Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Religious services at Harvard were originally held by each class in their tutor's room; afterwards all the students came together in Commons Hall or the Library; and later an apartment in the old Harvard Hall was used as a chapel. In 1744, Holden Chapel was erected. The building was entered by the door at the western end and the seats were ranged one above the other from the middle aisle to the side walls. Soon after 1766 a room on the lower story of the new Harvard Hall was taken for devotional exercises. In 1775 the academic buildings were...
...thirty five endowed professorships of today eight existed then. There were six tutors and an instructor. There are now one hundred and thirty-five instructors and one tutor. Under the wise administration of President Willard and Mr. Storer the College was beginning to depend on itself, but did not have its last subsidy voted it by the legislature until 1814. A few years previous to 1800 the personal estate of Harvard was $182,000. The University property is now valued above...