Early Harvard University...
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August 27, 1810
BOSTON GAZETTE, Massachusetts, August 27, 1810
* Early Harvard
* Rev. John Thornton Kirkland
A page 2 report states that Board of Overseers of Harvard University: "...confirmed the appointment of the Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, D.D. as President of that...Institution..."
Also mentions that Timothy Pickering and Governor Gerry received honorary degrees.
Other news of the day with several advertisements including many illustrated ship ads.
4 pages in good condition.
source: wikipedia: John Thornton Kirkland (1770 – 1840) served as President of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828. A minister like many of his predecessors, he is remembered chiefly for his lenient treatment of students. Kirkland House, one of Harvard's undergraduate "houses," or residence halls, was named in his honor and in recognition of his term at the school's helm.
Oliver Wendell Holmes describes him thus, in his study of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "His 'shining morning face' was round as a baby's, and talked as pleasantly as his voice did, with smiles for accents and dimples for punctuation.... It was of him that the story was always told,--it may be as old as the invention of printing,--that he threw his sermons into a barrel, where they went to pieces and got mixed up, and that when he was going to preach he fished out what he thought would be about enough for a sermon, and patched the leaves together as he best might."
His contemporary George Ticknor described Kirkland's sermons as "full of intellectual wealth and practical wisdom, with sometimes a quaintness that bordered on humor."
* Early Harvard
* Rev. John Thornton Kirkland
A page 2 report states that Board of Overseers of Harvard University: "...confirmed the appointment of the Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, D.D. as President of that...Institution..."
Also mentions that Timothy Pickering and Governor Gerry received honorary degrees.
Other news of the day with several advertisements including many illustrated ship ads.
4 pages in good condition.
source: wikipedia: John Thornton Kirkland (1770 – 1840) served as President of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828. A minister like many of his predecessors, he is remembered chiefly for his lenient treatment of students. Kirkland House, one of Harvard's undergraduate "houses," or residence halls, was named in his honor and in recognition of his term at the school's helm.
Oliver Wendell Holmes describes him thus, in his study of Ralph Waldo Emerson: "His 'shining morning face' was round as a baby's, and talked as pleasantly as his voice did, with smiles for accents and dimples for punctuation.... It was of him that the story was always told,--it may be as old as the invention of printing,--that he threw his sermons into a barrel, where they went to pieces and got mixed up, and that when he was going to preach he fished out what he thought would be about enough for a sermon, and patched the leaves together as he best might."
His contemporary George Ticknor described Kirkland's sermons as "full of intellectual wealth and practical wisdom, with sometimes a quaintness that bordered on humor."
Category: Pre-Civil War
