Word: professorship
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...College had existed for 85 years before an endowed professorship was established. In 1721, Thomas Hollis gave the foundation fund for the professorship of divinity which still bears his name. He endowed Harvard outright with a sum of money, the interest of which 40 pounds per year, was to be the "honorable stipend" of Professor of Divinity, "to read lectures in the Hall of the College unto the students; the said Professor to be nominated and appointed from time to time by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; and when choice is made of a fitting person...
Hollis also established in 1727 a professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy. He had long meditated the subject, and wrote concerning it to his friend, Benjamin Colman, as follows: "Though jeered and sneered at by many I leave the issue to the Lord, for whose sake Isperform these offices and services, and hope I shall be enabled to continue firm and finish this affair, which I call a good work...
...until 1764 that a third endowed professorship was established at Harvard. In that year Thomas Hancock, uncle of the hero of the Revolution, founded by the terms of his will, a professorship of Hebrew and other oriental languages. For this purpose he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling, the income from which was to defray the expenses of the professor. Hancock, who was the first native American to lay the foundation of a professorship in any literary institution in this country, was born in Lexington. Stephen Sewall '21 was the first professor under this endowment. The present incumbent...
From this time onward the endowment of professorships at Harvard rapidly increased. Nicholas Boylston of Boston, when he died in 1771, bequeathed to the College 1,500 pounds for the foundation of a "Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors of the will to permit a full length portrait of Boylston to be drawn, at the expense of the College, and placed in Harvard Hall, with those of Hollis and Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples...
Edmund Trowbridge '28, and Richard Cary '63, as executors of the will of John Alford, who had died in 1761, established in Harvard College, according to the desires of Alford, in 1789, the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. Alford's will left $10,000 each to Harvard College; the "College of New Jersey", now Princeton; and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians...