- Back to School Special - #1 - The History of Harvard University Volumes 1 & 2 By Josiah Quincy, 1840 637 + 725 pages, illustrated & indexed #2 – History of Harvard Law School Volumes 1 & 2 By C. C. Langdell, 1918 633 + 538 pages, illustrated & indexed **************************************************************** Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View **************************************************************** $9.99 thru Sept 3 (Reg. 17.99) + $1.99 shipping and handling Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College). Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 (which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels. Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top of international college and university rankings, and has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $28.8 billion as of 2008. Seven presidents of the United States – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush – were graduates of Harvard. Its faculty have produced more than 40 Nobel laureates. It was Harvard’s 200th anniversary that prompted the writing of this, by the sitting president. VOLUME FIRST (Quincy). CHAPTER I. Centennial Celebration in 1836. — Origin and Design of this History 17. — Vote of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, in 1636. — Bequest of John Harvard. State of the finances of the College. 1 CHAPTER II. Presidency of Charles Chauncy. — Previous Events of his Life. 24 CHAPTER III. Influence of the Clergy on the College. — Its catholic Spirit — CHAPTER IV. College Charter of 1692. — Its History and Results. 68 CHAPTER V. College Charter of 1696. — President Mather discontented with it 84 CHAPTER VI. Temporary Settlement of the College 103 CONTENTS. VII CHAPTER VII. Sectarian Controversies. — Attempts to remove John Leverett 127 CHAPTER VIII. The Rev. Samuel Willard accepts the Vice-Presidency 145 CHAPTER IX. Retrospective View of the Benefactors of the College, during the Seventeenth Century. — John Winthrop. — Sir Richard 162 CHAPTER X. Retrospect of political and religious Parties. 195 CHAPTER XI Indications of a Design to embarrass the Corporation. 213 CHAPTER XII. Benefactions of Thomas Hollis. — Their Origin, Motive, and Extent 230 CHAPTER XIII Tutors Sever and Welstoed claim Seats at the Board of Corporation 265 CHAPTER XIV. Proceedings of the Overseers on Sever and Welsteed's MemoriaL 289 CHAPTER XV. Increasing Influence of the Episcopal Church. 314 CHAPTER XVI Difficulties attending the Selection of a President — Cotton Mather, 338 CHAPTER XVII Change in the political Relations of Massachusetts 348 CHAPTER XVIII Wadsworth inaugurated. — General Court establish a Salary 377 CHAPTER XIX. Benefaction of the College. — John Hull. 405 APPENDIX. Early Records of the College. — Harvard’s Legacy List of Engravings -