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Hebrew language , the English 4 anguage , Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres , History and Antiquities , Logic , Metaphysics , Moral and Political Philosophy , Theology , AJgebra , Geometry , Trigonometry and the higher branches of Mathematics , Natural Philosophy ,
Astronomy and Chemistry . —Exercises or recitations ia ail these branches are given by the instructors , and a punctual attendance on them required by law . Written themes upon subjects given out by the Professor of Rhetoric , public declamations , and forensic disputations are also regularly required .
Public lectures are given by the professors , either to the whole college , or to the upper classes onLy , according to the nature of their subjects . These are upon Rhetoric and Oratory , on Philology , on the Oriental languages ,
on Natural Philosophy and Astronomy , on Divinity , on Sacred Criticism , on Zoology , on Botany , on Chemistry and Mineralogy , on Aiiatomy and Surgery , on Medicine , and on Law .
The students have regular hours of study and of recreation . Gymnastic exercises are authorized , and a military corps is kept up in the two upper
classes , the members of which become perfect in the manual exercise . An attendance is also permitted on such teachers of polite accomplishments as are approved by the college government .
Exhibitions . Public exhibitions take place three times a-year , and consist of performances b y such members of the two upper classes as are selected for their merits , by the government . They are delivered in the college chapel , in presence of such citizens and strangers as may attend .
Commencement . This anniversary takes place on the last Wednesday in August . At this time the degrees are conferred , and public performances delivered by the Bachelors and Masters of Arts . Theae
exercises syne attended by the Supreme Executive and other officers < tf the Commonwealth , by citizens a » d atran gera of distinction , and by a numerpua and fashionable audience . A custom of ancient date had rendered this anniversary a day ; < rf parade , atad festivity both in Cambridge and Bostott .
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Number qf Students . The whole number of graduates at the College since its foundation is 4660 ^ The present members , exclusive of the
Medical Class in Boston , are as fol low ; — Seniors , 57 ; Juniors , 66 Sophomores , 91 ; Freshmen , $ 5 ; Re sident Graduates , 19 . Of these a cer
tain portion resort here from a considerable distance , ajad among them may be observed the names of many of the " most distinguished families in the southern states . Present Officers of the University .
Rev . John Thornton Kirkla ^ d , D . D ., LL . D ., President ; Aaron Dexter , M . D . ^ Professor of Chemistry ; William D . Peck , A . M ., Professor of Natural History ; Rev . Henry Ware , D . D ., Professor of Theolosrv ; Hon . Isaac
Parker , LL . D ., Professor of Law ; Levi Hedge , A . M ., Professor of Logic , Metaphysics and Ethics ; Rev * John SPopkin , D . D ., Professor of the Greek language ; Rev . Joseph McKean , LL . D ., Professor of Rhetoric and
Oratory ; James Jackson , M . D ., Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic ; John C . Warren , M . D ., Professor of Anatomy and Surgery ; Sidney Willard , A . M ., Professor of the Oriental Languages ; John Gorham , M . D ., Adjunct Professor of Chemistry ; Levi Frisbie , A . M ., Professor of the Latin
Language ; John Farrar , A . M ., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Pldlosophy ; Andrews Norton , A . M ., Lecturer on Sacred Criticism and
Librarian ; Jacob Bigelow , M . D ., Lecturer on Materia Medica and Botany ; Walter Channing , M . D ., Lecturer on Midwifery ; Rev . Edward Everett , A . M ., Professor of Greek Literature ;
Joseph G . Kendall , A , M ., Registrar and Tutor of Geometry and Natural Philosophy ; Allston Gibbs , A , M ., Tutor of Geometry and Natural Philosophy ; Jonathan M . Wainwright , A . M ., Instructor of Rhetoric and
Oratory ; John JJra&er , A . P ., Tutor of the Latin Language j Francis Jackson , A . M ., PjrocfcQr \ Samuel Gilman , A . M ., Proctor ; Henry Ware * A . M ., Assistant Librarian ; Charles Folsom , A . B ., Regent $ Thomas Savage , A . B ., Proctor ; James Wajker , A-B * * Prpctor ; Nicholas Faucon , French Instructor . Of the College Buildings . The College edifices , eight in nunfe
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Account of Harvard University , in Cambridge , Massachusetts . 503
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/3/
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