College Books, 1636-1827

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College Books, 1636-1827

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This collection consists of eight bound volumes, known as the College Books, which contain Harvard Corporation records from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. They include the earliest known Corporation records. In addition to extensive minutes from Corporation meetings, the College Books also contain early minutes of Harvard's Board of Overseers and entries about a broad range of other topics, including donations from Thomas Hollis, the roles and responsibilities of the College Butler and Steward, and myriad gifts and bequests of money and property to the College. Also in the collection is an index to College Books 1-6, created by Harvard President Benjamin Wadsworth. Although it indexes a selective and relatively small number of topics, this volume is useful in locating entries on those topics and demonstrates which events and decisions Wadsworth deemed most important during his presidency.

3.2 cubic feet; (8 volumes and 3 folders)

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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, 16...