Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University

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The University, 1890
 

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Page 14 - President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth, and the President of the College, for the time being, with fifteen Ministers of Congregational Churches, and the following persons by election.
Page 58 - Membership in the National Academy of Sciences ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society ; Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page 14 - Court, six of them are of the magistrates, the other six of the ministers, who are to promote the best good of it and (having a power of influence into all persons in it) are to see that every one be diligent and proficient in his proper place.
Page 14 - It is therefore ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that the Governor and Deputy Governor for the time being, and all the Magistrates of this jurisdiction, together with the teaching Elders of the six next adjoining towns, viz. Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester, and the President of the said College...
Page 14 - College for the time being, together with the ministers of the congregational churches in the towns of Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester...
Page 7 - After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 58 - Member of the Cabinet; Senator; Speaker and Member of the House of Representatives; Ambassador; Minister; Chief Justice and Justice of the Supreme Court; Chief Justice and Judge of the Court of Claims; Judge of a Circuit or District Court ; Major-General and higher ranks (not by brevet) ; Rear Admiral and higher ranks.

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