Professorship records: Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, 1807-1826 (inclusive).

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Professorship records: Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, 1807-1826 (inclusive).

Consists of papers of Sidney Willard and plan of public lectures.

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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...

Willard, Sidney, 1780-1856

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Willard graduated from Harvard in 1798 and taught Hebrew and Oriental languages at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Sidney Willard, 1807-1826 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972932 ...