; his letter contains names of the teachers employed, some of whom were local Indigenous women like Betsey Carter and Esther Howwoswee, and data on student enrollment, literacy, and length of the school sessions. Baylies also used a math textbook by Warren Colburn in his curriculum, possibly First lessons in intellectual arithmetic,...

H. Ware's report last term, January 1, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 125Identifier: UAI 5.125
Scope and Contents: Report by Henry Ware, Sr., on the Department of Theology for the first term ending December 24, 1828, addressed to the Corporation. Items discussed are the duties of the Hollis Professor of Divinity, attendance and attention of students at lectures, and number of students matriculating. "With the exception of the outrage committed upon the rooms of the Freshman class in September, the term was one of more than usual order and quiet, and, I believe, of not less than the usual degree of...

Letter from Joseph Story, Boston, to Nathaniel Bowditch, January 1, 1829?

Item — Volume: 3, item: 126Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Story writes that he is prepared to approve the choice of Josiah Quincy as president of Harvard when the Board of Overseers meets to vote on the appointment. He also authorizes fellow Overseer Bowditch to cast a vote on his behalf if the meeting occurs when Story is absent from Cambridge.

Letter from John S. Popkin, Cambridge, to Francis C. Gray, January 7, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 127Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Popkin writes that he is well enough to resume his duties as Eliot Professor but suggests the College retain C.C. Felton, who had been serving as a Tutor in Greek in Popkin's absence.

Certificate from George Tucker, University of Virginia, December 30, 1828

Item — Volume: 3, item: 128Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Tucker, professor of Modern Philosophy and late chairman of the faculty the University of Virginia, certifies John Preston completed courses on various subjects while he was a student there. Enclosed with a January 12, 1829, letter from Preston to Francis C. Gray applying for resident graduate status at Harvard.

Letter from John Preston, Boston, to Francis C. Gray, January 12, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 129Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Application for privileges of a resident graduate at Harvard. Enclosed with a certificate from his alma mater, the University of Virginia, as well as a letter from Henry Ware, Sr., referring the matter to the Corporation.

Letter from Henry Ware, Sr., to Francis C. Gray, January 12, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 130Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Respecting an application by John Preston to be a resident graduate at the College.

Letter from Henry Ware, Sr., to the Corporation, January 22, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 131Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Regarding his duties and salary as acting president of Harvard.

Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, January 24, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 132Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Submitted by Walter Channing, dean of the Harvard medical faculty, to Corporation Secretary Francis C. Gray.

Extract from George Partridge's will, January 31, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 133Identifier: UAI 5.125
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References Partridge's bequest to Harvard to promote theological education.

Report from the committee to whom was referred a communication from the Directors of the Theological School, January 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 134Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Proposal to establish and finance a professorship of the Pastoral Care, signed by Charles Jackson and Francis C. Gray and addressed to the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Statutes of the Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence & the Pastoral Care, January 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 135Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Draft in an unknown hand outlining proposed duties of the professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care, including instruction in elocution, composition and delivery of sermons, and ecclesiastical polity. A number of lines are crossed out.

Treasurer's monthly statement for January, February 1, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 136Identifier: UAI 5.125
Scope and Contents: The third volume of the second series of College Papers contains original correspondence, financial and legal documents, memoranda, and committee and faculty reports, dated May 1828 to September 1829, spanning the tenures of acting president Henry Ware, Sr., and president Josiah Quincy, treasurer Ebenezer Francis, and steward Charles Saunders. Francis Calley Gray, the first secretary of Harvard Corporation, is a frequent correspondent. A number of letters concern Ware’s service...

Treasurer's monthly statement for February, March 1, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 137Identifier: UAI 5.125
Scope and Contents: The third volume of the second series of College Papers contains original correspondence, financial and legal documents, memoranda, and committee and faculty reports, dated May 1828 to September 1829, spanning the tenures of acting president Henry Ware, Sr., and president Josiah Quincy, treasurer Ebenezer Francis, and steward Charles Saunders. Francis Calley Gray, the first secretary of Harvard Corporation, is a frequent correspondent. A number of letters concern Ware’s service...

Letter from George C. Shattuck, Boston, to Francis C. Gray, March 3, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 138Identifier: UAI 5.125
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Accepts appointment to the Boylston Medical Committee.

Letter from John G. Palfrey to Francis C. Gray, March 20, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 139Identifier: UAI 5.125
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About the salary of the professor of Pulpit Eloquence, for which Henry Ware, Jr., had been proposed as a candidate.

List of contributions to foundation of Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence & the Pastoral Care, March 21, 1829

Item — Volume: 3, item: 140Identifier: UAI 5.125
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With a receipt from Ebenezer Francis for notes and cash amounting to $11,040, equivalent to the salary of the Professor of Pulpit Eloquence & the Pastoral Care.