Records from the Committee on Choice of Electives, 1908-1949 (inclusive).

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. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committee on Choice of Electives.

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Greenough, Chester Noyes, 1874-1938

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Chester Noyes Greenough was born in Massachusetts of an old New England family and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard. He was head of the English Dept. at the University of Illinois, 1907-1910, then returned to Harvard as Professor and later as Dean. He wrote on English composition and literature. From the description of Chester N. and Ruth H. Greenough letters to Mr. Gomme, and broadside, 1936-1938. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 636...