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...General Court of the newly settled colony voted money to establish the college, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministry shall lie in the dust." Instruction in theology was given in the college from the time of its first opening, and the first professorship instituted was the Hollis professorship of divinity, established in 1721. The differentiation of the divinity school from the College was very gradual and for many years previous to 1816 students for the ministry were registered as "resident graduates," spending a single year in the advanced study of Hebrew, reading...
...Treasurer announced the receipt of $10,696.66 from the estate of Miss Rebecca W. Brown, to be added to the fund created by her brother, Dr. Buckminster Brown, for the foundation of a Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery. A gift of $2,200 was also reported by the Treasurer, given by the following graduates for improving the soil and for planting shrubs and vines in the Yard: F. L. Ames '54, O. Ames '86, W. C. Baylies '84, H. B. Cabot '83, W. Endicott '87, C. S. Fairchild '63, A. Hemenway '75, H. S. Hunnewell '75, W. Hunnewell...
...voted to establish the John E. Hudson Professorship of Archaeology and George Henry Chase '96, at present Curator of Classical Antiquities anad Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, was appointed John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology...
...Spiritual History of Divinity Hall," by the Reverend F. G. Peabody '69, "The Hill Professorship of Transportation" by the eminent authority, Howard Elliott '81, and "The Final Extension of the Franchise to Vote for Overseers" by G. B. Shattuck '63 completes the list of special features. The number merits a careful perusal from cover to cover, as its material is not only interesting but instructive...
Certainly that is true, especially among the first class mentioned. He would be very rash who would suppose that a man could attain to a professorship in a university of repute without having shown some capacity for original thought. But with the student this does not necessarily hold. There are innumerable instances to prove that a man may pass admission examinations to college without having ever experienced the sensation of having a thought of his own; he can buy the thoughts he needs at so much per hour. And there are only fewer instances to prove that he can also...