On freedom : commencement essay, 1793.

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On freedom : commencement essay, 1793.

Four-page handwritten essay titled "On Freedom" composed by graduate Joseph Stowers for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement. The essay begins, "Freedom alone constitutes the happiness of the human race..."

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Harvard University

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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 C...

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

Stowers, Joseph

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Joseph Stowers (1773-1851), a local official of Chelsea, Mass., was born on November 10, 1773 in Chelsea. He received an AB from Harvard in 1793 and an AM in 1796. He served as justice of the peace, town clerk, town-treasurer, selectman, and representative in Chelsea. Stowers died on August 31, 1851. From the description of On freedom : commencement essay, 1793. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 697961578 ...