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The professors have charge of the Laboratory and Mifcef&l < 2 £ pbal Cabinet and give lectures in Cambridge and Boston . Roy all Professorship of Law , by Hon . Isaac Royall , of Medford , in
1773 , The professor gives lectures in Cambridge to the senior class and graduates . Cbllege Prdf&ssorship of Metaph ysics and Ethics , partly on an annuity from West Boston bridge by act of the Commonwealth in 1810 . The professor gives exercises' and superintends the forensic disputations .
College Professorship of the Greek Language , by College law 1811 . Exercises by the professor . College Professorship of the Latin Language , by College law 1811 . Exercises by the professor .
A Professorship of Greek Literature , by a donation from an unknown individual in Boston , in 1815 . The present professor is on his travels in Europe and Modern Greece . Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages , by Abiel
Smith , Esq ., of Boston , by will , in 1815 . Professor not yet appointed . Lectureship of Mater ia Medica and Botany , established 1815 . Lectures given in Boston to the Medical Class . Lectureship of Midwifery , established 1815 . Lectures given in Boston to the Medical Class .
The Professor of Law and the Medical Professors and Lecturers reside in Boston , The rest of the officers at Cambridge . For tjie remaining departments of instruction and government , see the list of officers . v There are various other funds
devoted to specific purposes , some of which are suffered to accumulate until sufficient for the proposed object ; the interest of others is annually appropriated agreeably to the intentions of the donors . These are ,
Deatter Fund . The la ^ e Hon . Samuel Dexter bequeathed 5000 dollars , to promote the critical knowledge of the Scriptures . Alford Fund . By the executors of the will of the late Hon . John Alford , Qf Charlestown , to establish a professorship of Moral Philosophy w&ea sufficient . A Township qf Lpnd . By Samuel
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1 - . ., ' . ¦ ¦ Parkmftn , Esq ., of Bo ^ on , towards endowing a professorship < ir Christian Theology , to have special charge of the resident graduates . Bowdoin Premiums . Not less than 100 dollars per annum , by the late Governor Bowdoin , given in four premiums , or more , to members of the
college * authors of the best dissertations on subjects annually proposed by the corporation . Boytston Premiums . Of these an account is given under the Medical department .
Endowments for the support and assistance of students . The Hopkins Fund , by Edward Jfopkins , Esq ., of Great Britain , together with legacies of Mr . Pennoyer and Mrs . Saltonstall ,
f ive about 1000 dollars per annum , to e divided among ten resident graduates , students in divinity . Mr . Hopkins * legacy also provides 70 dollars per annum to be distributed in books to meritorious students *
Exhibitions , or gifts provided for by Lieut .-Gov . Stoughton , Rev . W . Brattle and others , amount annually to about 750 dollars . Of the late liberal donation of the State of 10 , 000 dollars
per annum for ten years , one quarter is devoted for assisting the education of meritorious students , a part being annually distributed ; the rest funded . Thirty students save the expense of board by services rendered in the hall . Requisites for Admission and Coterse
of Studies . Candidates for admission into the University are now required to be well versed in the whole of Arithmetic , in Ancient and Modern Geography , in the grammar and prosody . of the Latin
and Greek languages , to be able to translate English into Latin , and to construe and parse any portion of the following books , viz . DalzePs Collectanea , Graeca Minora , the Greek
Testament , Virgil , Sallust , and Cicero ' s Select Orations : also to produce a certificate of their correct moral character , and to give bonds in the sum ot four hundred dollars for the payment
of their quarter bills . The time of residence at the University , except for thos ^ who enter at an advanced standing ^ is four yeaacs i during which tipae they study the GreeK and Latin Classics , the French or the
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502 Account of Harvard University , in Cambridge , Massachusetts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/2/
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