Records of the Secretary to the Corporation, 1945-1996 (bulk), 1846-1996 (inclusive).

Harvard University. Corporation.

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Harvard College's primary governing board, the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (known as the Harvard Corporation), was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1650. The charter conferred on the Corporation the duties of managing the College, including appointing and removing administrators, faculty, and staff, creating orders and by-laws for the College, and managing finances, properties, and donations. The first recorded meeting of the Corporation was held on December 10, 16...

Arnold Arboretum

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The planning for the Arnold Arboretum Centennial celebration began in 1967 when Dr. Richard A. Howard, Arboretum Director from 1954-1978, appointed committees of supporters and visiting-committee members to raise funds for the upcoming event. The week-long celebration (May 21-28, 1972) opened with a banquet in a downtown Boston hotel that featured an address by William T. Stearn, famous taxonomist and botanist from the British Museum of Natural History. Events included a daylong symposium on "Po...

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...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

University of Oxford

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University of Oxford From the guide to the University of Oxford Musical Exercises, 1890, (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) Not applicable. From the guide to the Typescript Theses, 1910-55, (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) Rev. Samuel Myles graduated from Harvard College in 1684. From the description of Diploma : manuscript, 1693 July 14. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612804731 ...

Bussey Institution

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Bussey Institution was established by Harvard in 1869 as a school of agriculture and horticulture on land donated by Benjamin Bussey. Institute building and greenhouses were designed by Peabody & Stearns; construction began in 1871. Abolished as a school in 1931, Bussey became a center for research in genetics. After the land of the Institution was turned over to the Commonwealth of Mass., the Bussey Professorship of Biology was established. From the description of Drawings, 1925...

Kennedy, Sargent.

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Little, Clarence Cook

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Harvard University. Secretary to the Corporation.

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The Secretary to the Corporation functions as a corporate officer on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Secretary's job responsibilities are many and varied. From the description of Records of the Secretary to the Corporation, 1945-1996 (bulk), 1846-1996 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066776 1901 Office of Secretary to the President created ...

Harvard University. Herbaria.

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The Harvard Herbaria Building, located at 22 Divinity Ave., was built in 1954. The building links the Peabody Museum, Agassiz Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Herbarium, Farlow Herbarium, and the Biological Laboratories. Included in the Herbaria are what were once seven separate herbarium collections: the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, the Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames, the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, the Farlow Herbarium, the Gray Herbarium, and the New England Botanical C...

Greene, Jerome D. (Jerome Davis), 1874-1955

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Greene graduated from Harvard in 1896, was Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Corporation and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Jerome D. Greene, 1894-ca. 1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973049 ...

Bailey, David Washburn, 1899-

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Shenton, Robert W.

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