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the accOmniodation of students, which was called by his name. 

 Holden chapel },vas 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 Hollis, of London, who made 

 numerous and large benefactions to the college. Beside 

 these, the donations of Thomas Hancock, Drs. Ezekiel and 

 Abner Hersey, William Erving, esq., and several others, were 

 libei-al, and have contributed to extend the plan and Useful-* * 

 ness of the college^ All professorships bear the names of the' 

 gentlemen who either gave a fund for their support or con- 

 tributed 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 

 orieutal languages ; Hollis professor of mathematics and 

 natural philosophy ; Hersey professor of anatomy and sur- 

 gery; Hersey professor of the theory and practice of phy- ' 

 sic; Erving professor of chemistry and materia raedicaj'-' 

 and four tutors. 



The board of overseers consists of the governor, lieutMiant- 

 governor, the members of the council and senate, and the' 

 ministers of the congregational churches in Boston, Canii*'^ 

 bridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Roxbury, and Dorchester.' *V'1 



Thejiumber of students in this college may be estimated 

 on an average from 1 80 to 200. The greater part of these 

 board in the college. The expenses necessarily arising to 

 each student within the walls, i. c, boarding, tuition, room- 

 reat, &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; beside these, they attend to rhetoric. 

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

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

 Logic, Morse's Geography, and the use of the globe?; Se- 

 cond, year, classics, as before; French and Hebrew languages. 



