Harvard University History - Four Volumes

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#1
- The History of
Harvard
University
Volumes 1 & 2
By Josiah Quincy
1840
637 + 725 pages, illustrated & indexed
#2
– History of
Harvard
Law
School
Volumes 1 & 2
By C. C. Langdell
1918
633 + 538 pages, illustrated & indexed
Bonus
–
Harvard
Memorial Biographies
Volumes 1 & 2
By Sever and Frances, 1866
498 + 520 pages, illustrated & indexed
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Founded in 1636 by the colonial
Massachusetts
legislature,
Harvard
University
is the oldest institution of higher
learning in the
United States
. It is also the first and oldest corporation in
North America
(incorporated as The
President and Fellows of Harvard College).
Initially called "
New
College
" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was named
Harvard
College
on March 13, 1639,
after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779
(which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new
Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into
the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance
examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.
Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the
second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation),
standing at .8 billion as of 2008.
Seven presidents of the
United States
– John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush – were graduates of Harvard.
Its faculty have
produced more than 40 Nobel laureates.
It was Harvard’s 200
th
anniversary that prompted the writing of this, by the sitting president.
VOLUME FIRST (
Quincy
).
CHAPTER I.
Centennial Celebration in 1836. — Origin and Design of this History
17. — Vote of the General Court of
Massachusetts Bay
, in 1636.
— Bequest of John Harvard. State of the finances of the College. 1
CHAPTER II.
Presidency of Charles Chauncy. — Previous Events of his Life. 24
CHAPTER III.
Influence of the Clergy on the College. — Its catholic Spirit —
CHAPTER IV.
College Charter of 1692. — Its History and Results. 68
CHAPTER V.
College Charter of 1696. — President Mather discontented with it 84
CHAPTER VI.
Temporary Settlement of the College 103
CONTENTS. VII
CHAPTER VII.
Sectarian Controversies. — Attempts to remove John Leverett 127
CHAPTER VIII.
The Rev. Samuel Willard accepts the Vice-Presidency 145
CHAPTER IX.
Retrospective View of the Benefactors of the College, during the
Seventeenth Century. — John Winthrop. — Sir Richard 162
CHAPTER X.
Retrospect of political and religious Parties. 195
CHAPTER XI
Indications of a Design to embarrass the Corporation. 213
CHAPTER XII.
Benefactions of Thomas Hollis. — Their Origin, Motive, and Extent
230
CHAPTER XIII
Tutors Sever and Welstoed claim Seats at the Board of Corporation
265
CHAPTER XIV.
Proceedings of the Overseers on Sever and Welsteed's MemoriaL
289
CHAPTER XV.
Increasing Influence of the Episcopal Church. 314
CHAPTER XVI
Difficulties attending the Selection of a President — Cotton Mather,
338
CHAPTER XVII
Change in the political Relations of Massachusetts 348
CHAPTER XVIII
Wadsworth
inaugurated. — General Court establish a Salary 377
CHAPTER XIX.
Benefaction of the College. — John Hull. 405
APPENDIX.
Early Records of the College. — Harvard’s Legacy
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