Records of the Tercentenary Celebration Office, 1930-1936.

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. Tercentennial Committee.

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Greene, Jerome D. (Jerome Davis), 1874-1955

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Greene graduated from Harvard in 1896, was Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Corporation and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Jerome D. Greene, 1894-ca. 1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973049 ...

Harvard University. Tercentenary Celebration Office.

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Planning for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College began in 1930 with the appointment of a Tercentenary Committee jointly by the President and Fellows and by the Board of Overseers. The Alumni Association was represented on this committee beginning in 1931, along with the Tercentenary Historian (Samuel Eliot Morison) and the Director of the University Library. In 1934, Jerome D. Greene was appointed Director of the Tercentenary Celebration. From ...

Harvard University Conference of Arts and Sciences (1936)

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