But For The General
Management Of The Institution There Is A Corporation, Of Which He
Is One.
It is stated in the laws of the university that the
Corporation of the University and its Overseers constitute the
Government of the University.
The Corporation consists of the
President, five Fellows so called, and a Treasurer. These Fellows
are chosen, as vacancies occur, by themselves, subject to the
concurrence of the Overseers. But these Fellows are in nowise like
to the Fellows of our colleges, having no salaries attached to
their offices. The Board of Overseers consists of the State
Governor, other State officers, the President and Treasurer of
Harvard College, and thirty other persons, men of note, chosen by
vote. The Faculty of the College, in which is vested the immediate
care and government of the undergraduates, is composed of the
President and the Professors. The Professors answer to the tutors
of our colleges, and upon them the education of the place depends.
I cannot complete this short notice of Harvard College without
saying that it is happy in the possession of that distinguished
natural philosopher Professor Agassiz. M. Agassiz has collected at
Cambridge a museum of such things as natural philosophers delight
to show, which I am told is all but invaluable. As my ignorance on
all such matters is of a depth which the professor can hardly
imagine, and which it would have shocked him to behold, I did not
visit the museum. Taking the University of Harvard College as a
whole, I should say that it is most remarkable in this - that it
does really give to its pupils that education which it professes to
give.
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