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donation, the General Court, the same year, enlarged the 

 plan, and extended the powers of the institution, and gave 

 it the name of Harvard College. Degrees were first con- 

 ferred in the year 1642. 



This institution has to acknowledge the munificence of 

 many liberal individuals. In 1699, the Hon. William 

 Stoughton, Lieutenant-Governor of the province, erected 

 a Hail for the accommodation of students, which was called 

 by his name. Holden Chapel was erected in 1745, at the 

 expense of the widow and daughters of Samuel Holden, 

 one of the Directors of the Bank of England. Hollis-hall, 

 erected in 1762, was so called in honour of Thomas Hol- 

 lis, of London, who made numerous and large benefactions 

 to the College. Besides these, the donations of Thomas 

 Hancock, Drs. Ezekiel and Abner Hersey, William 

 Erving, Esquire, and several others, were liberal, and have 

 contributed to extend the plan and usefulness of the College. 

 All the Professorships bear the names of the gentlemen who 

 either gave a fund for their support, or contributed towards 

 this object. 



The immediate Officers of this College are, a President (who 

 is at present the Rev. Dr. Joseph Willard) ; Hollis Pro- 

 fessor of Divinity ; Hancock Professor of the Hebrew 

 and Oriental Languages; Hollis Professor of Mathematics 

 and Natural Philosophy ; Hersey Professor of Anatomy 

 and Surgery ; Hersey Professor of the Theory and Prac- 

 tice of Physic; Erving Professor of Chemistry and Ma- 

 teria Me die a ; and four Tutors. 



The Board of Ove, zeers consists of the Governor, Lieute- 

 nant-Governor ; the members of the Council and Senate, and 

 the Ministers of the Congregational Churches in Boston, 

 Cambridge, Watertown; Cliarlestown, Boxbury and Dor- 

 chester. 



The number of Students in this College may be estimated, 

 on an average, from 180 to 200. The greater part of these 

 board in the College. The expenses necessarily arising to 

 each student within the walls, ?'. e. boarding, tuition, room- 

 rent, &c. may be estimated at about 120 dollars per annum. 



The course of Instruction in this College is as follows : 

 First year, the Students read Sallust, Livy, Horace, Terence, 

 Homer, Xenophon; besides these, they attend to Rhetoric, 

 Millot's Elements of Universal History, Pike's Arithmetic, 

 Lowth's Grammar, French and Hebrew languages, Watts's 

 Logic, Morse's Geography, and the use of the globes. Second 



