Joseph Head, Jr.,
John Heard, Ipswich,
Jeremiah Hill, Biddeford, Maine,
William Hilliard, Cambridge,
Jonathan Hunnewell,
Mrs. Rebecca Lowell,
Mrs. Sarah C. Lowell,
William P. Mason,
William Minot,
James Morrill,
Rev. James Morss, Newburyport,
" Asa Packard, Marlborough,
Thomas Parsons,
George Partridge, Duxbury,
Charles P. Phelps,
John Pierson, Biddeford,
Samuel Pierson, do.
Rev. John S. Popkin, Cambridge,
*' John Prince, Salem,
Joseph G. Raleigh, North Carolina,
Edward Rand, Newburyport,
Benjamin Rice, Marlborough,
Rev. Ezra Ripley, Concord,
Jerome Ripley, Greenfield,
Rev. Samuel Ripley, Waltham,
Benjamin Russell,
Daniel Sargent,
Henry Sargent,
Rev. S. Sewall, Burlington, Mass.,
Lemuel Shaw,
John Simpkins,
Phineas Spelman,
William Sullivan,
George Thacher, Biddeford, Me.,
George Thacher, Jr., do.
Henry S. Thacher, do.
Sam'l P. S. Thatcher, Buxton, Me.,
Thomas Thaxter,
Nathaniel F. Thayer,
Nehemiah Thomas, Duxbury,
Elisha Ticknor,
Ebenezer Torrey,
Rev. Henry Ware, Cambridge,
" Henry Ware, Jr.,
Nathan Webb,
William Wells,
John White, Concord,
Rev. Samuel Willard, Deerfield,
Ebenezer H. Williams, do.
Edmund Winchester,
Caleb Witherbee, Marlborough.
Rev. Noah Worcester, Brighton.
APPENDIX,
No. XXXV.
Founders
and Bene-
factors of
the Theo-
logical
School.
DONORS TO THE FUND.
Rev. John Allyn, Duxbury,
Thomas Astley, Philadelphia,
Thomas Beckford,
John W. Bradley,
John Bright, Waltham,
Josiah Calef, Saco, Maine,
James S. Dwight, Springfield,
Joshua Frost, do.
Isaac Hall,
William Hilliard, Cambridge,
Michael Hodge, Newburyport,
Mrs. Hepsy C. Howard,
Thomas Jainson,
Nicholas Johnson, Newburyport,
Nicholas Johnson, Jr., do.
Gushing Otis. Scituate,
George Partridge, Duxbury,
William P. Preble, Saco, Maine,
550
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
APPENDIX,
No. XXXV.
Founders
and Bene-
factors of
the Theo-
logical
School.
Edward Rand, Newburyport,
Thomas Redman,
John Skinner, Charlestown,
Asa Stebbins, Deerfield,
Seth Storer, Jr., Saco, Maine,
Charles Thacher,
Ebenezer Torrey.
The amount subscribed by each of the above-named individuals,
and also the names of other subscribers to the fund raised in the
year 1815, cannot be obtained ; some of the Society's books and
papers, then in the possession of the Vice-Treasurer, having been
destroyed at the fire in Court Street, Boston, in 1835.
On the new formation of the Society for the Promotion of Theo-
logical Education in Harvard University, in 1826, a new subscrip-
tion was raised, " for the purchase of land, and the erection of a
building for the use of the students in the Theological School,
at Cambridge." The names of the subscribers are as follows.
Abel Adams 50
Benjamin Adams 50
Joseph H. Adams 10
Samuel Adams 5
Alpheus Allen 15
Mrs. Hannah Allen 10
William Almy 5
Jonathan Amory 100
John H. Andrew, Salem, 50
Ebenezer T. Andrews 100
J. B. Andrews t 5
Nathan Appleton 300
T. G. Atkins 10
Daniel C. Bacon 20
Joseph Baker 10
Charles Barnard 50
Robert M. Barnard 20
Gideon Barslow, Salem, 50
Jacob Barslow 5
Timothy Bedlington 10
John Belknap 5
Ann Bent 20
Mrs. E. Billings 5
Mrs. Sarah Blake 100
C. Blanchard 5
Hezekiah Blanchard 20
Joshua P. Blanchard 10
George Bond 200
George Bond, from sundry per-
sons, 58
Nathaniel Bowditch 20
A Br. 20
Mrs. Oliver Brewster 20
Peter C. Brooks 1000
D. A. Brown 5
Henry Burditt 5
J. W. Burditt 10
Benjamin Callender 5
Richard B. Callender 10
Luke Carter 25
William E. Channing 500
Joseph Chapman 10
Joshua Clapp 30
Samuel Cobb 100
Miss Cochran 100
Mrs. William Cochran 100
Joseph Coolidge 500
M. & W. Cotton 20
Rowland Cowing 5
Benj. W. Crowninshield, Salem, 300
Edward Cruft 5
Thomas P. Cushing 50
Isaac P. Davis 10
John Davis 10
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
551
John W. Davis $5
Mrs. Henry Dearborn 100
Humphrey Devereux, Salem, 100
Mrs. Samuel Dexter 100
Pickering Dodge, Salem, 200
John Doggett 10
John Dorr 50
Samuel Dorr 100
Samuel Dow, Jr. 10
Warren Dutton 25
William Eager 10
Samuel A. Eaton 10
Mrs. Catharine Eliot, at different
times, 550
Samuel A. Eliot 75
Joshua Fisher, M. D., Beverly, 100
Horatio H. Fiske 50
Jeremiah Fitch 100
James Foster 10
William B. Fowle 5
A Friend (E. P.) 500
A Friend, by Abel Adams, 10
Abraham W. Fuller 20
Henry H. Fuller 10
Stephen P. Fuller 5
Ezra S. Gannett 50
Henry Gassett 100
Moses Grant 20
John C. Gray 50
Nathan Hale 50
Henry Hall 10
J. Hamilton 5
Mrs. M. Hammatt 20
Daniel Hammond 100
Samuel Hammond 100
Prince Hawes 20
Hercules M. Hayes 500
Mrs. D. Henshaw 10
Samuel Henshaw 25
Samuel Hoar, Concord, 105
Darius B. Holbrook 10
Mrs. S. Holland 10
George Homer 10
Henry Hovey 10
Hall J. How 25
George Howe 10
George Hunt 10
B. Huntington $ 10
Joseph Hussey 5
J. H. Jr. 10, J. S. 10, 20
Elizabeth and Susan Inches 50
Anna Jackson 10
Charles Jackson 200
Miss E. J. Jackson 5
Hannah Jackson 5
James Jackson 500
Patrick T. Jackson 300
John Coffin Jones 200
Gedney King 30
Misses Kinsley and Pierce 5
Thomas Lamb 5
David Lane 5
Josiah Lane 20
Amos Lawrence, 200
William Lawrence 100
Francis Lee 50
Joseph Lee 100
Mrs. Melvin Lord 3
Benjamin Loring 25
J. M. subscribed 1000
R. C. Mackay 5
Peter Mackintosh 10
Levi H. Marsh 5
Thomas Melville 50
E. W. Metcalf, Cambridge, 50
James K. Mills 20
Elijah Morse 5
Israel Munson 100
George Murdock 10
Cheever Newhall 10
Andrews Norton, Cambridge, 500
Harrison Gray Otis 500
Mr. Palfrey, for A. B., 20
John Park 10
Daniel P. Parker 100
Rev. Francis Parkman 200
Mrs. Sarah Parkman 100
William Parsons 200
Enoch Patterson 50
Mary & Sarah Payne 20
William Payne 20
Augustus Peabody 10
Joseph Peabody, Salem, 500
Mrs. John Phillips 20
APPENDIX,
No. XXXV.
Founders
and Bene-
factors of
the Theo-
logical
School.
552
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
APPENDIX,
John Pickens
$10
John Stearns
$20
No. XXXV.
Benjamin Pickman, Salem,
300
Simon Stearns
10
Founders
Mrs. B. T. Pickman
20
Jonas E. Stone
10
and Bene-
factors of
Dudley L. Pickman, Salem,
150
Lewis Tappan
1000
the Theo-
William Pickman, Salem,
50
Thomas Tarbell
10
logical
School.
Benjamin Poor
10
George Ticknor
200
George Pratt
10
Peter O. Thacher
50
John Pratt
15
Israel Thorndike
500
William Prescott
200
Israel Thorndike, Jr.
100
John F. Priest
10
Samuel Torrey
40
Charles A. Prince
5
Frierrd of Truth
100
Henry Purkitt
5
Richard D. Tucker
50
John C. Putnam
25
Benjamin C. Ward
20
Josiah Quincy
50
Henry Ware, Jr.
100
David Reed
5
Daniel Webster
50
Reuben Reed
5
Gill Wheelock
10
Henry Rice
100
B. F. White
5
Nathan Rice
10
Daniel A. White, Salem
, 100
Mark Richards
20
Joseph White, "
250
Nathaniel Richards, Jr.
20
Stephen White, "
50
Reuben Richards
50
A. Whilney
15
James B. Richardson
30
Jonathan Whitney
10
Jeffrey Richardson
5
Samuel Whitwell
200
E. H. Robbins, Jr.
100
Thomas Wigglesworth
1000
J. M. Robbins
10
Henry Williams
20
Daniel D. Rogers
400
J. W. Williams
20
John Rogers
50
Timothy Williams
50
Robert Rogerson
100
Benjamin Willis
20
Ebenezer Rollins
50
Parley Utley
5
Samuel Salisbury
5
Alexander Young
5
George A. Sampson
5
An aged gentleman, on his
Charles Seaver
25
death-bed, by J. W.,
40
George Seaver
Lemuel Shaw
25
50
Collections at Annual Meeting,
1827,
34-1*
Henry Sigourney
100
1828,
157-11
Jacob T. Slade
50
Jared Sparks
20
Total,
$ 19,327-23
Francis Stanton
50
The cost of Divinity Hall,
was 4
31,477-67
" " " the Matron's house,
2,848-90
" " " the furniture of
the Divinity Hall and Ma-
Iron's house,
2,562-08
36,988-65
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 553
Of which amount, there was paid by the Treasurer of APPENDIX,
Harvard College, out of the Theological trust fund, 19,600-00 No - xxxv -
And by the Directors of the Society for promoting The-
ological Education in Harvard University, from funds
subscribed for the purpose, as above stated, . . 17,383-65
$36,988-65
No. XXXVI. See p. 316.
LETTER FROM SAMUEL A. ELIOT, PRESENTING A COLLEC-
TION OF BOOKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY, &c.
"June 2d, 1822.
"Dear Sir,
" I have just received information from my friend, Mr. Storrow, Letter from
of Paris, that he has completed for me a purchase, which I begged j^" 6
him, a short time since, to make.
" It is the collection of books on American History, Geography,
&c., which belonged to Mr. Warden, late American Consul, which
were on sale, and seemed to me sufficiently valuable to make it an
object, that they should be preserved in the country to which they
relate. For the same reason that it is desirable they should be in
America, it seeme.d to me important that they should be placed in a
public institution, accessible to all who might desire to consult
them ; and my object in troubling you at present is to request you
to have the goodness to beg the Corporation of the University to
accept this collection, and give it a place in their library, where I
feel perfectly confident it will be as useful to the public as its in-
trinsic value can render it.
" There are, probably, among them some works of which there
are already copies in the library ; and I hope, that any unnecessary
duplicates may be disposed of to the best advantage, as the benefit
of the library is of much more consequence than the preservation of
the completeness of this collection.
" The books are to be shipped on board the Oak, which will sail
from Havre to Boston on the 10th of June, and will, I hope, arrive
in safety.
"I beg leave to add the assurance of my respect to the members
VOL. ii. 70
554
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
APPENDIX, of the Corporation, and to yourself particularly, with my best wishes
NO. xxxvi. an( j p ra y ers f or tne prosperity and usefulness of my Alma Mater.
" I am, dear Sir,
" Affectionately yours,
"SAMUEL A. ELIOT.
"Rev. President Kirkland."
Ceremony
at the lay-
ing of the
corner-
stone of
University
Hall.
No. XXX VII. See p. 331.
CEREMONY AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF
UNIVERSITY HALL.
On the first day of July, A. D. 1813, the corner-stone of Univer-
sity Hall was laid. A procession was formed on the occasion, con-
sisting of the Corporation, the Immediate Government, and the
Students of the College ; and moved from the front of Harvard Hall
to the new building. An address by the Rev. President explained
the reasons for erecting the building, the necessity of a more com-
modious chapel for the religious exercises and other occasions of
the society, of more convenient rooms for the public tables, and of
providing for the greater security and better arrangement of the
Library and Philosophical Apparatus. A silver plate was then
deposited under the corner-stone with the following inscription
engraven upon it.
" FUND. HUJ. JED. Xx6. ET EcCL. DIC. IMPENS.
ACAD. EREC. DIE PRIM. JuL. A. D. MDCCCXIII.
FEL,. POS. AUSP. Exc. CAL. STRONG. ARM.
LL. D. REIP. NOST. MAS. GUB. IDEOQUE INSPEC.
PRINCIP. ATQUE REV. JOHAN. T. KIRKLAND
S. T. D. LL. D. UNIV. NOST.
" Fundamenta hujus ^Edificii, Christo et Ecclesiae dicati, impensis
Academicis erecti, die Julii primo, Anno Domini 1813,
feliciter posita auspiciis Excellentissimi Caleb Strong, Armigeri,
LL. D., Reipublicae Massachusettensis Gubernatoris, ideoque Inspectorum
Principis, atque Reverendi Johannis Thornton Kirkland,
S. T. D., LL. D., Universitatis nostrae Prassidis."
Prayers were then offered up by the President.
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 555
APPENDIX,
No.
XXXVIII.'
No. XXXVIII. See p. 334.
PROFESSORSHIPS IN THE COLLEGE, BETWEEN 1810 AND 1826.
The Professorships, in 1810, were as follows : Professor-
ships, be~
John Warren, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. ^A^IRVK
John Collins Warren, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Surgery.
Benjamin Waterhouse, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice
of Physic.
Aaron Dexter, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica.
John Gorham, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica.
Henry Ware, Hollis Professor of Divinity.
Sidney Willard, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental
Languages.
William Dandridge Peck, Professor of Natural History.
John Farrar, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Joseph McKean, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.
Between 1810 and 1826, the Professors and Lecturers appointed,
and the Professorships established, were as follows:
1810. Levi Hedge, College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics.
1811. Levi Frisbie, College Professor of Latin.
Ashur Ware, College Professor of Greek.
1811. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, Lecturer on Biblical Criticism.
1812. William Ellery Channing, vice Mr. Buckminster.
James Jackson, Professor of Clinical Medicine.
James Jackson, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, vice
Dr. Waterhouse.
1813. Andrews Norton, Lecturer on Biblical Criticism, vice Mr. Channing.
1815. Jacob Bigelow, Professor of Materia Medica.
John Snelling Popkin, University Professor of Greek, vice Ashur
Ware.
Edward Everett, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature.
Walter Channing, Professor of Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence.
John Collins Warren, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery,
vice John Warren.
1816. Jacob Bigelow, Rumford Professor of the Application of Science to
the Arts.
Isaac Parker, Royall Professor of Law.
George Ticknor, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Lan-
guages and Literature, and Professor of Belles Lettres.
John Gorham, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica,
vice Dr. Dexter.
556
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
APPENDIX,
Xo.
XXXVIII.
Professor-
ships, be-
tween 1810
and 1826.
1817. John Brazer, College Professor of Latin, vice Levi Frisbie.
Asahel Stearns, University Professor of Law.
Levi Frisbie, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philoso-
phy, and Political Economy.
1819. Edward Tyrrell Channing, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Ora
tory, vice Joseph McKean.
Andrews Norton, Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature.
1821. Joseph Green Cogswell, College Professor of Minsralogy and Chem-
istry.
1822. Thomas Nuttall, Curator of the Botanic Garden, and Lecturer on
Botany, vice Mr. Peck.
1826. George Otis, College Professor of Latin, vice Mr. Brazer.
James Hay ward, College Professor of Mathematics.
John White Webster, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Materia
Medica, vice Dr. Gorham.
Documents
relative to
claims of
Instructors
No. XXXIX. See p. 342.
DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO CLAIMS OF THE RESIDENT IN-
STRUCTORS TO FORM A PART OF THE CORPORATION.
Those who are desirous to understand the nature of this contro-
versy, and the several points on which the arguments on each side
turned, will find them illustrated in the following publications.
1. The Memorial of " the Subscribers, Resident Instructors in
Harvard College, to the Reverend and Honorable the Corporation
of Harvard University," dated "Cambridge, March, 1824."
2. " Remarks on a Pamphlet printed by the Professors and Tu-
tors of Harvard University, touching their Right to the exclusive
Government of that Seminary. By an Alumnus of that College.
Boston : Wells &, Lilly, Court Street. 1824."
3. " A Letter to John Lowell, Esq., in Reply to a Publication en-
titled ' Remarks on a Pamphlet printed by the Professors and Tutors
of Harvard University, touching their Right to the exclusive Gov-
ernment of that Seminary.' " Signed " Edward Everett," and dated
" Cambridge, Sept. 25, 1824." " Boston : Oliver Everett, 13 Corn-
hill. 1824."
4. " Further Remarks on the Memorial of the Officers of Har-
vard College. By an Alumnus of that College. Boston : printed
by Wells & Lilly, Court Street. 1824."
5. " Memorial of the Professors and Tutors in the University to
the Reverend and Honorable the Overseers of Harvard University,
at Cambridge," dated " May 31, 1824."
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 557
6. " Report of a Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College APPENDIX
on the Memorial of the Resident Instructors. January 6, 1825." NO.XXXIX.
7. "Outlines prepared for an Argument to be delivered before Documents
the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, upon the Discussion of ciahns^f
the Memorial of. the Professors and Tutors of the College, claiming Resident
Instructors.
a Right, that none but Resident Instructors in the College should
be chosen or deemed 'Fellows' of the Corporation, the Substance
of which was spoken before the Board, at their Meeting, in January,
1825. By Joseph Story, one of the Members of the Board." See
" The Jurist," Vol. I. No. 2, for April, 1829. Story's " Miscellane-
ous Writings," p. 368.
8. " Speech delivered before the Overseers of Harvard College,
February 3d, 1825, in behalf of the Resident Instructors of the
College, with an Introduction. By Andrews Norton. Boston : pub-
lished by Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. 1825."
9. " Remarks on Changes lately proposed or adopted in Harvard
University. By George Ticknor, Smith Professor, &c. Published
by Cummings, Hilliard, & Co. 1825."
No. XL. See p. 356.
EXPENDITURES AND STOCK ACCOUNT, BETWEEN JUNE, 1810,"
AND FEBRUARY, 1827.
Expenditures between June, 1810, and February, 1827, for ob- Expendi-
tures a
stock a
count.
jects of a fixed and permanent character. stock ac-
Cost of Holworthy Hall, .... $24,560-39
" University Hall, 65,009-40
" Massachusetts Hall, thoroughly repaired ;
it having been previously so dilapidated
as to be only in part tenantable, . 7,623'75
" 'Medical College, 21,401-63
" Additions to the President's House, . 3,087-24
" Ice-house, for the use of College kitchen, . 676-54
" Bathing-house, 289-13
122,648-08
Two houses built in Boston, on the estate
in Cornhill, bequeathed by Mr. Webb, 12,514-40
135,162-48
558
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
APPENDIX,
No. XL.
In addition to the above, the subjoined sums were
expended for the following objects :
Library, 10,568-22
Philosophical Apparatus, . . 2,927-69
Chemical Department, . . . 4,032-20
Medical Department, . . . 5,512-18
Furniture for the new College, . . 4,486-52
Repairs, during the period, exclusive of
those in Massachusetts Hall and the
President's House, . . . 47,839-12
75,365-93
Expendi-
tures and
Stock Ac-
count.
8210,528-41
Annual Variation of the Stock Account of the College, during
the same period.
1810, 1 July, . 149,110-46 1819, 1 July, . . 39,559-22
1811, " . 151,69923 1820, " . 59,87983
1812, " . . 159,09760 1821, " . . 67,828-45
1813, " . 152,440-04 1822, " . 72,162-90
1814, " . . 157,277-78 1823, " . . 82,43675
1815, " . 94,930-60 1824, " . 92,95900
1816, " . . 73,097-08 1825, " . . 96,456-62
1817, " . 46,066-10 1827, February, 88,475-67
1818, " . . 43,84181
Pecuniary
affairs of
the Col-
lege, in
January,
1828.
No. XLI. See p. 366.
STATEMENT OF THE PECUNIARY AFFAIRS OF THE COLLEGE,
IN JANUARY, 1828.
"At a meeting of the Corporation, in Boston, January 17th, 1828.
"Voted, That the Secretary lay the following statement of the
pecuniary affairs of the College before the Overseers, at their next
meeting.
"Harvard College, January 17th, 1828.
" To the Honorable and Reverend Board of Overseers.
"The income of the College having been much lessened during
a few years past, by the discontinuance of the annual grant of ten
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 559
thousand dollars from the State, and by other causes, several impor- APPENDIX,
tant changes in the management of its pecuniary concerns have No ' XLT '
been adopted by the Corporation. Some of these have already re- Pecuniary
ceived separately the sanction of the Board of Overseers. But the the Col-
Corporation ask leave now to submit a statement of the most impor- j^iiory
tant, in order that their connexion and operation, as parts of a sys- 1828>
tern, may be seen at one view.
"Besides the plain obligation of bringing the expenses of the
College within its income, which has lately been much exceeded,
the Corporation found a motive for retrenchment in the conviction,
that it is of great importance to reduce the necessary expenses of the
students. In conformity with the advice of the Overseers, as Pro-
fessorships became vacant, they have been united with others, or
their duties assigned to other departments; and, in every such case,
the amount paid to one Professor has been saved. ' The University
Professor of Metaphysics has been chosen Alford Professor, and is
to perform all his former duties, excepting such as were deemed
inconsistent with the statutes of the founder, which latter have been
assigned to the Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.
" The University Professor of Greek has, in like manner, been
chosen Eliot Professor of Greek. The instruction in Latin, formerly
given by the University Professor of that language, is now given by
the Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages ; and the
duties of the University Professor of Mathematics are required to be
performed by the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy, and the Tutors in that department. And thus all the
four University Professorships, those of which the salaries were paid
wholly out of the general funds of the College, are abolished.
" The abovementioned officers have consented to perform the
new duties thus assigned to them, although the Corporation do not
allow them any additional compensation. In this respect, they have
varied from the former usage of the College Government, which was
to grant additional pay whenever new services were asked of any
officer of the College. But they are of opinion, that the salaries
allowed to the Professors ought to be considered an adequate com-
pensation for the devotion of their whole time and talents to the
service of the institution. The stated salaries of two of the College
officers, the Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, and the
Smith Professor of Modern Languages, have been reduced by
consent.
"In the year 1813, a grant was made of three hundred dollars per
560
HISTORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
APPENDIX,
No. XLT.
Pecuniary
affairs of
the Col-
lege, in
January.
1828.
annum to the President, and of two hundred dollars per annum to
each Professor, in addition to their salaries, to continue during the
pleasure of the Corporation. This grant has been repealed.
"The Treasurer of the College has declined receiving any com-
pensation beyond the actual expenses which he shall incur in dis-
charging the duties of his office.
"On the resignation of the late Erving Professor of Chemistry,
his former duties were connected with those of the Mineralogical
Department. The vacancies which have lately occurred in the
Rumford Professorship, and in the Royall Professorship of Law,
have not been filled, but their funds are specially appropriated by
the donors, and cannot be applied to the general expenses of the
College.
"A vote has been recently submitted to the Overseers for dis-
continuing the office of Secretary to the President.
"A charge of ten dollars for Steward and Commons, has long
been made on all the students. Half the amount is requisite to pay
the Steward's salary. The other half is deemed only a just equiva-
lent for the free use of the kitchens and utensils, and of the dining-
rooms and furniture, all which are owned by the College, and the
repair of which is an annual charge. As this provision is made for
the equal benefit of all the scholars, it is proper that the expense
should be borne by all, and this charge is made for that purpose.
To exempt those students who choose to board out of Commons
from any part of it, would increase the expenses of those, who, from
economy or other motives, board in Commons. A committee of
the Corporation has been instructed to make a new contract for
Commons, with a view to diminishing the price, without reducing
them in quality, and instructed to apply to this object the whole
amount received under the charge above mentioned, excepting what