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Harvard University (9655)

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General...

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Harvard University. Corporation. (421)

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Harvard College's primary governing board, the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (known as the Harvard Corporation), was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1650. The charter conferred on the Corporation the duties of managing the College, including appointing and removing administrators, faculty, and staff, creating orders and by-laws for the College, and managing finances, properties, and donations. The first recorded meeting of the Corporation was held on December 10,...

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Harvard university library (117)

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The University Library consists of all the collections of books in the possession of the University. It originated in 1638 with books left to the college by John Harvard. The library system currently consists of over 100 separate facilities, ranging from very small specialized collections to Widener Library, with its 5 million volumes. Each of the faculties within the University maintains one or more libraries serving its special constituency. The largest unit is the Harvard College Library (...

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Harvard University Press (109)

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Harvard University Press was established by the Harvard Corporation as a separate department of the University on January 13, 1913. It acted as both a printing and academic publishing organization until 1942, when the University Printing Office was re-established as a separate unit and Harvard University Press became responsible for only publishing activities. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in London, England. Every book published by the HUP must undergo review by...

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Harvard University. Archives (61)

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The Harvard University Archives was established in 1939 as a department of the University Library during the administrations of James Bryant Conant as President and Keyes Dewitt Metcalf as Director of the Library. For a number of years prior to this date, the Library had collected and preserved historical records and other material relating to the history of the University. These cards are the result of a project undertaken by Clark Eliot, Associate Cururator in the Harv...

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Harvard University. President's Office (90)

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The president of Harvard University is the chief administrator of Harvard University and the ex officio chairman of the Harvard Corporation. Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to the president the day-to-day running of the university.

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Harvard University. News Office (65)

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The Harvard University News Office was established in 1919. Paul Julius Weber, a well-known architectural photographer, was born on April 3, 1881 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was married to Florence A. Weber, and the couple had two daughters. Weber worked in the Boston area during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1929, Paul J. Weber was hired by the University to take a series of 150 photographs of the University’s buildings and grounds...

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Harvard University. Marshal. (40)

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Harvard University. Graduate School of Education (160)

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The Harvard University Graduate School of Education was established in 1920. From 1891 to 1920, the study of education at Harvard took place within two different divisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Until 1906, education faculty were appointed to the Division of Philosophy. In 1906, a separate Division of Education was established. Paul Henry Hanus held Harvard’s first faculty appointment in the field of education. Hanus was chair of the Division of Education from 1906 to 1912. Hen...

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Harvard University. Board of Overseers (91)

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The Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting was established in the spring of 1977 to recognize and encourage book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. It is sponsored by the Members of the Board of Overseer's Committee to Visit the Harvard University Library. The Board of Overseers is one of Harvard's two Governing Boards, the other one being the President and Fellows, more commonly known as the Corporation. The Board of Overseers consists of thirt...

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