Professorship records: Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1813-1827 (inclusive).
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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...
Farrar, John, 1779-1853
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John Farrar was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts on July 1, 1779. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1803 and an A.M. in 1806. He was a tutor in Greek language at Harvard from 1805 to 1807, when he was named Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He was Hollis professor until 1836, and among his accomplishments was the publication of a textbook on the elements of algebra. He also received an L.L.D. from Brown University in 1833. John Farrar died in Boston on May 8, 1853. ...
