This Commonwealth
Published: 2015-08-04
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Excerpt from Report Upon the Constitutional Rights and Privileges of Harvard College: And Upon the Donations That Have Been Made to It by the Commonwealth That, in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty six, the General Court of the Colony agreed to appropriate 400 towards a School, or College, In the year following, it was ordered that an Edifice should be erected for that purpose at Newton and twelve gentlemen were apppointed a Committee to have charge of the subject. In 1638, the name of Newton was changed to that of Cambridge; and it was ordered, that the College, to be erected at Cambridge, should be called Harvard College, in honor of the Rev. John Harvard, of Charlestown, who had contributed liberally to the fund And in 1640, the Rev. Henry Dunster was appointed first President. At this time, the property, appropriated to the support of the College, by the General Court, had not been vested in any persons whatever. It remained the property of the Colony, and was managed by a Committee of the General Court, or by the Magistrates and Elders, by authority of the General Court. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."