Miscellaneous athletic documents, 1897-1949 (inclusive).

Harvard University. Corporation.

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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...

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...

Yale University.

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Harvard University. Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports.

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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...

Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...