Records of the Committee on Study of Religion, 1941-1984 (inclusive).

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...

Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Established by Jacob Wendell scholars for income for annual scholars dinner. From the description of Barrett Wendell Fund records, ca. 1924-1983 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76974402 In the early years of the eighteenth century, the faculty (referred to as the "immediate government") began to emerge as a body having duties distinctive from those of the Corporation. While apparently not formally constituted, the immediate government (the President an...

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 1916-2000

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Professor Smith (1916-2000) was the foremost Canadian scholar on Islam and comparative religion. He founded the Institute for Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal in 1951, helped establish the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and the Department of Comparative Religion at Dalhousie University. His "The Meaning and End of Religion" (1963) was a groundbreaking study of the historical changes of meaning of such words as "religion", "faith", and "belief." Fr...

Harvard University. Committee on Study of Religion.

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