Volume 3
Contains 197 Results:
Letter from Charles Follen to Henry Ware, Sr., December 12, 1828
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
Report on Boylston's will, December 8, 1828
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
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
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
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
Memo of Deeds of Harvard College as recorded in Middlesex, January 1829
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
H. Ware's report last term, January 1, 1829
Letter from Joseph Story, Boston, to Nathaniel Bowditch, January 1, 1829?
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
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
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
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
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
Regarding his duties and salary as acting president of Harvard.
Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, January 24, 1829
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
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
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
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
Treasurer's monthly statement for February, March 1, 1829
Letter from George C. Shattuck, Boston, to Francis C. Gray, March 3, 1829
Accepts appointment to the Boylston Medical Committee.
Letter from John G. Palfrey to Francis C. Gray, March 20, 1829
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
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.