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Account of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [From the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, April, 1816.]
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UAJttviVJXi ^ university most anoient and the best endowed of ay scientific institution in the United tates . It has flourished without injrruption for nearl y two centuries , which time it has
during gradually gathered strength from the patronage of government , the munificence of individuals , and the uniform respectability of its character and administration . It has been enabled to hold out
extensive means of affording instruction , and to exkct higher qualifications from its students , than any other American seminary . The number of its students , which within a few years has been augmented about one-third 3 the requisites for admission and the course
of studies , which have been greatly elevated during the same period ; the late repeated endowments from public and private liberality ; the increased number of offices and departments of instruction ; the erection within a short
time of four extensive and commodious additional edifices ; the important acquisitions of books , apparatus , and specimens relating to the physical sciences ; are circumstances sufficient to shew the prosperity and flourishing state of this institution .
Harvard University derives its name from the Rev . John Harvard , its earliest benefactor , who in 1638 bequeathed half his estate , amounting to nearly ^ 800 sterling , for the
endowment of the College . The names of the subsequent benefactors of the institution are attached to the professorships , buildings , or other fruits which have resulted from their munificence .
Professorships , Foundations , SfC Most of the professorships are established on foundations given for the express purpose by individuals , or appropriated from the funds of the University . Prom the income of these foundations the professors principally derive their salaries , The other departments of instruction are supported
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by periodical assessments on the members of the college . The Hollis Professorship of Divinity , was founded by Thomas Hollis , Esq ., of London , by donation , in 1722 . The professor gives lectures , and attends exercises of the students .
Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ' , by the same gentleman in 1726 . The professor has charge of the philosophical and astronomical apparatus , and gives lectures and exercises . *
Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and the Oriental Languages , established by the Hon . Thomas Hancock , of Boston , by will , in 1764 . Lectures and exercises by the professor . Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory , founded by Nicholas
Boylston , Esq ., of Boston , by will , in 1772 . The professor inspects the compositions of the students and attends their public declamations . Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History , established by subscribers to a fund in Boston and
elsewhere in 1805 . The professor resides at the Botanic garden , and gives lectures to the students . Hersey Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery , founded by Dr . Ezekiel Hersey , of " Hingham , and others , in 1783 . The professor has charge of the Anatomical Museum and gives lectures in Cambridge to the students , and in Boston to the Medical class .
Hersey Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Physic , by Dr . Hersey and others , in 1783 . Lectures given in Cambridge to the students , and in Boston to the Medical Class . Erving Professorship of Chemistry and Mineralogy , by William ^ Erving ,, Esq ., of Boston , and others , in 1783 .
* In exercises 0 / private lectures a professor Examines the class in a classic or text book , giving such illustrations as he sees fit .
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Account Of Harvard University, In Cambridge, Massachusetts. [From The New England Journal Of Medicine And Surgery, April, 1816.]
Account of Harvard University , in Cambridge , Massachusetts . [ From the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery , April , 1816 . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/1/
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