Professorship records: College Professorship of Logic and Metaphysics, 1825-1827 (inclusive).

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Professorship records: College Professorship of Logic and Metaphysics, 1825-1827 (inclusive).

Contains letters and other papers of Levi Hedge.

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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...

Hedge, Levi, 1766-1844

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Levi Hedge was born in Warwick, Massachusetts on April 19, 1766. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1792 and an A.M. in 1795. He also received an Honorary A.M. from Brown University in 1808 and an LL.D. from Yale in 1823. He was married to Mary Kneeland. Hedge taught at Harvard College for thirty-seven years, as tutor from 1795 to 1810, as College Professor of Logic and Metaphysics from 1810 to 1827, and as Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Ci...