Correspondence regarding exhibit, 1979 December.

Harvard University. Department of the Classics (1890)

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The Classics Department was formally established in 1890-1891 when departments first were recognized as organizational units within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, although the department had been in existence for some time. It was placed in the Division of Ancient Languages with the Department of Indo-Iranian Languages (later, Indic Philology). The Division of Ancient Languages last appears in the Catalogue in 1949-1950....

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...

American Pilological Association.

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Archaeological institute of America

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The AIA is an organization originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Harvard University professor Charles Eliot Norton and his friends and colleagues. The first meeting was in 1879 to form a society "for furthering and directing archaeological and artistic investigation and research." Norton was elected the first president. The first local society of the AIA was founded in Boston in 1884. From the description of Archaeological Institute of America records, 1879-1954. (Harvard...