Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1772-1809.

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Records relating to the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1772-1809.

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This collection documents the founding of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard which was endowed in 1771 by the will of Boston merchant Nicholas Boylston (1716-1771). The will, statutes, and other related documents describe the rules and regulations of the Boylston Professorship and demonstrate the selection process used to recruit and evaluate candidates to fill faculty positions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at Harvard University.

.98 cubic feet; (1 half-document box, 1 portfolio folder)

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Harvard University Archives.

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