The History of Harvard University, Volume 2John Owen, 1840 - 612 pages |
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... Hancock Professor of He- brew and other Oriental Languages . Edward Wigglesworth elected and installed Hollis Professor of Divinity . — Public Exhibi- tions before the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers , established by the ...
... Hancock Professor of He- brew and other Oriental Languages . Edward Wigglesworth elected and installed Hollis Professor of Divinity . — Public Exhibi- tions before the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers , established by the ...
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... Hancock . Letter of the Corporation , intimating to Hancock the Expediency of his Resignation . He retains the Office . - Conse- quent Embarrassments . - Ebenezer Storer chosen Treasurer . Unsuccessful Attempts to obtain a Settlement of ...
... Hancock . Letter of the Corporation , intimating to Hancock the Expediency of his Resignation . He retains the Office . - Conse- quent Embarrassments . - Ebenezer Storer chosen Treasurer . Unsuccessful Attempts to obtain a Settlement of ...
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... Hancock , Ebenezer Storer . - Their Accounts . - Amount of Funds of the College , accumulated while Massachusetts was a Province . -- - - CHAPTER XXXI . - - - . 210 Funds of Harvard College . Effects of the Depreciation of Paper ...
... Hancock , Ebenezer Storer . - Their Accounts . - Amount of Funds of the College , accumulated while Massachusetts was a Province . -- - - CHAPTER XXXI . - - - . 210 Funds of Harvard College . Effects of the Depreciation of Paper ...
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... Hancock Professorship . Consequent Proceedings . Sidney Willard appointed his Successor . - John Farrar elected Hollis Pro- fessor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy . -The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory established ...
... Hancock Professorship . Consequent Proceedings . Sidney Willard appointed his Successor . - John Farrar elected Hollis Pro- fessor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy . -The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory established ...
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... Hancock , of Boston . 484 496 496 497 499 500 504 XVIII . Vote of the Corporation on the Donations of Thomas Hancock and John Hancock . 505 XIX . Diploma conferring the Degree of Doctor of Laws on George Washington . 506 XX . The ...
... Hancock , of Boston . 484 496 496 497 499 500 504 XVIII . Vote of the Corporation on the Donations of Thomas Hancock and John Hancock . 505 XIX . Diploma conferring the Degree of Doctor of Laws on George Washington . 506 XX . The ...
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amount annual annuities APPENDIX appointed August 31 benefactors Benjamin board of Overseers books and philosophical Boston Bowdoin Boylston Cambridge CHAPTER Charles church committee Corporation Court death Divinity donation duties Ebenezer Francis Edward elected Eliot England erected established Francis funds Governor grant Harvard College Harvard Hall Hebrew Henry Flynt Hollis Holyoke honor hundred pounds Immediate Government income institution instruction instructors interest James James Bowdoin John Hancock John Lowell Joseph Joseph Story learning lectures legacy lege legislature letter Library Massachusetts Medical ment Nathaniel Bowditch nature Nicholas Boylston passed philosophical apparatus poration pounds sterling present President and Fellows principles Profes Professor Professorship Province received request resignation respect salary Samuel Samuel Dexter seminary Society spirit sterling Storer Theological School Thomas Thomas Hancock Thomas Hollis thousand dollars tion Treasurer Tutors University vote William Winthrop XXXV XXXVII
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Page 509 - Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 507 - State ; and whereas the encouragement of arts and sciences and all good literature tends to the honor of God, the advantage of the Christian religion, and the great benefit of this and the other United States of America...
Page 509 - ... shall at the same time have a seat in the senate or house of representatives; but their being chosen or appointed to and accepting the same shall operate as a resignation of their seat in the senate or house of representatives and the place so vacated shall be filled up.
Page 656 - And are built upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth into an holy temple in the Lord.
Page 175 - Council, and Senate of this Commonwealth are and shall be deemed their successors ; who with the President of Harvard College for the time being, together with the ministers of the Congregational churches in the towns of Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester...
Page 676 - He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Page 634 - Rev. GEORGE R. NOYES, DD, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature.
Page 176 - College; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the legislature of this commonwealth from making such alterations in the government of the said university, as shall be conducive to its advantage, and the interest of the republic of letters, in as full a manner as might have been done by the legislature of the late Province of the Massachusetts Bay.
Page 48 - ; denouncing him as " an enthusiast, a censorious, uncharitable person, and a deluder of the people," and stating at large the reasons of their denunciation. The reproachful reflections Whitefield had cast upon the College they pronounced