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Remarks Upon the Views of the Livings of College Officers 1782

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

William M. Fowler*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Northeastern University

Extract

The Committee of the Corporation and Overseers will observe in the view that the Professor of Mathematics had for many years a larger salary than the Professor of Divinity…. Perhaps the discrimination continued too long.

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Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by New York University 

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Notes

1. Shipton, Clifford K., Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College In the Classes 1764–1767 (Boston 1972), p 256.Google Scholar

3. Petition From Williams, Samuel March 4, 1782 Corporation Records III, 139. Harvard University Archives.Google Scholar

4. Remarks Upon the Views of the Livings of College Officers 1782. Corporation Papers UA I 5.120, Harvard University Archives.Google Scholar

5. The Hollis Professorship of Divinity was established by Hollis, Thomas in 1721. In 1782 Edward Wigglesworth held the post. Quincy, Josiah, The History of Harvard University (Cambridge, 1840), pp I, 239, II, 259.Google Scholar

6. The Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages was established in 1765 with a bequest from Hancock, Thomas, the uncle of John. In 1782 Stephen Sewall held the post. Ibid., pp. II, 130, 264.Google Scholar

7. Meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College April 2, 1782. Corporation Records III, pp. 141142. Harvard University Archives.Google Scholar