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NOTICES 
 
 TRIENNIAL AND ANNUAL CATALOGUES 
 
 HAEYAED UNIYEESITY: 
 
 A REPRINT OF THE CATALOGUES OF 1674, 1682, AND 1700. 
 
 JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY, A.M., 
 
 LIBRARIAN OP HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AND MEMBER OP THE MASSACHUSETTS 
 AND OTHER HISTORICAL SOCIETIES. 
 
 ■oZ iO 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 
 1865. 
 
 "TJSr, 
 
LJjiH4 
 '5' 
 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 PraceelimgB of tf)e p[a00ac!)U0ett0 f^i'gtortcal Soctetg, 
 
 13 October, 1864. 
 
 One Hundred and Fifty Copies Separately Printed. 
 
 {L Thirty additional Copies on Large Pape 
 
 W//1 
 
 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 A WISH which was expressed at the Monthly Meeting 
 of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in April, 1864, 
 led to the preparation of that portion of the following 
 "Notices" which was read before the Society on the 
 ninth of the ensuing June. Since that time I have 
 added the Notes, the Account of the Interleaved Tri- 
 ennials, the " Appeal to Graduates and Others," and 
 the part which relates to the Annual Catalogues. 
 
 J. L. S. 
 
 Harvakd University Library, 
 Cambridge, June. 1865. 
 
TRIENNIAL AND ANNUAL CATALOGUES 
 
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES. 
 
 Catalogue of 1674. 
 
 Although the names of graduates of Harvard College, for 
 each year, were, at a very early date, — perhaps from the 
 first, — printed on the programme of the Commencement 
 exercises for that year, I am not aware that there is any 
 record to show when the first complete catalogue of all the 
 graduates was issued. The earliest of which I have any 
 knowledge is a broadside, which was found, in 1842, in the 
 State-paper OflSce at London (Colonial Papers, 1674), by 
 the honored Ex-President of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society, James Savage, LL.D., and is mentioned by him in 
 his " Gleanings for New-England History," in the Collections 
 of the Society (vol. xxviii. p. 341). When our associate, 
 Samuel Abbott Green, M.D., a graduate of the College in 
 1851, was about visiting England in 1857, another of our 
 associates, Nathaniel Bradstreet ShurtlefF, M.D., a graduate 
 in 1831, availing himself of Dr. Green's kind offer to serve 
 him, expressed a desire that he would procure a copy of this 
 Catalogue. Dr. Green made an application for leave to 
 transcribe it, and received the following note : • — 
 
TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 Colonial Office, 27th July, 1857. 
 Sir, — In reply to your letter of the 20th Instant, I am directed 
 by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to acquaint you that the Keeper of the 
 State Papers has been requested to afford you the usual facilities for 
 enabling you to* make a Copy of the Catalogue of 1674, relating to 
 Harvard College, Cambridge, New England. 
 
 I am Sir, your Obedient Servant, 
 
 Herman Meriyale. 
 S. A. Green, Esq., 
 
 London Coffee House, 
 
 Ludgate Hill. 
 
 Dr. Green copied the Catalogue for Dr. Shurtleff, 22 Octo- 
 ber, 1857; and from this transcript he made another, which, 
 with the preceding permit, he gave to the Library of 
 Harvard University, where they are preserved. Another 
 copy, but not so accurate, was procured from the State- 
 paper Office for the Historian of New England, Dr. John 
 Gorham Palfrey. 
 
 The original has " a pattern printed border," — heavier at 
 the sides than at the top and bottom, — and measures seven- 
 teen inches and a half by ten and a half. The dedication, 
 signed with the initials of President Hoar, extends across 
 the sheet.* The ninth and eleventh lines of it are so long, 
 that it has been here necessary to make two lines of each. 
 Under the dedication, the names of the graduates, which are 
 there in four columns, are here arranged in two. The fol- 
 lowing is a reprint of the original, with which, in the proof- 
 sheet, it has been carefully collated : — 
 
 * From these manuscript copies a reprint was attempted for the present " Notices " ; 
 but, not being satisfied with it, on the 14th of March, 1865, I sent a proof-sheet, for 
 collation with the original, to the agent of the College Library in London, Henry Tuke 
 Parker, Esq., a graduate in 1842. He entered heartily into the subject, carried the 
 proof to the State-paper Office, where it was carefully collated with the original by 
 W. Noel Sainsbury, Esq., and returned it in season for me to receive it 21 April. After 
 all these efforts to procure a correct copy, the reprint may be considered as exact, 
 even to retaining the errata, as can be reasonably expected under the circumstances. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 JOHANNI LEVERErrO Armigero, 
 
 MASSACHUSETTENSIS COLONIC GUBERNATORI : 
 
 CcBterifque Coloniarum Nov-AngliccB gentis Diccearchis ColendiJJimis ; 
 
 AcEarundem Vice-Gubernatoribus & MAGISTRATIBUS ASSISTENTIBUS ; 
 
 Authoritate, Prudentia, & vera Religione non minus ornatis quam Honoratis Viris : 
 
 Et Collegii Harvardini Curatoribus Perbenigne Vigilant ij/tmis, 
 
 Patronis & Benefacfloribus Munificentiflimis : 
 
 Nee Non 
 
 Omnibus Ecclejiarum Presbyteris^ Doctrijza, dignitate, <& Jincera Pie- 
 
 tate MeritiJJinie Reverendis : 
 
 Omnibus etiam in eodem Inclyto Lycao dextre & fideliter Docentibus atque Regentibus 
 
 Hunc Sobolis yarvardinag, per trium & triginta Annorum spatium ad Gradum aliquem 
 
 in Artibus admiffze Catalogum ' 
 
 Tanquam Memorialem & votivam Tabulam : 
 
 Honoris^ Gratitudinis, & Amoris Erg'o, DevotiJJime. Conjecrai 
 
 L. H. 
 
 1642. 
 
 Benjamin Woodbridg. 
 Georgius Downing. 
 Johannes Bulkleeus. Mr. 
 Gulielmus Hubbert. Mr, 
 Samuel Bellingham Mi". M.D. Lugd, 
 lohannes Wilfonus. Mr. 
 Henricus Saltonftall. 
 Tobias Barnardus. 
 Nathaniel Breufterus. 
 
 1643. 
 
 Johannes Jonefus. Mr. 
 Samuel Matherus. Mr. Sociics. 
 Samuel Danforth. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Allin. 
 
 1644. 
 
 1645. 
 Johannes Oliverus. 
 Jeremias Hollandus. 
 
 Gulielmus Amefius. 
 Johannes Ruflellus. Mr. 
 Samuel Stow. Mr. 
 Jacobus Ward. 
 Robertus Johnfon. 
 
 1646. 
 
 Johannes Alcock. Mr. 
 Johannes Brock. Mr. 
 Georgius Stirk. Mr. 
 Nathaniel White. Mr. 
 
 1647. 
 
 Jonathan Mitchel. Mr. Socius. 
 Nathaniel Matherus. Mr. 
 Comfort Starr. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Birden. 
 Abrahamus Waiver. 
 Georgius Haddenus. Mr. 
 Gulielmus Mildmay. Mr. 
 
 1648. 
 
TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 1649. 
 
 Johannes Rogers. Mr. 
 Samuel Eaton. Mr. Socius. 
 Urianus Oakes. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Collins. Mr. Soc. & Cantab: 
 Johannes Bowers. 
 
 1650. 
 Guilielmus Stoughton. Mr. Oxoni(E. 
 Johannes Gloverus. M.D. Aberdo- 
 Tofliua Hobartus. Mr. \nice. 
 
 Teremias Hobartus. Mr. 
 Edmundus Weld. 
 Samuel Phillipfius. Mr. 
 Leonardus Hoar. Mr. M.D. Cantab. 
 Ifaacus Allertonus. 
 Jonathan Inceus. Mr. 
 
 1651. 
 
 Michael Wigglefworth. Mr. Socius. 
 Marigena Cottonus. Mr. 
 Thomas Dudlseus. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Gloverus. Mr. 
 Henricus Butlerus. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Pelhamus. 
 Johannes Davilius. Mr. 
 Ifaacus Chauncaeus. Mr. 
 Ichabod Chaunceeus. Mr. 
 Jonathan Burraeus. Mr. 
 
 1652. 
 Jofephus Rowlandfonus. 
 
 1653- 
 Samuel Willis. 
 Johannes Angier. Mr. 
 Thomas Shepardus. Mr. Socius. 
 Samuel Novvellus. Mr. Socius. 
 Richardus Hubbert. Mr. 
 Johannes Whiting. Mr. 
 Samuel Hookerus. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Stone. 3Ir. Cantab. Angl: 
 Guilielmus Thomfonus. 
 ^li ad secundum gradutn admijjl fuere 
 
 1655- 
 Die sequente vera baccalaurei, ad secundum 
 
 gradum admijji ut maris esi, 1656. 
 
 Edvardus Rawfonus. 
 Samuel Broadftreet, Mr. Socius. 
 Jofhuah Long. Mr. 
 Samuel Whiting. Mr. 
 Jofhuah Moodseus, Mr. Socius. 
 Jofhuah Ambrofius. Mr : Oxonice. 
 Nehemiah Ambrosius. Mr. Socius. 
 Thomas Crosbseus. 
 
 1654. 
 
 Philippus Nelson. 
 
 Gerfhom Bulklieus. Mr. Socius. 
 Mordecai Matthufius. . 
 
 1656. 
 
 Eleazar Matherus. \_Hib : 
 
 Crefcentius Matherus. Mr: Dubl: 
 Robertus Painasus. Mr. 
 Subael Dummerus. \^gi<^- 
 
 lohannes Haynefius. Mr. Cantabri- 
 lohannes Eliotus. Mr. 
 Thomas Gravefius. Mr. Socius. 
 lohannes Emmerfonus. Mr. 
 
 1657- 
 Zecharias Symmefius Mr. Socius. 
 Zecharias Brigden. Mr. Socizis. 
 lohannes Cottonus. Mr. 
 lohannes Hale. Mr. 
 Elifha Cookeus. Mr. 
 lohannes Whiting. 
 Barnabas Chauncseus^. Mr. 
 
 165S. 
 
 lofephus Eliotus. Mr. 
 
 lofephus Haines. 
 
 Benjamin Bunker. Mr. 
 
 lonah Fordhamus. 
 
 lohannes Barfham. 
 
 Samuel Talcot. 
 
 Samuel Shepardus. Mr. Socius. 
 
 1659. 
 
 Nathanael Saltonflal. 
 Samuel Alcock. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Habijah Savagius. 
 Samuel Willai'dus. 
 Thomas Parifh. 
 Samuel Cheverus. 
 Ezechiel Rogers. 
 Samuel Belcherus. 
 lacobus Noyfe. 
 Mofes Noyfe. 
 
 1660. 
 
 Simon Broadftreet. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Collins. Mr. 
 Samuel Eliotus. Mr. Socius. 
 Gulielmus Whittinghamus. 
 lofephus Cookeus. 
 Samuel Carterus. 
 Manaffeh Armitagius. 
 Petrus Bulklseus. Mr. Socius. 
 
 1661. 
 
 lohannes Bellinghamus. Mr. 
 
 Nathaniel Chauncsus. Mr. Socius. 
 
 Elnathan Chauncaeus. Mr. 
 
 Ifrael Chauncjeus. J/r. 
 
 Compenfantius Osborne. 
 
 Daniel Weld. 
 
 lofephus Cookeus. 
 
 lofephus Whiting. Mr. Socius. 
 
 Caleb Watfonus. Mr. 
 
 lohannes Parkerus. 
 
 Thomas lohnfonns. 
 
 Bezaleel Shermanus. 
 
 1662. 
 
 lohannes Holiokus. 
 
 Benjamin Thomfonus. 
 
 Solomon Stoddardus. Mr. Socius. 
 
 Mofes Fiskffius. Mr. 
 
 Ephraim Savagius. 
 
 Thomas Oakes. 
 
 1663. 
 
 Samuel Symonds. 
 Samuel Cobbet. 
 lohannes Reynerus. 
 Benj'amin Blackman. 
 Thomas Mighil. Mr, 
 Nathaniel Cutler. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Mr. Socius. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 1664. 
 
 Alexander Nowellus. Mr. Socius. 
 lofiah Flintaius. Mr. 
 lofephus Pynchonus. 
 Samuel Brackenburius. Mr. 
 lohannes Woodbridge. 
 lofephus Eftabrookeus. 
 Samuel Street. 
 
 1665. 
 
 Benjamin Eliotus. Mr, 
 lofephus Dudlseus, 
 Samuel Bifhop. 
 Edvardus Michelfonus. 
 Samuel Mannaeus. 
 Sperantius Athertonus. 
 labez Foxius. Mr. 
 Caleb Cheefechaumuck 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Indus. 
 
 1666. 
 
 lofephus Brownaeus. Mr. Socius. 
 lohannes Richardfonus. Mr. Socius. 
 Daniel Mafonus. 
 lohannes Filerus. 
 
 1667. 
 
 lohannes Harriman. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Atkinfonus. 
 lohannes Fofterus. 
 Gerfhom Hobartus. Mr. 
 lapheth Hobartus. 
 Nehemias Hobartus. Mr. 
 Nicolaus Noyfe. 
 
 1668. 
 
 Adamus Winthropus. 
 lohannes Cullick. 
 Zecharias Whitmanus. 
 Abrahamus Pierfonus. 
 lohannes Prudden. 
 
 1669. 
 
 Samuel Epps. Mr. 
 Daniel Epps. 
 leremias Shepardus Mr. 
 Daniel Gookin Mr. Socius. 
 lohannes Bridghamus Mr. 
 
TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 Daniel Ruffellus Mr. 
 lofephus Taylerus Mr. 
 lacobus BaylcBus Mr. 
 lofephus Gerrifh 
 Samuel Treat Mr. 
 
 1670. 
 
 Nathaniel Higginfon. Mr. 
 Ammi-Ruhamah Corlet. Mr. 
 Thomas Clarke. Mr. 
 Georgius Burrough. 
 
 1671. 
 
 Ifaacus Fofterus. 
 
 Samuel Phips. 
 
 Samuel Sewall. Mr. Socius. 
 
 Samuel Matherus. 
 
 Samuel Danforth. 
 
 Petrus Thacherus. Mr. 
 Gulielmus Adamus. 
 Thomas Weld. Mr. 
 lohannes Bowles. Mr. 
 lohannes Nortonus. 
 Edvardus Taylorus. 
 
 1672. 
 
 1673. 
 
 Edvardus Pelhamus. 
 Georgius Alcock. 
 Samuel Angier. 
 lohannes Wife. 
 
 Socius. 
 
 1674. 
 
 Edmund Davy. 
 
 TTN regis magni diploma infigne Jacobii 
 -■— -' Quo data in Hefperiis^ terra colenda piis. 
 Regum illuftre decus, premat ut veftigia patris 
 
 Carolus innumeris regibus ortus avis, 
 SuppHcibus diploma novis dedit : unde Coloni 
 
 Protenus arva colunt, & fata laeta metunt. 
 Sad neque cura minor juvenum cultura : & alumnis 
 
 Mufarum Harvardi eft munere ftrudla domus, 
 Patroni, patres, & cum redtoribus almis, 
 
 Cura, confiliis, muneribufque fovent. 
 Unde favente Deo, in fjlvis Academia furgit; 
 
 Heu quam non fimilis matribus Anglicolis 
 Non matrona potens, ut vos : fed fedula nutrix : 
 
 Vivet in obfequiis matribus ufque fuis. 
 Si nos ampledli, prolemque agnofcere vultis. [,] 
 
 Qua veftrae foboli gaudia ! quantus honos ! 
 Pingitur his tabulis ftudiorum mefRs, honores 
 
 Pro merito juvenum munere, more dati. 
 Inter vidlrices lauros tibi Carole ferpat, 
 
 QiiEe spica eft fegetis, quam tibi fevit Avus. 
 
 Madii ejiote pit juvenes ; atque edite frudus 
 Condignos vejlrofemine, Rege, Deo. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. i 
 
 The preceding Catalogue is distinguished from the modern 
 Triennials by the absence of stars to designate deaths, of 
 Italics to designate ordained ministers, and of obituary dates. 
 In this, as in the other early catalogues, surnames, as well as 
 the Christian names, are generally Latinized. At the end, 
 printed under the third and fourth columns, are twenty-two 
 Latin verses, apparently prepared for the occasion.* In mod- 
 ern Triennials, there is no dedication ; but, at the beginning 
 of this, there is one, somewhat like the dedications on the 
 modern programmes for Commencement ; and yet it is differ- 
 ent, as it is by the President, instead of the members of the 
 graduating class, and it is considerably longer. 
 
 * The following translation, which is almost word for word, is furnished by a 
 member of the Society, who has taken a special interest in the Catalogues : — 
 
 Lo the famed charter of the great king James ! 
 By which here in the West was given a land 
 To pious men, by their hands to be tilled. 
 
 Charles, too, bright honor of the royal name. 
 Descended from innumerable kings. 
 That he might press the footsteps of his sire 
 Another charter to new suppliants gave : 
 Hence do the Colonists go on to till 
 Their arable fields, and joyful reap their crops. 
 
 But the due culture of our rising youth, 
 The Muses' nurslings, is no less a care : 
 And, by the noble gift of Harvard, here 
 There has for them been built a fitting home ; 
 Patrons and fathers and kind goTernors 
 Foster it with care, with counsels, and with gifts. 
 
 Thus, by God's favor, rises in these woods 
 A young Academy. Ah! how unlike 
 Her mothers, dwelling on the soil of England ! 
 No powerful matron is she, such as ye; 
 But yet, a faithful and a sedulous nurse. 
 She in all reverence towards you will live. 
 If you embrace us and your offspring own. 
 What joy, what honor, to your progeny ! 
 
 Upon this tablet there is painted out 
 The gathered harvest of our studious youth. 
 Honors conferred as their deserved reward. 
 
 'Mong thy victorious laurels let there twine 
 This spike, Charles, culled from the ripened growth 
 Of a fair field thy Grandsire sowed for thee. 
 
 Go on, then, pious youth ; and bring forth fruits 
 Worthy your origin, your King, your God. 
 
8 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 A peculiarity, which at first appears inexplicable, is the 
 circumstance, that, while later Triennials include three names 
 in the class of 1674, — the year in which the Catalogue was 
 issued, — this Catalogue has but one, — " Edmund Davy," 
 The name of "Joseph Hawley, 1675," which now appears in 
 the class, was not then printed, because he did not take his 
 degree till the next year. 
 
 The omission of the name of Thomas Sergeant, and its 
 subsequent insertion as though there had been no irregu- 
 larity, may be thus explained : Chief-Justice Sewall, who took 
 bis second degree in that year, in his " Diary," writes, — if 
 the copy which I quote is correct: — 
 
 " 1674, June 15, Thomas Sargeant was examined by y* Corpora- 
 tion finally, y" advice of M'' Danforth, Mr Stoughton, Mr Thacher, 
 Mr Mather, (y" present) was taken. This was his sentence. 
 
 " That being convicted of speaking blasphemous words against 
 y" H. G. [Holy Ghost] he should be therefore publickly whipped 
 before all y^ scholars. 
 
 " 2. That he should be suspended as to taking his degree of 
 Bachelour. (this sentence read before him twice at the P'" [Presi- 
 dents] before y'' Committee & in y*" Library . . . before execution) 
 " 3. Sit alone by himself in y" Hall uncovered at 
 meals, during the pleasure of the President & frs 
 [Fellows] & be in all things obedient, doing what 
 exercise was apointed him by the President or else be 
 " Mr Dan. finally expelled the Colledge. The first was presently 
 " Mr Gook. put in execution in y° Library (Mr Danforth jr. being 
 " Sa Sewall present) before the Scholars. He kneeled down, & the 
 instrument Goodman Hely attended y" presidents word 
 as to y* performance of his part in y° work. Prayer 
 was had before and after by the President. July 1, 
 1674." 
 
 On consulting the Records of the Corporation of the Col- 
 lege, I find, under the date of 11 December of the same 
 year, that, " The Overseers having consented, the Corporation 
 order that Thomas Sergeant take his degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts from which by y™ and the Corporation he was suspended." 
 
HAEVARD UNIVERSITY. U 
 
 "Dec 2]» 1674. The Corporation (on occasion of Thomas Ser- 
 jeants going to sea next week) and in pursuance of the order made 
 Dec. 11, he performing all exercises before them which were wont to 
 be done in publick, The Pi'esident did admit him to the degree of 
 Batchelour of Arts." 
 
 So that, though Sergeant's name does not appear on the 
 Catalogue pubUshed at the Commencement in 1674, he re- 
 ceived his degree before the expiration of that year. I have 
 not been able to find any other information respecting him, 
 except that he is starred as dead in the Triennial of 1700, and 
 also in Cotton Mather's " Magnalia," from which it seems 
 that he died as early as 1698. If it were not for the state- 
 ment, 21 December, 1674, that he was " going to sea next 
 week," the fact that he did not take his second degree, when 
 much importance was attached to that honor, would make it 
 probable that he died in less than three years after his 
 graduation; and I find no evidence that he did not. 
 
 It is not unreasonable to suppose, that the course of gov- 
 ernment and discipline, indicated by what Sergeant under- 
 went, had something to do with the unpopularity of President 
 Hoar. Although the ignominious flogging was by the advice 
 of such men as Sewall names, it was only about a fortnight 
 afterwards, on the 16th of July, that Increase Mather writes 
 thus : " Cotton having received some discouragement at 
 the college, by reason that some of the scholars threatened 
 him, &c., as apprehending that he had told me of their 
 miscarriages, he returned home to me." The action of 
 the General Court, in the month of October, encouraged the 
 students in their insubordination ; and, " Nov. 15. — The 
 scholars, all except three, whose friends live in Cambridge^ 
 left the college." President Hoar was compelled to resign 
 on the 15th of the following March; and, on the 28th of the 
 su^bsequent November, he " died, having been brought into a 
 consumption by the grief he sustained through afflictions 
 when President." 
 
10 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 Catalogue of 1682. 
 The next Catalogue appears to have been issued in the 
 year 1682. Of this, as of the Catalogue of 1674, but a single 
 copy exists. It is the oldest printed catalogue of Harvard 
 Graduates which has been found on this continent. My atten- 
 tion was first called to it, in the year 1844, by the late Rev. 
 Benjamin Clark Cutler Parker, of the class of 1822, minister of 
 the " Floating Church of our Saviour for Seamen in the Port 
 of New York." I expressed great surprise at the existence 
 of so early a catalogue, and thought there must be some 
 mistake as to the date. The result was a letter from Mr. 
 Parker, inclosing the Catalogue, with the following com- 
 munication, which is printed entire, as it contains some 
 statements of interest in addition to those which relate to 
 the Catalogue. 
 
 " New York, Jan. 16, 1845. 
 " Dear Sir, — I have had it in mind, for some time past, to trans- 
 mit to you for acceptance a catalogue of the alumni of Harvard 
 University, on a printed sheet, 1682. I am informed by the Rev. 
 Mr. Parker, of the Episcopal Church in this city, and one of the 
 graduates of Harvard, that the oldest catalogue in your possession is 
 of a date some years later ; and that the possession of this would be 
 esteemed valuable by you. The manner in which it came to my 
 hands may impart additional interest to it. Three or four years 
 since, the General Synod of our church committed to me the office of 
 procuring materials for the preparation of a history of our Church. 
 As our early churches were formed under the care and superintend- 
 ence of the Classis of Amsterdam, and continued so for a long period 
 of years, it was deemed of importance to refer to the archives of that 
 Classis. Through the agency of J. R. Brodhead, Esq., the Histori- 
 cal Agent of the State, visiting the Hague in 1842, for the promotion 
 of his object, the Classis were induced to grant the loan of original 
 documents, letters from ministers, ecclesiastical bodies, &c., and 
 copies from their minutes, correspondence, &c. The catalogue now 
 sent to you was forwarded to the Classis of Amsterdam by the 
 Rev. Henry Selyns, of the Reformed Dutch Church in this city. 
 Mr. Selyns wag first settled on Long Island from 1-660 to 1664, 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 11 
 
 when he returned to Holland. Such was the reputation that he left 
 behind him as a minister and as a man, that, on two recurring vacan- 
 cies, the church at New York at once called him ; and, on the second 
 call, he became their pastor from 1681 to 1701. He was a man of 
 learning and worth. In his letters to the Classis- of Amsterdam, he 
 makes occasional references to Harvard (" the college at Cambridge, 
 N.E."); and it appeare that he was in correspondence with some 
 of the ministers of Boston, particularly Cotton Mather. You will 
 find prefixed to C. Mather's " Magnalia Americana," a Latin poem 
 over his signature. Rev. Mr. Selyns procured a copy of Eliot's 
 Indian Bible, and presented it to the Classis of Amsterdam, the 
 receipt of which was gratefully acknowledged by them. 
 
 " The Rev. Johannes Megapolensis was first minister of Renssel- 
 aerwyck (now Albany) from 1642 to 1648. In that year he became 
 pastor of the church at New Amsterdam, and continued so until his 
 death in 1670. I find, from his letters, that he placed his son 
 Samuel in your Harvard College for two years ; when he sent him to 
 Leyden University in Holland, where he pursued and finished a 
 theological and medical course. He returned to New York in 1662 ; 
 when he became a colleague pastor with his father and the Rev. Mr. 
 Drisius. He was one of the commissioners appointed by Gov. Stuy- 
 vesant at the time of the surrender of the Colony to the British. 
 " Yours with great respect, 
 
 " Thomas Db Witt." 
 
 A memorandum on Mr. Parker's letter says : — 
 "Amsterdam, 20 Sept., 1841. — Received from Scriba of Classis. 
 
 " J. ROMEYN BrODHEAD." 
 
 This Catalogue has been bound with the letters of Dr. De 
 Witt and Mr. Parker, and is now in the Library of Harvard 
 College. In the year 1849, Dr. Shurtleif printed from it, in 
 the octavo form, twenty copies from types set up with his 
 own hands. Like the one issued in 1674, it is a broadside, in 
 four columns. With the surrounding border, it measures 
 ten inches and three-quarters by fourteen and a quarter. 
 In the following reprint the last seven lines of the Presi- 
 dent's dedication make, in the original, but four, which are 
 here denoted by upright strokes : — 
 
12 
 
 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 HONORATISSIMO 
 Simoni Bradftreeto: 
 
 MASSACHUSETTENSIS COLONIC in NOV-ANGLIA GUBERNATORI, C^- 
 
 TEMS^ ACADEMIC CURATORIBUS PERQUAM | HONORANDIS ^ 
 
 REVERENDIS; Hunc, eonan qui in COLLEGIO HARVARDINO, 
 
 intra annos quadraginta, | Alicujus gradus Laurea, donati funt, 
 
 Catalogum, Honoris & Gratitudinis Ergo; Devoto Cultu, 
 
 infcribit & oflfertl CRESCENTIUS MATHERUS, 
 
 Cum fupradidi Gynmajii Sociis. 
 
 I 642. 
 
 BEnjaminWoodbridge. S.Th.D. 
 Georgius Downing. 
 Johannes Bulklseus. Mr. 
 Gulielmus Hubbard. Mr. 
 Samuel Bellingham. Mr.M.D.Liigd. 
 Johannes Wilfonus. Mr. 
 Henricus Saltonftal. 
 Tobias Barnardus. S^Hib. 
 
 Nathaniel Breufterus. Th. Bacc.Dubl. 
 
 1643. 
 Johannes Jonefius. Mr. 
 Samnel Matherus. Mr Socius. 
 Samuel Danforth. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Allin. 
 
 1645. 
 Johannes Oliverus. 
 Jeremias Hollandus. 
 Gulielmus Amefius. 
 Johannes Ruflellus. Mr. 
 Samuel Stow Mr. 
 Jacobus Ward. 
 Robertus Johnfon. 
 
 1646. 
 Johannes Alcock. Mr. 
 Johannes Brock. Mr. 
 
 Georgius Stirk. Mr. 
 Nathaniel White. Mr. 
 
 1647. 
 Jonathan MItchel. Mr Sochis. 
 Nathaniel Matherus. Mr. 
 Confolantius Star. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Birden. 
 Abrahamus Waiver. 
 Georgius Haddenus. Mr. 
 Gulielmus Mildmay. Mr. 
 
 1649. 
 Johannes Rogers. Mr. Prc^fes Elect. 
 
 Samuel Eaton. Mr. Socius. 
 
 C^rianus Oakes. Mr. Socius, Prcefes. 
 Johannes Collins. Mr. Socius, 
 Johannes Bowers. 
 
 1650. 
 Gulielmus Stoughton. Mr. Oxonii. 
 Johannes Gloverus. M.D.Aberdonice. 
 Jofhua Hobartus. Mr. 
 Jeremias Hobartus Mr. 
 Edmundus Weld. 
 
 Samuel Philipfms. Mr. \_Pra;fes. 
 Leonardus Hoar. Mr. M.D. Cantab. 
 Ifaacus Allertonus. 
 Jonathan Incajus. Mr. 
 
 I 65 I. 
 Michael Wigglefworth. Mr. Socius. 
 Marigena Cottonus. Mr. 
 Thomas Dudlseus. Mr. Socius. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 13 
 
 Johannes Gloverus. Mr. 
 Henricus Butlerus. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Pelhamus. 
 Johannes Davifius. Mr. 
 Ifaacus Chauncajus. Mr. 
 Ichabod Chauncteus. Air. 
 Jonathan Burrseus. Mr. 
 
 1652. 
 Jofephus Rowlandfonus. 
 
 1653. Aug. 9. 
 
 Samuel Willis. 
 Johannes Angier. Mr. 
 Thomas Shepardus. Mr. Socius. 
 Samuel Nowel, Mr. Socius. 
 Richardus Hubbard. Air. 
 Johannes Whiting. Mr. 
 Samuel Hookerus. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Stone. Mr. Cantab. Angl. 
 Gulielmus Thomfonus. 
 
 ^uiadfeciuidiungradum admijjlfuere 1655. 
 
 Diei Jequetttis Baccalaurei, ad fecu7idum 
 
 gradum admijji ut maris eji. 1656. 
 
 1653. Aug. 10. 
 Edvardus Rawfonus. 
 Samuel Bradftreet. Mr. Socius. 
 Jofhuah Long. Air. 
 Samuel Whiting. Air. 
 Jofhuah Moodffius. Air. Socius. 
 Jofhua Ambrolius. Air. Oxo7tii. 
 Nehemiah Ambrofius. Air. Socius. 
 Thomas Crosbeeus. 
 
 1654. 
 Philippus Nelfon. 
 
 Gei-fliom Bulklaius. Air. Socius. 
 Mordecai Matthufius. 
 
 1656. 
 Eleazarus Matherus. 
 Crefcentius Matherus. Alr.Dubl.Hib. 
 
 ( Socius (& Frees. Pro Tempore. 
 Robertus Painteus Mr. 
 Subael Dummerus. 
 Johannes Hayneiius. Air. Cantab. 
 
 Johannes Eliotus. Air. 
 Thomas Gravelius. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Emmerfonus. Mr. 
 
 Zecharias Symmefius. M. Socizts. 
 Zecharias Brigden. Mr. Socius. 
 Johannes Cottonus. Mr. 
 Johannes Hale. Mr. 
 Elifhah Cookceus. Mr. 
 Johannes Whiting. 
 Barnabas Chauncsus. Mr. 
 
 1658. 
 Jofephus Eliotus. Mr. 
 Jofephus Haines. 
 Benjamin Bunker. Mr. 
 Jonah Fordhamus. 
 Johannes Barfham. 
 Samuel Talcot. 
 Samuel Shepardus. Mr. Socius. 
 
 1659. 
 Nathaniel Saltonflal. 
 Samuel Alcock. 
 Habijah Savagius. 
 Samuel Willardus. 
 Thomas Parifh. 
 Samuel Cheverus. 
 Ezekiel Rogers. 
 Samuel Belcherus. 
 Jacobus Novfe. 
 Mofes Noyfe. 
 
 1660. 
 Simon Bradflreet. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Collins. Mr. 
 Samuel Eliotus. Mr. Socius 
 Gulielmus Whittinghamus. 
 Jofephus Cookaeus. 
 Samuel Carterus. 
 Manafleh Armitagius. 
 Petrus Bulklaeus. M. Socius 
 
 1661. 
 
 Johannes Bellingham. 
 Nathaniel Chauncceus. 
 Elnathan Chauncseus. 
 Ifrael Chaunczeus. Mr, 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Mr. Socius. 
 Mr. 
 
14 
 
 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 Compenfantius Osborn. 
 Daniel Weld, 
 yofephus Cookgeus. 
 yofephus Whiting. M. Soci. 
 Caleb Watfonus. Mr. 
 Johannes Parkerus. 
 Thomas yohnfonus. 
 Bezaleel Shermannus. 
 
 1662. 
 Johannes Holiokus. 
 Benjamin Thomfonus. 
 Solomon Stodardus. Mr. Socius. 
 Moles FiskEEus. Mr. 
 Ephraim Savagius. 
 Thomas Oakes. 
 
 1663. 
 Samuel Symondus. 
 Samuel Cobbet. 
 Johannes Reynerus. Mr. 
 Benjamin Blackman. 
 Thomas Mighil Mr. 
 Nathaniel Cutler. 
 
 1664. 
 Alexander Nowellus M. So. 
 Jofia h Flintajus. Mr. 
 
 lofephus Pynchonus. M. Soc. 
 Samuel Bi-akenburius. Mr. 
 yohannes VVoodbridge. 
 5^ofephus Eaftabrookeus. M. 
 Samuel Street. 
 
 1665. 
 Benjamin Eliotus. Mr. 
 yofephus Dudlasus. Mr. 
 Samuel Bifhop. 
 Edvardus Mitchelfonus. 
 Samuel Mannasus. 
 Sperantius Athertonus. 
 yabez Foxius. Mr. 
 Caleb Cheefchaumuk. Indus 
 
 1666. 
 yofephus Brownseus. Mr. Socius. 
 yohannes Richardfonus Mr. Socius. 
 Daniel Mafonus. 
 Johannes Filerus. 
 
 1667. 
 
 Johannes Harriman. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Atkinfonus. 
 yohannes Fofterus. 
 Gerfhom Hobartus : Mr' 
 yapheth Hobartus. 
 Nehemias Hobartus. M. So. 
 Nicolaus Noyfe. 
 
 1668. 
 
 Adamus Winthropus. 
 ybhannes Cullick. 
 Zecharias VVhitmanus. 
 Abrahamus Pierfonus. 
 Johannes Prudden. 
 
 1669. ■ 
 Samuel Epps. Mr. 
 Daniel Epps. 
 
 yeremias Shepardus. Mr. 
 Daniel Gookin. Mr. Socius 
 yohannes Bridghamus. Mr. 
 Daniel Ruflellus. Mr. 
 yofephus Taylorus. Mr. 
 yacobus Baylseus Air. 
 yofephus Gerrifh. 
 Samuel Treat. Mr. 
 
 1670. 
 Nathaniel Higginfon. Mr. 
 
 Ammi-Ruhamah Corlet. Mr. Socius 
 Thomas Clark. Mr. 
 Georgius Burrough. 
 
 1671. 
 Ifaacus Fofterus. M. Socius. 
 Samuel Phips Mr. 
 Samuel Sewall. Mr. Socius 
 Samuel Matherus. 
 Samuel Danforth. M. Socius 
 Petrus Thacherus. M. Socius 
 Gulielmus Adamus. Mr. 
 Thomas Weld Mr. 
 yohannes Bowles Mr. 
 yohannes Nortonus. 
 Edvardus Taylorus. 
 
 1673. 
 Edvardus Pelhamus. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 15 
 
 Georgius Alcock. 
 Samuel Angier. Mr. 
 Johannes Wife. Mr. 
 
 1674. 
 Edmundus Davie. 
 Thomas Sergeant. 
 
 1675- 
 yofephus Hauley. 
 yohannes Pike. Mr. 
 Jonathan Ruflellus Mr. 
 Petrus Oliverus. Mr. 
 Samuel Andrew. Mr. Socius 
 jacobus Minot. 
 Timotheus Woodbridge. Mr. 
 Daniel AUin Mr. 
 Johannes Emmerfonus. Mr. 
 Nathaniel Gookin. Mr, 
 
 1676. 
 Thomas Shepardus. Mr. 
 Thomas Brattle Mr. 
 Jeremiah Cufhing. 
 
 1677. 
 Thomas Cheverus. Mr. 
 Johannes Danforth. Mr. 
 Edvardus Payfon. Mr. 
 Samuel Sweetman 
 lofephus Capen. Mr 
 Thomas Scottow. 
 
 1678. 
 
 lohannes Cottonus M. Socius. 
 Cottonus Matherus. Mr. 
 Grindallus Rawfonus Mr. 
 ^'i'ianus Oakes. 
 
 1679. 
 
 Jonathan Danforth. Mr. 
 Edvardus Oakes Mr. 
 lacobus Ailing Mr. 
 Thomas Barnardus. Mr. 
 
 i68o- 
 
 Richardus Martin, 
 lohannes Leverettus. 
 lacobus Oliver. 
 Gulielrnus Brattle. 
 Percivallus Green. 
 
 1681. 
 
 Samuel Mitchel. 
 /ohannes Cottonus 
 lohannes Hafting. 
 Noadiah Ruflel. 
 Jacobus Pierpoint 
 Johannes Davie - 
 Samuel Ruffel. 
 Guilielmus Denifon 
 Jofephus Eliot. 
 
 BOSTONS Nov-Anglo 
 
 Die Sexto ante Idus Sextiles. Anno. 1682. 
 
16 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 Catalogue in Mather's "Magnalia." 
 The next catalogue of graduates which has come to my 
 knowledge is printed as a part of Mather's " Magnalia " ; the 
 title-page of which bears the imprint of London, 1702, though 
 the contents are none of them later probably than early in 
 1699. The Catalogue covers nearly four pages, three col- 
 umns on a page. Stars are, for the first time, placed against 
 the names of the deceased graduates ; and antiquaries are 
 commonly agreed in regarding the Catalogue as made up and 
 finished in 1698. It does not contain a dedication, but has 
 merely the title, — 
 
 "CATALOGUS, 
 Eorum qui in Collegio Harvardino, quod eft Canta- 
 BRiGi^ Nov-Atiglorum^ ab Anno 1642. ad Annum 1698. alicujus 
 gradus Laurea donati funt." 
 
 At the end, under the last column, are the words, " Illi 
 quorum NominihuslicBG Nota * Prcejigitur, e Vivis cesserunV 
 
 At the bottom of the Catalogue are the words, " Canta- 
 BRiGi^ Nov-Anglorum Sexto Quintilis. M DC XC VIII," 
 
 Of this Catalogue, Dr. Shurtleff has also printed twenty 
 copies in octavo. 
 
 Catalogue of 1700. 
 
 The Catalogue of 1700, found among the Winthrop papers, 
 and presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society by the 
 President, the Hon. Robert Charles Winthrop, LL.D., was, 
 with his approbation, generously given by the Society to the 
 Library of Harvard University. Like the others, it is a broad- 
 side ; but it is arranged in six columns. It has no printed 
 border or dedication. It is the earliest broadside, now 
 known, which has the stars.* The last three lines of the 
 reprint of the title make, in the original, but two, here 
 separated by an upright stroke. 
 
 * As but a single copy of any of the three catalogues which are here reprinted is 
 known to exist, it seemed desirable, by multiplying copies, to preserve the text, as 
 well as to aid persons whose investigations make each of these Catalogues important. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 17 
 
 CATALOGUS, 
 
 Eorum qui in COLLEGIO HARVARDINO, quod eft CANTABRIGI^ 
 
 NOV-ANGLORUM, | ab Anno 1642. ad Annum 1700. 
 
 alicujus gradus Laurea donati funt. 
 
 1642. 
 
 * ■ ^ Enjamin Woodbridge. 
 H— ^ * Georgius Downing. 
 
 I M* Joh'innes Bulkljeus Mr. 
 -■-^ Gulielmus Hubbard Mr. 
 Samuel Bellingham Mr. M.D. Ludg. 
 
 * Johannes Wilfonus Mr. 
 
 * Henricus Saltonftall. 
 
 * Tobias Barnardus 
 
 * Nathaniel Brufterus. 77^. Bac. Diib. 
 
 1643. Hib. 
 
 * Johannes Jonefius Mr. 
 
 * Samuel Matherus Mr. Socins 
 
 * Samuel Danforth Mr. SorillS 
 
 * Johannes Allin. 
 
 1644. 
 1645. 
 
 * Johannes Oliverus. 
 
 * Jei'emias HoUandus. 
 
 * Guilielmus Amefius. 
 
 * Johannes Ruflellus Mr. 
 Samuel Stow Mr. 
 
 * Jacobus Ward 
 
 * Robertus Johnfon. 
 
 1646. 
 
 * Johannes Alcock Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Brock Mr. 
 
 * Georgius Stirk. 
 
 * Nathaniel White Mr. 
 
 1647. 
 
 * Jonathan Mitchel Mr. SociUj 
 
 * Nathaniel Matherus Mr. 
 Confolantius Star Mr. 6ociU5 
 
 * Johannes Barden. 
 
 * Abrahamus Waiver. 
 
 * Georgius Haddenus Mr. 
 
 * Guilelmus Mildmay Mr. 
 
 1648. 
 1649. 
 
 * Johannes Rogerlius Mr. Prcefes. 
 
 * Samuel Eaton Mr. Gocius 
 
 * Urianus Oakes Mr. QociUS Prcefes. 
 
 * Johannes Collins Mr. Qocius 
 
 * Johannes Bowers. 
 
 1650. 
 Guilielmus Stoughton. Mr. Oxonii. 
 
 * Johannes Gloverus M D. Abird.' 
 Jofhua Hobartus Mr. 
 
 Jeremias Hobartus Mr. 
 
 * Edmundus Weld. 
 
 * Samuel Philipfms Mr. 
 
 * Leonardus Hoar Mr. ALD Cantabr. 
 
 * Ifaacus Altertonus (^Prcefes 
 
 * Jonathan Inceus Mr. 
 
 1651. 
 Michael Wigglefworth Mr. SociUS 
 
 * Marigena Cottonus Mr. 
 
 * Thomas Dudljeus Mr. 60 CUTS 
 
 * Johannes Gloverus Mr. 
 
 * Henricus Butlerus Mr^ 
 
 * Nathaniel Pelhamus. 
 
 * Johannes Davilius Mr. 
 Ifaacus Chaunczeus Mr. 
 
 * Ichabod Chauncseus Mr. 
 
 * Jonathan Burrseus Mr. 
 
 1652. 
 
 * Josephus Rowlandfonus. 
 
 1653. Aug 9. 
 Samuel Willis. 
 
 * Johannes Angier Mr. 
 
 * Thomas Shepardus Mr. Sodus 
 
 * Samuel Nowel Mr. SociltS 
 
 * Richardus Hubbard ]\Ir. 
 
 * Johannes Whiting Air. 
 
18 
 
 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 * Samuel Hookerus Mr Socius 
 
 * Johannes Stone Mr. Cajitab. Angl. 
 Guilielmus Thomfonus 
 
 ^ui ad fecundum Gradtim admljji 
 fuere 1655. Diet fequentis Bac- 
 calaicrei, ad fecundum Gradum 
 admijji ut inoris ejl. 1656. 
 1653. Aug 10. 
 
 * Edvardus Rawfonus. 
 
 * Samuel Bradftreet Mr. Sccius 
 
 * Jofhua Long Mr. 
 Samuel Whiting Mr 
 
 * Jofhua Moodey Mr Qocius 
 Jofhua Ambrolius Mr Oxonii. 
 
 * Nehemiah Ambrofius Mr. Socius 
 Thomas Crosbaeus. 
 
 1654. 
 
 * Philippus Nelfon. 
 
 1655. 
 Gerfhom BulkljEus Mr SonUS 
 Mordecai Mathewfius. 
 
 1656. 
 
 * Eleazarus Matherus 
 Crefcentius Matherus Mr. Dubl. Hib. 
 
 (Gocms, Rector^ Prcefes. S. T. D. 
 Robertus Painseus Mr. 
 
 * Subael Dummerus 
 
 * Johannes Haynelius Mr Cantab. 
 
 * Johannes Eliotus Mr. 
 
 * Thomas Gravefius Mr SoriU3 
 Johannes Emmerfonus Mr. 
 
 1657- ^ . 
 Zecharias Symmes Mr. SoClUS 
 
 * Zecharias Brigden Mr Socius 
 
 * Johannes Cottonus Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Hale Mr. 
 Elifha Cooke Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Whiting. 
 
 * Barnabas Chauncasus Mr. 
 
 1658. 
 
 * Jofephus Eliotus Mr. 
 
 * Jofephus Haynes. 
 
 * Benjamin Bunker Mr. 
 Jonah Fordhamus. 
 
 * Johannes Barfliam. 
 
 * Samuel Talcot. 
 
 * Samuel Shepardus Mr iSocius. 
 
 1659. 
 Nathaniel Saltonftall. 
 
 * Samuel Alcock. 
 *Abijah Savagius. 
 Samuel Willard Mr. SociuS. 
 Thomas Parifh. 
 
 Samuel Cheverus. 
 
 * Ezekiel Rogers. 
 Samuel Belcherus. 
 Jacobus Noyes. 
 Mofes Noyes. 
 
 1660. 
 
 * Simon Bradftreet Mr. 
 
 * Nathaniel Collins Mr. 
 
 * Samuel Eliotus Mr Socius. 
 
 * Guilielmus Whittingham. 
 
 * Jofephus Cookffius. 
 
 * Samuel Carterus. 
 
 * ManafTeh Armitagius. 
 
 * Petrus Bulklaeus Mr SoriUS. 
 
 1661. 
 
 * Johannes Bellingham Mr. 
 *NathanielChaunc£EusMr!3ocilt3 
 
 * Elnathan Chauncseus Mr. 
 Ifrael Chaunceeus Mr. 
 
 * Compenfantius Osborn 
 
 * Daniel Weld. 
 
 * Jofephus Cookseus. 
 Jofephus Whiting Mr SociuS. 
 Caleb Watfonus Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Parkerus. 
 
 * Thomas Johnfonus. 
 
 * Bezaleel Shermannus. 
 
 1663. 
 Johannes Holiokus. 
 Benjamin Thomfonus. 
 Solomon Stoddardus Mr Socius. 
 Mofes Fiskffius Mr. 
 Ephraim Savagius. 
 Thomas Oakes. 
 
 1663. 
 
 * Samuel Symondus. 
 Samuel Cobbet. 
 
 * Johannes Reynerus Mr. 
 
 * Benjamin Blackman. 
 
 * Thomas Mighil Mr. 
 
 * Nathaniel Cutler. 
 
 1664. 
 
 * Alexander Nowellus Mr. ^Sociua. 
 
 * Jofiah FlintiEus Mr. 
 
HAEVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 19 
 
 * Jofephus Pynchonus Mr. 6'ocius. 
 
 * Samuel Brackenburius Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Woodbridge 
 Jofephus EafterbrookcEus Mr. 
 Samuel Street. 
 
 1665. 
 
 * Benjamin Eliotus Mr. 
 Josephus Dudlasus Mr. 
 
 * Samuel Bishop. 
 
 * Edvardus Mitchelfonus. 
 Samuel Mannseus. 
 
 * Sperantius Athertonus. 
 Jabez Foxius Mr. 
 
 * Caleb Cheefchaumuk Indjis. 
 
 1666. 
 
 * Jofeph Brownffius Mr Sodus. 
 
 * Johannes Richardfonus Mr 00- 
 
 * Daniel Mafonus. (cius. 
 Johannes Filerus. 
 
 1667. 
 Johannes Harriman Mr. 
 
 * Nathaniel Atkinfonus. 
 
 * Johannes Fofterus. 
 Gerfhom Hobartus Mr. 
 
 * Japheth Hobartus. 
 Nehemiah Hobartus Mr 6otius. 
 Nicholaus Noyes. 
 
 1668. 
 Adamus Winthrop. 
 
 * Johannes Cullick. 
 Zecharias Whitmannus. 
 Abrahamus Pierfonus. 
 Johannes Prudden. 
 
 1669. 
 
 * Samuel Epps Mr. 
 Daniel Epps. 
 Jeremias Shepardus Mr. 
 Daniel Gookin Mr SocilTS. 
 Johannes Bridghamus Mr. 
 
 * Daniel Ruflellus. Mr. 
 
 * Jofephus Taylorus Mr. 
 Jacobus Bayley Mr. 
 Jofephus Gerrifh. 
 Samuel Treat Mr. 
 
 1670. 
 Nathaniel Higginfon Mr. 
 
 * Ammi Ruhamah Corlet Mr. So- 
 Thomas Clarke Mr. (ciU5. 
 
 * Georgius Burrough. 
 
 1671. 
 
 * Ifaacus Fofterus Mr QociUG 
 Samuel Phips Mr. 
 
 Samuel Sewall Mr. Sodus. 
 Samuel Matherus. 
 
 * Samuel Daiiforth Mr Sodus. 
 Petrus Thacherus Mr SoEins. 
 
 * Guilielmus Adamus Mr. 
 Thomas Weld Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Bowles Mr. 
 Johannes Nortonus. 
 Edvardus Taylorus. 
 
 1673. 
 
 1673. 
 Edvardus Pelhamus. 
 
 * Geoi-gius Alcock. 
 Samuel Angier Mr. 
 Johannes Wife Mr. 
 
 1674. 
 
 * Edmundus Davie AI.D. Padua. 
 
 * Thomas Sei-geant. 
 
 1675- 
 Jofephus Hauley. 
 Johannes Pike Mr. 
 Jonathan Ruflellus Mr. 
 
 * Petrus Oliverus Mr. 
 Samuel Andrew Mr 6odus. 
 Jacobus Minot. 
 Timotheus Woodbridge Mr. 
 
 * Daniel Allin Mr. 
 Johannes Emmerfonus Mr. 
 
 * Nathaniel Gookin Mr ^'odns. 
 
 1676. 
 
 * Thomas Shepardus Mr 
 Thomas Brattle Mr. 
 Jeremiah Cufliing. 
 
 1677. 
 Thomas Chevers Mr. 
 Johannes Danforth Mr. 5odU5. 
 Edvardus Payfon Mr. 
 Samuel Sweetman. 
 Jofephus Capen Mr. 
 
 * Thomas Scottow. 
 
 1678. 
 Johannes Cottonus Mr vSodlls. 
 Cottonus Matherus Mr. Sodus. 
 Grindallus Rawfonus Mr. 
 
 * Urianus Oakes. 
 
20 
 
 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 1679. 
 
 * Jonathan Danforth Mr. 
 
 * Edvardus Oakes Mr. 
 
 * Jacobus Ailing Mr. 
 Thomas Barnardus. 
 
 1680. 
 
 * Richardus Martin. 
 Johannes Leverettus Mr. SociUS. 
 Jacobus Oliver Mr. 
 Guilielmus Brattle Mr Socius 
 
 * Percivallus Green Mr. 
 
 1681. 
 
 * Samuel Mitchel Mr. 6"ciciU3. 
 Johannes Cottonus Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Hafting Air. 
 Noadiah Rufiellus Mr. 
 Jacobus Pierpont Mr. 
 Johannes Davie. 
 'Samuel Ruffellus Mr. 
 Guilielmus Denifon Mr." 
 Jofephus Eliot Mr. 
 
 1682. 
 
 1683. 
 Samuel Danforth Mr. 
 Johannes Williams Mr. 
 Guilielmus Williams Mr. 
 
 1684. 
 
 * Johannes Denifon Mr. 
 Johannes Rogerfius Mr. 
 Gordonius Saltonftall ]\Ir. 
 
 * Richardus Wenfleus. 
 Samuel Mylefius Mr. 
 Nehemiah Walterus Mr SociuS. 
 Jofephus Webb Mr. 
 Edvardus Thompfonus. 
 Benjamin Rolf Mr. 
 
 1685. 
 
 * Thomas Dudleeus Mr. 
 Warhamus Matherus Mr. 
 
 * Nathaniel Matherus Mr. 
 Roulandus Cottonus Mr. 
 Hem-icus Gibs Mr. 
 
 * Thomas Berrius Mr. 
 
 * Johannes Whiting Mr. 
 Edvardus Mills Mr. 
 Johannes Eliotiis Mr. 
 Samuel Shepardus. 
 
 * Petrus Ruck. 
 Ifaacus Greenwood. 
 
 Johannes White Mr 6"oriUS 
 Jonathan Pierpont Mr. 
 
 1686. 
 Francifcus Wainwright 
 Benjamin Lynde Mr 
 Daniel Rogeriius Mr 
 Georgius Phillipfius Mr 
 Robertus Hale 
 Carolus Chaunc^us Mr. 
 
 * Nicolaus Mortonus 
 
 16S7. 
 Johannes Davenport Mr 
 Johannes Clark Mr 
 Nathaniel Rogers Mr 
 
 * Jonathan Mitchel Mr 
 Daniel Brewer Mr 
 Timotheus Stevens Mr 
 
 * Nathaniel Welfh. 
 
 * Jofephus Daffet Mr 
 Henricus Newman Mr. 
 Joiias Dwight 
 Sethus Shove Mr 
 
 1 688 
 1689 
 
 * Jacobus Allen Mr 
 Samuel Moodey Mr 
 Guilielmus Payn Mr 
 Addingtonus Davenport 
 Johannes Haynes 
 
 * Guilielmus Partrigg. 
 Richardus Whittingham Mr. 
 Johannes Emmerfonus Mr 
 ybhannes Sparhawk Mr 
 
 * Benjamin Maiflon 
 Johannes Eveleth 
 
 * Benjamin Pierpont Mr 
 Johannes Hancock Mr 
 Thomas Swan Mr. 
 
 1690 
 Paulus Dudlseus Mr Socius 
 Samuel Matherus Mr 
 Johannes Willai'd Mr 
 
 * Daniel Denifon 
 Johannes Jonefius Mr 
 Jofephus Whiting Mr 
 Nathaniel Clap Mr 
 Jofephus Belcherus Mr 
 Nathaniel Stone 
 Johannes Clark Mr 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 21 
 
 Thomas Buckinghamus 
 Samuel Mensfield Mr 
 Petrus Burr Mr 
 
 * Johannes Selleck 
 Johannes Newmarch Mr 
 Thomas Greenwood Mr 
 Benjamin Wadsworth Mr SociUS 
 Thomas Ruggles Mr 
 Stephanug Mix Mr 
 Edmundus Gofte Mr 
 Nicholaus Lynde. 
 
 * Benjamin Eafterbrookaeus Mr 
 
 1 69 1 
 
 * Johannes Tyng Mr 
 Ebenezer Pemberton Mr SociUS 
 
 * Thomas Mackarty Mr 
 ybfephus Lord JSIr 
 Chriftopherus Tappan Mr 
 Samuel Emery Mr 
 
 * Thomas Atkinfonus 
 Timotheus Edwards Mr 
 
 1693 
 Benjamin Colman Mr 
 Zecharias Alden 
 Ebenezer White Mr 
 yacobus Townfend 
 Johannes Mors ]Mr 
 Caleb Cufhing Air 
 
 1693 
 Ifaacus Chavmc£eus Mr 
 Stephanus Buckinghamus 
 Henricus Flintajus Mr SociuS 
 Simon Bradflreet Mr 
 Johannes Wadteus Mr 
 Nathanael Hodfon 
 Penn Townfend 
 Nathanael Williams Air 
 Georgius Denifon 
 Johannes Woodward Air 
 ybfephus Baxter Air 
 Guilielmus Veazie 
 Nathanael Hunting Mr 
 Benjamin Ruggles Air 
 Guilielmus Grofvenor Air 
 
 1694 
 Adamus Winthrop Air 
 yohannes Woodbridge 
 Dudlasus Woodbridge 
 Eliphalet Adamus Air 
 
 yohannes Savage 
 ybhannes Ballantine Mr 
 Salmon Treat 
 yabez Fitch Mr 6"ociUS 
 
 1695 
 Samuel Vaffal 
 Gualterus Price Air 
 Richardus Saltonftall Air 
 A^xthaniel Saltonftall Air 
 yohannes Hubbard Air 
 Simon Willard Mr. 
 Habijah Savage Air 
 Oliver Noyes Air 
 Thomas Phips Air 
 Timotheus Lindal Air 
 Jonathan Law 
 Ezekiel Lewis Air 
 Thomas Blowers Air 
 Thomas Little 
 Ephraim Little Air 
 ybhannes Perkins Air 
 yedediah Andrews Air 
 Jofephus Smith 
 Johannes Robinfon Air 
 Jofephus Green Air 
 Jofephus Mors Air 
 Nicolaus Webfter 
 
 1696 
 Georgius Vaughan Mr 
 Roulandus Cottonus Mr 
 Petrus Thacher Mr 
 DudlcEus Woodbridge Mr 
 Jonathan Remington. Mr 
 Samuel Whitman Mr 
 Samuel Eafterbrookseus 
 Andreas Gardner Mr 
 Samuel Melyen Mr 
 
 1697. 
 Elifha Cooke Mr 
 Antonius Stoddardus 
 Antonius Stoddardus Mr 
 Jabez Wakeman 
 Nathaniel Collins 
 Samuel Burr Mr 
 Johannes Read 
 Samuel Moodey Mr 
 Richardus Brown 
 Hugo Adams 
 Johannes Swift Mr 
 
22 
 
 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 Johannes Southmayd 
 yofephus Coit 
 yofephus Parfonus Mr 
 
 1698 
 Thomas Symmes 
 yofias Cottonus 
 Samuel Matherus 
 ^ofias Willard 
 Dudlaeus Bradftreet 
 Petrus Cutler 
 Johannes Foxius 
 Nathanael Hubbard 
 Henricus Swan 
 Johannes White 
 yofias Torrey 
 Oxenbridge Thacherus 
 Richardus Billings. 
 
 1699 
 yeremias Dummer 
 Jonathan Belcher 
 Johannes Bulklaeus 
 Edmundus Quinfey 
 Johannes Taylor 
 Stephanus Horfmer 
 Daniel Greenleaf 
 Mofes Hale 
 Francifcus Goodhue 
 Nathanael Eels 
 
 Samuel Niles 
 yofephus Mofs 
 
 1700. 
 Johannes Winthrop 
 Simon Bradftreet 
 Daniel Hooker 
 yohannes Whiting 
 ^ofephus Gerrilh 
 yeremias Wife 
 Robertus Breck 
 David Deming 
 Samuel Hunt 
 Johannes Barnard 
 ybhannes Prentice 
 Thomas Banifter 
 Daniel Dodge 
 ybhannes Holman 
 Johannes Veazie 
 
 Illi quorum No- 
 minibus base No- 
 ta * Prefigitur, e 
 Vivis ceflerunt. 
 
 CANTABRIGI^ NO V-ANGL OR UM Tertio Quintilis. M D C C. 
 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 23 
 
 Triennial Catalogues after 1700. 
 "Whether the preceding were all the Catalogues which 
 were printed in the seventeenth century is uncertain. It is 
 not improbable that one was published regularly every three 
 years afterward, with the exception of the period from 1751 
 to 1758 ; during which, if any was issued, either that or the 
 one of 1758 must have been after an interval of four years. 
 There appears to have been one in 1712 ; for there is a 
 record of a question being then raised about inserting the 
 doctorate of divinity, which had been conferred on Cotton 
 Mather, two years before, by the University of Glasgow.* 
 A few years since, I found an excellent copy of the one for 
 1715, bound near the middle of a volume of the " Boston 
 News Letter " of that year, which is in the Library of the 
 Boston Athenaeum. Being of the same size as the newspaper, 
 it had till then escaped observation. The Library of Harvard 
 College now contains those which were issued as broadsides 
 in 1682, 1700, 1727, 1730 (a fragment), 1733, 1736, 1745, 
 1748, 1751, 1758, and all that have been printed subsequently. 
 The size, of course, increases with the accessions of gradu- 
 ates. In 1764 and 1767, the broadside consisted of two 
 sheets, pasted together, side by side. In 1770 the two 
 sheets were pasted one above the other, each sheet having 
 
 * "May 16. 1712. The Pres'. waited on his Excy. . . Upon the Presid'.' enquiring 
 concerning: the dutyfuU Letters that he had bin informed had bin written to his Excy 
 b}' JI'. C. M. He was pleased to assure him that he had never rec? a Letter from him, 
 Since the uudutieful One the s4 C. JI. had Sent him Anno Dom. 1707. 'Which was no 
 Small Surprize to tlie Presid'. and a further imbarassing his thots w"; respect to what 
 direction he sh"? think himself obliged to give as to Inserting the New Title he the said 
 C. M. hud lately reel from Glascow in the new Edition of the Catalogue of Griidiiate[s] 
 to be put out this year. And for what his Excy was pleased to Express upon that mat- 
 ter, the Presid'. finds a Necessity of Concerting the Bleasures to be taken upon y. 
 head with the Wise and grave. Bet Dtus £xitu, fellce. 
 
 "June 1712. Upon a further discourse w'.'' Ml Pemberton upon y'. Subject matter 
 above-written, the s'! JI"; Pemberton had a free conference with his Excy, from whom 
 he reported to the Presid'. , that he ^v^. not have the said presid'. to omitt the Inserting 
 the Title upon his Ace'. Upon the whole of All Consideratons the Presid'. Ordera the 
 Catalogue to be Printed with the Insertion of the Title added to y« Name of C. M." — 
 /. LevereWs MS. Diary. 
 
24 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 a distinct title, so far as to indicate the classes it contained. 
 The last broadside was issued in 1773. 
 
 Family Rank. 
 In all the Catalogues before 1773, the graduates in each 
 class are arranged according to their social position or family 
 rank. Judge Wingate,* when nearly ninety-two years old, 
 wrote to Mr. Librarian Peirce, 15 February, 1831, respecting 
 the "excitement" which " was generally called up whenever 
 a class in College was placed. . , . The scholars were often 
 enraged beyond bounds for their disappointment in their 
 place ; and it was some time before a class could be settled 
 down to an acquiescence in this allotment. The highest and 
 the lowest in the class was often ascertained more easily 
 (though sometimes not without difficulty) than the interme- 
 diate members of the class ; where there was room for un- 
 certainty whose claim was best, and where partiality no 
 doubt was sometimes indulged. But I must add, that although 
 the honor of a place in the class was chiefly ideal, yet there 
 were some substantial advantages. The higher part of the 
 class had generally the most influential friends ; and they 
 commonly had the best chambers in College assigned to them. 
 They had also a right to help themselves first at table in 
 
 * Paine Wingate, son of Paine Wingate, a graduate in 1723, was born 14 May, 1739, 
 at Amesbury, Mass., wiiere, for more than fifty years, his fatlier was a clergyman. 
 He graduated in 1759; was ordained at Hampton Falls, N.H., 14 December, 1763; was 
 dismissed in 1771; afterwards was a farmer at Stratham; member of the State Legisla- 
 ture; in 1789 a member of Congress under the Confederation; from 1789 to 1793, 
 United States Senator; from 1793 to 1795, Representative in Congress; and from 1798 
 till May, 1809, when he attained the age of 70, he was Judge of the Superior Court of 
 New Hampshire. He died 7 March, 1838, in his 99th year, having outlived all who 
 were members of College when he was there, all who were members of the U. S. 
 House of Representatives and of the Senate when he first took his seat, and all (except 
 Timothy Farrar, a graduate in 1767) who were members of the Court when he was ap- 
 pointed to the bench. After he was 91 years old, at the solicitation of Mr. Peirce, 
 who was prepiiring a History of Harvard University, he wrote several very interesting 
 and admirable letters, now before me, of which the extracts here given are specimens. 
 Portions of them are printed in Peirce's History. Judge Wingate married the Hon. Tim- 
 othy Pickering's sister, Eunice, with whom he lived in wedlock about three-quarters 
 of a century. She survived her husband, and died in 1843, at the age of 100. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 25 
 
 Commons; and, I believe, generally, wherever there was 
 occasional precedence allowed, it was very freely yielded to 
 the higher of the class, by those who were below." — " I think 
 that the government of the College, in my day, was a com- 
 plete aristocracy." 
 
 Again, he wrote, 2 March, 1831 : — 
 
 " The Freshman Class was, in my day at college, usually 
 placed (as it is termed) within six or nine months after their 
 admission. The official notice of this was given by having 
 their names written in a large German text, in a handsome 
 style, and placed in a conspicuous part of the College But- 
 tery, where the names of the four classes of Undergraduates 
 were kept suspended until they left College. If a scholar 
 was expelled, his name was taken from its place ; or, if he 
 was degraded (which was considered the next highest pun- 
 ishment to expulsion), at was moved accordingly. As soon 
 as the Freshmen were apprised of their places, each one 
 took his station, according to the new arrangement, 'at recita- 
 tion, and at Commons, and in the Chapel, and on all other 
 occasions. And this arrangement was never afterward 
 altered, either in College or in the Catalogue, however the 
 rank of their parents might be varied." 
 
 The importance attached to this scale, and the difficulty of 
 making it unexceptionable, sometimes elicited from the par- 
 ents communications, detailing reasons for precedence, which 
 would now be thought ludicrous. Bitter feelings were the 
 consequence ; and, when a student was degraded for ill-con- 
 duct, those who, for no misdemeanor, but merely because of 
 their humbler origin, were still left below him in the class, 
 were not likely to be heartily reconciled to their position. 
 An examination of the Catalogue reveals several instances 
 where there must have been degradations. 
 
 There is one well-authenticated instance, in which strenuous 
 and almost humiliating appeals, even after graduation, by one 
 who appears to have enjoyed the confidence and respect of 
 
26 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 such a man as Cotton Mather, and who afterward became a 
 clergyman, were persistently rejected ; and, to this day, his 
 name stands in the Triennial at the foot of his class.'^ In 
 
 * The following letter, found many years ago among the papers in the office of the 
 Secretary of the State of Massachusetts by Dr. Shurtleft', was read before the Society, 
 9 March, 1865, and accompanied by a communication, which may be found in the 
 Proceedings under that date. 
 
 " M"; Mather " Mat 19th Ano 1698 
 
 " Reverend S^ = 
 
 " After my Respects are paid to yo'. self & the Lady yo'. worthy 
 consort, this is come to inform you that I have not as yet finished yo'. booli, but intend 
 that, by y1 Last day of this week, (God willing) to put a conclusion thereunto. S'. I 
 hope you will not impute my tardy ness to any thing of unwillingness; but partly to 
 y. license you sent me, when you last sent y". Original, & partly to my intervening 
 business. Pray S'. be assured by this that I am not only willing & ready to serve 
 you as far as in me lies, but esteem it an honour to be in your service, wherefore S'. I 
 hope you will not decline yo'. Impos'ing it upon me, at any time when yo'. occasions 
 call for it. 
 
 " One favo^ , Worthy S'. ! I should be exceedingly rejoyced to obtain at yol benign 
 hands, if it may not engage yofself in a too great a trouble, which I will manifest after 
 I have p^mised, y^ towards y« End of o\ Sophymoreship by my audaciously calling 
 freshmen at y". doo^ of y^ Worthy M'. Brattle in a ^vfty of contempt, y= Venerable & 
 Reverend President with my Tutor, y" well deserving M'. Leverett saw it convenient 
 to place me y'. Lowest in yS class, whereas before I was placed between S'. Remington 
 & S^ Whitman. 
 
 "Now, S'. my humble request is (seing y" Catalogue bass not since been printed, & 
 is before y! Ensuing Commencem'. to be printed) that you would be pleas'd to motion 
 to y". Reverend President, that I may be reduced into my former station — Nothing 
 S^ can be more gratefull to my Father & Mother, nor any thing more encouraging to 
 me — I am very Sorry (& desire to be very penitent) that in that as well as in many 
 other things I have displeased so worthy a Gentleman as y'. President, & so kind a 
 Tutor as M'. Leverett w? y". Rev^ M'. Brattle, hoping that y°. remainder of my days 
 may be so manidg'd that glory may redown to God, & thereby some satisfaction may 
 be made for y« vvrffng I offer'd them — I lye at their feet & humbly beg their Pardon 
 (praying y". Lord to forgive me in & thro his son Jes: Christ) hoping they will 
 henceforth pretermitt y« offences of my former life, and grant me this favour, which 
 will much encourage me in my labour & lay me und'. fresh obligations to serve them & 
 yo'. noble self in any thing y'. I may or can — Had I, S'. ! been placed at first luferio'. 
 to y'. rest, I should have been contented & thought it my place, ( wherefore S'. 1 hope 
 you will not conjecture that pride is y Impulsive cause of this my Petition) but it 
 being after such a nature as it was, makes me verj' desirous of reducem'. — S'. All our 
 class y'. were placed at first beneath me, have voluntarily manifested unto me y'. they 
 were very willing I should Enjoy my Antient standing. Thus S'. hoping you will do 
 yo^ Endeavor & pardon my boldness, I shall at p^sent beg leave to conclude my self 
 yo! 
 
 " humble petitioner & hearty Servt 
 
 " Samuel Melten." 
 " These 
 To y. KeTer^ M'. Cotton Mather 
 
 with my hearty Respects " * 
 
 P'sent 
 P' Bishop Elliott " 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 27 
 
 another case, the only man in his class who gained a position 
 to entitle him to have his name in capital letters, Benjamin 
 Prat,* of 1737, Chief Justice of the Province of New York, 
 
 This Samuel Melyen was the son of Jacob Melyen, of New Haven, who removed to 
 Boston, where he was a leather-seller, and held the office of constable. Mr. Savage says 
 (" Genealogical Dictionary," iii. 196), " This son Samuel stands the lowest in the class, 
 being ninth in the modern catalogues; but, in the old catalogue of the " Magnalia," the 
 class contained but eight. I found at the State House a letter ... to Cotton Mather, 
 begging kis aid in restoring him to a higher rank; but the consequence was, that Ma- 
 ther had his cousin Roland Cotton inserted in the Catalogue as second next after Gov- 
 ernor Vaughan ; and poor Melyen took nothing but one peg lower by his motion. So that 
 he had shown greater discretion in keeping quiet than in asking the patronage of his 
 Boston friend." In 1700-1, Melyen taught the Hadley Grammar School one year for 
 i38. About the first of June, 1704, he was settled over the First Presbyterian Church 
 at Elizabethtown, N.J. There is a tradition that he was charged with, or strongly sus- 
 pected of, being intemperate; and that, not long afterward, the choir, soon after he 
 entered the meeting-house on a Sunday morning, sang a tune which he supposed was 
 intended for his instruction or admonition. He immediately left the pxilpit, and with 
 his wife walked out of the church, and never again entered it. 
 
 Very little importance is to be attached to tradition. If, however, there were any 
 foundation for the charge against Melyen, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the im- 
 portance attached to place in the class, and the deep humiliation which he felt at his 
 degradation, connected with the mortification that his application had not been success- 
 ful and that he could never be restored, had a tendency to produce discouragement, 
 and to bring about the result. He died in 1711; and his widow, in November, 1717. 
 
 A word as to what Melyen writes respecting the publication of a catalogue in 1698. 
 His letter seems to imply that none had been printed since 1693, at least: and the fact, 
 that there was an edition in 1700, renders it rather improbable that there was one also 
 in 1698, only two years before; though it is possible there may have been, and the one 
 in Mather's "Magnalia" may have been printed from it. I have never seen a copy of 
 a catalogue of 1698, or any allusion to one, except Melyen's 
 
 * Benjamin Prat, according to Eleazer Franklin Pratt's " Biographical Sketch of 
 Benjamin Prat," in manuscript, now before me, was grandson of the Phinehas Pratt, 
 who was instrumental in saving Weston's Company at Wessaguscus, or Weymouth, 
 and the colony at Plymouth, from being cut off by the Indians in 1623. His "Narra- 
 tive" is printed in the 34th volume of the "Collections of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society." In 1630 he married Mary, daughter of Degory Priest, whose wife, a sister 
 of Isaac AUerton, after her husband's death, married Cuthbert Cuthbertson. Pratt 
 removed to Charlestown, and in 1668 presented to the General Court a document, 
 stating that he "was the remainder of the forlorn hope of sixty men," that composed 
 Weston's Colony; that he was "almost frozen in time of our weak beginnings;" that 
 he was now lame ; and he asked for aid " that might be for his subs istance the remaining 
 time of his life." In his will he is denominated 'kjoyner." His son Aaron, who settled 
 at Cohasset, Mass., appears to have been a farmer. His second wife was the widow 
 . Sarah Cummings, from Woburn, whose maiden name was Wright. Their son, the grad- 
 uate, was born 13 March, 1710, in the part of Hingham then called Connohasset, which 
 is now incorporated as Cohasset. He fell from an apple-tree, and injured his leg so badly 
 that it was finally " taken off up to the hip, when he was aboutjiineteen years old, at 
 his father's house." He was fitted for college by the Rev. Nehemiah Hobart of Cohasset, 
 a graduate in 1714, who married this Prat's half-sister Elizabeth for his second wife. 
 
28 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 still stands at the bottom, where he was originally placed. 
 The class of 1773, which was the last on the last of the 
 broadside Triennials, was the first at Harvard College which 
 was arranged alphabetically, according to the surnames. Al- 
 though the aristocratic arrangement had been abolished at 
 Yale College in 1768, I suppose we can hardly conceive of 
 
 He entered the Junior Class. He was at Cambridge after graduating, and from 1742 to 
 1743 was College Librarian. For a short time, perhaps immediately after he took his 
 first degree, he " preached, or more probably instructed the Indians on the Islands in 
 Boston harbor." He read law with Judge Robert Auchmuty, and married his daughter 
 Isabella. He was an indefatigable student, and would be absorbed in books while he 
 was suffering such pain that large drops of sweat ran down his cheeks. He soon rose 
 to the first rank in his profession. His office in Boston was on the north side of King, 
 now State, Street, nearly opposite the pump which formerly stood a few yards east of 
 the east end of the Old State House. He owned, at Milton Hill, a country seat of about 
 one hundred and sixty acres, which descended to his daughter Isabella. 
 
 At one time he contemplated writing a History of New England, for which he had 
 admirable talents and rich materials; but he was prevented by the pressure of other 
 business, and by his increasing infirmities. He occasionally wrote poetry, which was 
 printed in the newspapers of the day. 
 
 From 1757 to 1759 he represented Boston in the Legislature. He was opposed to 
 Shirley in politics, and was a personal friend and supporter of Pownall. He was made 
 His Majesty's Advocate-General for Massachusetts. Through Pownall's influence, the 
 King, in 1761, appointed him Chief Justice of New York, and one of His Majesty's 
 Council of that Province. In graphically describing, for a painter, the scene in the 
 Council Chamber in Boston, where, soon afterward, the discussion was held as to 
 granting "writs of assistance," John Adams wrote: "In a corner of the room must 
 be placed, as a spectator and an auditor, wit, sense, imagination, genius, pathos, reason, 
 prudence, eloquence, learning, and immense reading, hanging by the shoulders on two 
 crutches, covered with a great cloth coat, in the person of Mr. Pratt, who had been 
 solicited on both sides, but would engage on neither; being, as Chief Justice of New 
 York, about to leave Boston for ever." 
 
 Prat went to New York, where he died 6 January, 1763, and was buried under the 
 chancel in Trinity Church. The " Boston News Letter " of 27 January, 1763, after 
 announcing his death, has "the following Lines dedicated to his Memory:" — 
 
 " With ardent love for ancient wisdom fired. 
 And with a genius Heaven alone inspired. 
 He rifled Rome of all its mighty store; 
 And, still athirst, to Athens went for more. 
 Both now exhausted, from the modern page. 
 Fraught with the sense of each preceding age. 
 He seized its treasures, made them all his own, 
 And "midst the sons of science greatly shone. 
 
 " In him, though science did its rays unite. 
 And shed around him a distinguished light, 
 'Twas but a second merit : virtue more 
 Adorned the man than all his learning's store. 
 
 " To heaven now sped, — beyond all mortal ken, — 
 He rivals angels as he rivalled men." 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 29 
 
 the effect which, coming from so important a source as Har- 
 vard College was then considered, this change must have 
 produced on the aristocracy, by stripping them of fondly 
 cherished distinctions ; and on others, by inspiring self- 
 respect, changing social relations, and advancing the spirit of 
 liberty and equality. 
 
 The Collection of Broadsides in Harvard College Library. 
 
 I am not aware of the existence of any other general or 
 Triennial Catalogues, published as broadsides, than those 
 which have been noticed. Some of those in the College 
 Library are mutilated and imperfect, or so worn that in some 
 places they are illegible. But, with all these imperfections, 
 the collection is undoubtedly the best which exists. It is the 
 result of diligent inquiry and search for many years. It has 
 already been of great value in the investigation of the lives 
 of Graduates, and has settled biographical questions which 
 could not otherwise have been put at rest. Different cata- 
 logues serve to identify a Graduate among several persons 
 bearing the same name, and to clear up the confusion of 
 fathers with sons. The prefixing of stars to the names in 
 the successive editions enables one commonly to ascertain, 
 within about three years, the time when a graduate probably 
 died, and thus limits the field of research. A contemporary 
 Triennial is also of assistance in putting one on the right 
 track of investigation, by giving the name as spelt or 
 pronounced at the time of graduation. Every broadside 
 Catalogue, or fragment of a broadside, which can be added 
 to the collection in Harvard College Library, will increase 
 its value, and be gratefully received. 
 
 Triennials in Octavo. 
 
 The earliest Harvard Triennial, in the octavo form with a 
 title-page, was printed at Boston " Typis Thomse & Johan- 
 nis Fleet, Academise Typographorum," in 1776 ; and it is 
 
30 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 noticeable, that this first octavo edition was published in the 
 first year of the Independence of the United States of 
 America ; or, as it is expressed on the titlepage, " MDCC- 
 LXXVI. Annoque Reipublicce AmericanEe prime." The Tri- 
 ennial, which then filled but thirty-two pages, has been 
 published every third year since ; and now, with its Index, 
 makes a volume of two hundred and thirty-four pages. 
 
 Since the formation of the Constitution of Massachusetts, in 
 1780, the names of ordained clergymen have been printed 
 in Italics. From that time, too, the institution was, on the 
 Catalogue, styled " Harvard University " in every edition till 
 1848, when it was thought by some that the titlepage was 
 wrong ; and the name of " Harvard College or University at 
 Cambridge " was adopted. In 1851, the old designation of 
 " Harvard University," which had been used for about 
 seventy years, was restored. It was continued in the edi- 
 tions of 1854 and 1857 ; but, in 1860, the title was again 
 changed to " Harvard College," which was not altered in the 
 edition of 1863. 
 
 Before the year 1791, no names of officers had been pre- 
 fixed to the list of Graduates. In the edition of that year, 
 the back of the title-page, which had previously been a blank, 
 was filled with the names of all who had been Presidents, and 
 with the names of the President, Fellows, and Treasurer at 
 that time, and of the six Professors. These were followed 
 by those of the four Tutors, with a specification of the 
 branches severally taught by them, to which was added 
 
 " Quorum unufquifque Claffem Rhetorica et Hifloria inftituit." 
 
 Then came these statements : — 
 
 " Bibliotheca 13000 volumina feledla continet. 
 " Conclave phyficum organis, ad experimenta phylica et obfeiva- 
 tiones aftronomicas exhibendum neceffariis, ampliffime eft ornatum." 
 
 This form and language, with the exception of the addition 
 of the Librarian's name, first inserted in 1794, and the omis- 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 31 
 
 sion of the words "■ Ehetorica et " in 1800, were continued 
 till 1806. 
 
 Changes and Improvements. 
 
 The names of all who had been Fellows, Professors, and 
 Tutors, from 1707, Treasurers from 1640, and Librarians 
 from 1766, were printed in the edition of 1806. Appended 
 to the list of " Socii," in this edition, was the note " Sociorum 
 Tutorumque Catalogum in editione proxime sequente perfec- 
 tiorem fore speratur ; " and 14,000 is substituted for 13,000 
 as the number of volumes in the Library. This preliminary 
 part makes five pages, instead of one. In the edition of 
 1812, it is stated, that the Library contains 15,000 volumes. 
 After this, all the notices which are now appropriately in- 
 serted in the Annual Catalogues were omitted. No important 
 changes, however, were made for nearly twenty-five years 
 after the publication of the edition of 1806. 
 
 In 1830 the Triennial was issued with substantial paper 
 covers. The pages were bordered with lines. At the bottom 
 of each of the classes, the number of the members was desig- 
 nated. The names of those who were not Alumni of Har- 
 vard College, but had been admitted ad eundem, or had there 
 received a medical, law, or honorary degree, instead of being 
 placed at the end of the class of contemporaneous graduates, 
 and separated from them by a line, and thus scattered through 
 the volume, were now put by themselves in appropriate divi- 
 sions, and arranged chronologically according to the years of 
 their degrees. 
 
 Indexes. 
 
 The most important improvement, however, in the edition 
 of 1830, and one that has been generally adopted by other 
 institutions, was the addition of the Index. Manuscript in- 
 dexes had previously been made by a few persons for their 
 own use. The College Library contains several of these ; 
 one of which, full bound in calf, has the following preface : — 
 
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 " To the honourable and reverend Board of Overseers of Harvard 
 College in Cambridge, N.E. 
 
 " The Original of the following Catalogue, was, at a very great 
 Expence of Time and Labour, prepared by me, in the year 1761, 
 in order for the more speedily finding the Names of our worthy 
 Ancestors, whose memory is precious to me beyond what Words 
 can express. — I have taken as fair a Copy of it, as my poor State of 
 Health, and Hands, would admit of; and the same is, with the utmost 
 Respect, presented to you for your acceptance, by your, once, for 
 many years, Brother ; but now 
 
 " hearty well Wisher and 
 most humble Servant 
 
 " Fra : Foxcroft.* " 
 
 " Camb. March 23? 1764. 
 
 " N.B. This Catalogue includes the Names of the Graduates 
 in 1763." 
 
 At the end we read, — 
 
 "Finished, on Friday, the 23? of March 1764." 
 
 At the beginning, President Holyoke has written, " The 
 Gift of the Hon'"'"; Fran: Foxcroft Esq^ to the Library of 
 Harvard College. 1764. May." 
 
 Additions were made to this Index, apparently in President 
 Holyoke's handwriting, which bring it down to the year 1767 
 inclusive ; so that it embraces in all two thousand and eighty- 
 nine names, or about one-fifth of the present number. 
 
 In an interleaved Triennial of William Winthrop is a man- 
 uscript Index, which appears to include the names of all 
 the graduates before the nineteenth century, and some which 
 are later. It is not unlikely, that Winthrop, in making it, 
 availed himself of Foxcroft's labors. 
 
 * Francis Foxcroft, son of Colonel Francis Foxcroft of Cambridge, whose wife was 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Deputy-Governor Danforth, was born 26 January, 1694; gradu- 
 ated iti 1712; and died at Cambridge, 28 March, 1768. He was for many years Regis- 
 ter of Probate for the County of Middlesex; was Clerk of the House of Representatives; 
 Uegister of Deeds forty-four years; one of His Majesty's Council twenty-six years; 
 and for thirty years a Judge on the Bench of the Superior Court. Most of these 
 offices he resigned. His life was one of sorrow and suffering. He lost ten children. 
 His temper was quick and almost uncontrollable in his excruciating paroxysms of 
 gout and pain; "but this was his burden and lamentation." 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 33 
 
 But the first Index which was printed was made by 
 Nathaniel Lord, jun., of Ipswich, a graduate in 1798. It was 
 published anonymously at Salem, and separate from the 
 Catalogue, in 1806, in fifty octavo pages. Mr. Lord's name, 
 as proprietor, appears in the copy-right certificate of the 
 Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. In the " Preface," 
 dated "Aug. 27, 1806," the Editor observes, "that great diffi- 
 culty appeared in ascertaining the true orthography of many 
 names. Generally speaking, difficult cases have been deter- 
 mined by a majority of the last ten editions of the official 
 catalogue, or other authority which appeared superior." 
 
 In 1807, this Index was followed by an "Appendix" of 
 corrections and additions, also published anonymously at 
 Salem, in octavo, before the Commencement ; the seventh or 
 last page containing the names of those who were to be 
 admitted as Bachelors of Arts in that year. In 1813, a 
 second edition was printed by Joseph T. Buckingham, of 
 Boston, in sixty octavo pages ; the sixteenth page being a 
 " Synopsis," giving the number of the different family names 
 of the graduates, beginning with each letter of the alphabet, 
 and the sum total of these names ; also, tinder the same 
 initial letters, the number of the clergy and of the laity, the 
 number of the dead and of the living, in each of these two 
 divisions, and the sum total of all the graduates. 
 
 The preparation and publication of these printed Indexes 
 seem to have been a private enterprise of Mr. Lord ; who 
 proposed, as he states in the first of them, " to extend the 
 plan so as to form an alphabetical catalogue of all who have 
 received any degree at any University or College in New 
 England," " should this work meet with sufficient encour- 
 agement." * 
 
 * The Hon. John Kelly, of Exeter, N.H., prepared "a manuscript catalogue of the 
 Graduates and others named in the Triennial Catalogues of all the New-England Col- 
 leges, with those of New Jersey and Union, from the time they were respectively 
 founded down to 1828." He obligingly put it into the hands of John Farmer, of Concord, 
 5 
 
34 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 The first introduction of the Index at the end of the Tri- 
 ennial, which was in 1830, and the other important improve- 
 ments made in the edition of that year, by our associate, 
 Charles Folsom, a graduate in 1813, gave to it a new char- 
 acter and interest. The features of this edition were con- 
 tinued till 1842, with the small changes of printing, in 1833, 
 in Roman instead of German type the surnames in the Index, 
 and of carrying back the list of Librarians, from 1766 to 
 1674, in the edition of 1839. 
 
 Thorough Revision. 
 Up to this time, I had not given any particular attention 
 to the Triennial Catalogues, further than sometimes to look 
 over the proof-sheets, and occasionally to transfer to the ' 
 printer's copy the stars, which were returned by various per- 
 sons, to designate the deaths. There was no responsible 
 editor. In anticipation of the edition of 1842, I was reluc- 
 tantly prevailed on, after repeated applications by our late 
 associate, Josiah Quincy, then at the head of the University, 
 to undertake the editorship, and to make a thorough revision 
 of the work. Accordingly, I examined all the Records of the 
 Corporation and of the Overseers, and corrected hundreds of 
 errors, which they revealed. Special pains was also taken to 
 afiix the dates, when they could be found, to all the honorary 
 as well as to the other degrees, whether conferred by Har- 
 
 N.H., who continued it to the year 1834, revised the whole, compared it with the latest 
 editions of the Triennials, and then published in "The American Quarterly Eegister," 
 vol. vii. pp. 93, 181, 289, 384, " A List of the Graduates, and those who have received 
 Degrees, at all of the New-England Colleges." This was followed, in vol. xi. pp. 145, 
 290, and 415, of the same work, by Mr. Farmer's " List of the Graduates, and those who 
 have received Degrees at the several Colleges in the States of New York and New 
 Jersey, from the foundation of each to 1834." The Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, of 
 Chelsea, Mass., then an undergraduate in Dartmouth College, published, in November, 
 1842, and February and May, 1843, in vol. xv. pp. 137, 276, and 446, of the same work, 
 '' A List of the Graduates, and those who have received Degrees at the several Colleges 
 in New England, New York, and New Jersey, from 1834, and at other Colleges in the 
 United States from their Foundation to 1841." So that by other hands Mr. Lord's pur- 
 pose has been Carried out more extensively than he contemplated. 
 
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 35 
 
 vard or by other Colleges. Particular attention was given to 
 the filling out of the middle names ; in doing which great 
 assistance was received from another of our members, Judge 
 James Gushing Merrill, of the class of 1807. 
 
 Obituary Dates. 
 With the edition of 1845 begins a new era in the history 
 of the Triennials. At the suggestion of Mr. Justice Joseph 
 Story, of the class of 1798, an effort was made to procure 
 and print the dates of the deaths. As the suggestion did not 
 lead to a determination till late in the season, there remained 
 but about ten weeks in which to collect all the information 
 and carry the work through the press. One of the first 
 points to be settled T^as the best mode of placing the dates 
 against the names. Several specimen pages of different 
 styles were put in type ; and, after much consideration, the 
 one particularly recommended by Mr. Folsom, and finally 
 adopted, was so satisfactory, that it has not been changed. 
 In order that the obituary dates of the early classes might be 
 inserted, it was also necessary to delay all the printing as long 
 as possible. The labor was much facilitated by the previous 
 researches of many members of this Society. Dr. Eliot, a 
 graduate in 1772, and Dr. Allen in 1802, in their Biographi- 
 cal Dictionaries ; Washburn in his " Judicial History of Mas- 
 sachusetts ; " Farmer in his " Genealogical Register ; " Ward 
 in his edition of " Curwen's Journal ; " Felt in his Histories 
 of Ipswich and Salem, — many of them Harvard Graduates, 
 and all of them members of this Society, — had provided 
 rich stores of materials. These, as well as the contributions 
 by members of the Society and others to the " American 
 Quarterly Register," together with town histories, files of 
 newspapers, and all other means of information which could 
 be turned to account within the limited time, were freely 
 used. The object was so far accomplished, that the Cata- 
 logue, with an " Advertisement," stating the facts, and asking 
 
36 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 for corrections and additions, was issued in due time, with 
 the obituary dates of more than three thousand, or about 
 three-fourths of all the deceased. The work was distributed 
 with many misgivings, considering the circumstances under 
 which it had been prepared, and was regarded as beginning 
 imperfectly what it was hoped future editions would present 
 with greater accuracy and completeness. It was found, how- 
 ever, to be as accurate as works of a similar character com- 
 monly are. The plan became popular ; and now it is gener- 
 ally adopted by other Colleges and literary institutions. 
 
 Interleaved Triennials. 
 
 In addition to the sources of information which have been 
 named, the results of the labors of four persons, who pre- 
 pared interleaved copies for their own use, were of such im- 
 portance as to deserve particular notice. 
 
 1. The Gilman Interleaved Triennial, the oldest interleaved 
 Catalogue of which I have any knowledge, contains manuscript 
 notes by the Rev. Nicholas Gilman, who was born at Exeter, 
 N.H., 18 January, 1707, graduated at Harvard College in 
 1724 ; was ordained at Durham, N.H., where he died 13 
 April, 1748, and was " borne in funeral procession by young 
 men of the town, — who requested the privilege of perform- 
 ing this service," — to be buried in the place of his nativity. 
 It is a broadside, of the edition of 1733, cut into columns, 
 and pasted on the left-hand margin of consecutive pages of 
 foolscap paper folded so as to make it a very small octavo. 
 There are twenty-nine of these pages, each a little less than 
 four inches wide, and a little more than six inches long ; thus 
 affording about as much room for manuscript notes as the 
 printed columns themselves occupy. At the end, three 
 pages of the same size are covered with additional notes. 
 Of course the memoranda extend no later than to the Gradu- 
 ates in 1733. They are very brief, and not always correct ; 
 but of some Graduates they furnish the only information 
 
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 which has been found. On the outside of the original paper 
 cover is written, " Nich? Gilman, 1737." Ujider it is, " NichV 
 Gilman, Exoniensis, Pastor Ecclesiee Dunelmice." On the 
 outside of the cover, at the end of the book when reversed, 
 is " Reuben Daniel, Octf 9, 1742. For London bound. Dur- 
 ham in New England." Below, in a diiferent hand-writing, 
 but in the same as on the first cover, is " Never reached 
 Durham ; " under which, repeated, is the line of Virgil, — 
 
 " Oh mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter aiinos! " 
 
 This copy, which is now bound, was not used in preparing 
 the edition of 1845, when the obituary dates were first in- 
 serted ; but it has been examined since. It was given .to the 
 Library of Harvard College, 20 July, 1846, by Mr. Folsom, 
 who is Mr. Oilman's great-grandson, 
 
 2. The Belknap Interleaved Triennial measures a little 
 more than seven inches by nine, and is half-bound in sheep, 
 the sides being covered with the peculiar marble paper in 
 common use nearly a century ago. Not long after the publi- 
 cation of the Triennial of 1845, it was sent to me by the late 
 John Belknap, Esq., of Boston, son of Jeremy Belknap, D.D., 
 of the class of 1762, who was one of the founders of this 
 Society. Subsequently, Mr. Belknap readily acceded to my 
 proposition to give it to the College Library, where it was 
 permanently placed, 3 September, 1846. The edition is of 
 1791, and contains the manuscript notes of the Historian of 
 New Hampshire. Commonly two quarto leaves of writing 
 paper alternate with the smaller-sized printed leaf. Dr. Bel- 
 knap seems to have had in view something more than notices 
 of the Graduates ; for, at the beginning, aire extracts from 
 " New England's First Fruits," Winthrop's " Journal," Ma- 
 ther's " Magnalia," and Hutchinson's " History," in relation 
 to th'e College. To the Doctor's memoranda are additions 
 by another hand, probably that of the Rev. Dr. John Eliot, 
 of Boston. 
 
38 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 3. The Wintlirop Interleaved Triennial, with its manuscript 
 Index, each page measuring about seven and a half inches by 
 nine and a half, is bound in half-sheep ; and the wearing 
 away of the paper on the sides, the soiled leaves, and the 
 worn edges, bear testimony to its great service. It was 
 lent to me while preparing the edition of the Triennial 
 of 1845 ; and subsequently, at my earnest solicitation, it was 
 given to the College Library by the heirs of the Compiler, 
 through the late Abraham Hilliard, Esq., his executor. With 
 the exception of very brief notices of " Settled Ministers 
 (in the first Parish) in Cambridge," which are on the inside 
 of the first cover, the manuscript memoranda pertain to the 
 Graduates. The titlepage is dated 1794 ; but Classes were 
 subsequently added till the publication of the edition of 
 1812. The Catalogues were cut into single columns, and 
 pasted on the extreme left of consecutive pages, leaving no 
 margin either at the top or the bottom, or on the left-hand 
 side. Of course the only room for memoranda is the single 
 line continued from the right of the name across the page. 
 There is much interlineation, made at difierent times with 
 ink of different shades ; and it is not always easy at first to 
 disentangle it, and decide to what individuals the notices 
 belong. As the names of ordained clergymen became Itali- 
 cized in successive editions, they were cut out and very 
 neatly pasted over the names which were originally printed 
 in Roman letters. A copy of the manuscript notes in this 
 Triennial, made many years ago for the Massachusetts His- 
 torical Society, is in the Library. The Library also contains 
 various letters to Winthrop, respecting the Graduates, as well 
 as memoranda by him ; which Mr. Hilliard told me he lent to 
 our early co-adjutor, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D., of Cam- 
 bridge, who brought them to our Library, where they were 
 when Dr. Holmes died. The pioneer of American geneal- 
 ogists, John Farmer, and others, often refer to this Winthrop 
 Triennial, which contains the results of the labors of William 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 89 
 
 "Winthrop of Cambridge, a graduate in 1770, who died in 
 1825, and was a member of this Society. 
 
 4. The Pierce Interleaved Triennials begin with the edition 
 of 1791, which was published when the Rev. Dr. Pierce was 
 an Undergraduate, and end with the one issued in 1848, the 
 year before he died. On the first of these is " John Pierce," 
 written in the vigorous hand of his early years ; to which, in 
 the uncertain hand induced by disease, were added, a short 
 time before his death, the words, " leaves this Catalogue to 
 be used by the Rev. John L. Sibley so long as he shall desire 
 it, and then to be lodged in the Library of the Mass. His. 
 Soc^." Dr. Pierce wrote words of the same import on each 
 of his other nineteen Triennials. During this period of more 
 than half a century, he was continually recording facts. His 
 enthusiasm, his very extensive acquaintance, and the cordi- 
 ality with which he was everywhere and at all times wel- 
 •comed, enabled him to procure more information respecting 
 Graduates than could probablj: have been obtained by any of 
 his contemporaries. Though bis manuscript " Diary," in eigh- 
 teen volumes, which was bequeathed to the Society, contains 
 an accumulation of facts, there is much to be gathered from 
 the condensed statements in these twenty Triennials, some of 
 which were always at hand, and were oftener consulted than 
 his almanacs. 
 
 The edition of 1791 contains no manuscript memoranda, 
 but stars prefixed to the names of those who died before the 
 next one was issued in 1794. On the latter, he wrote, " Na- 
 tive Places ; " and against most of the names, he recorded 
 the places where the Graduates were born, or where they 
 had their homes when they entered College. This plan he 
 continued in each succeeding Triennial, for each of the three 
 additional Classes, even after the necessity was superseded 
 by the publication of the Annual Catalogues. 
 
 The copy on which he spent the most labor was the inter- 
 leaved one of 1806. The facts recorded in this ai'e frequently 
 
40 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 repeated in his other Catalogues, in words somewhat differ- 
 ent; and, when he noticed the death of a Graduate in a later 
 edition, he sometimes gave more details. But, in the one of 
 1806, he was in the habit of making memoranda respecting 
 all whose names it contained. The importance he attached 
 to it is apparent from the great satisfaction with which, more 
 than once, he remarked to me, that Dr. Sprague of Albany- 
 considered the manuscript information so valuable that he 
 had it all copied. 
 
 Results of the Edition of 1845. 
 
 The time of the publication of the Triennial of 1845 — 
 for the improvements in which we owe so much to the inter- 
 leaved copies which have been noticed, as well as to other 
 sources — was favorable for the change then made. Aged 
 Graduates were living, who could give information extending 
 back to the middle of the eighteenth century. There were 
 young men whose tastes lay in that direction, and who 
 were prompted, by its new features, to render assistance. A 
 few years later, and the aged would have been gone, and 
 Avith them a large portion of the information which has been 
 secured ; and the tastes of these young men might have taken 
 a different turn. 
 
 From that time to this, there has been a generous co- 
 operation by many besides Graduates in communicating obit- 
 uary dates and other memoranda respecting their ancestors, 
 and other relatives and friends. The dates of the deaths of 
 some of the three or four hundred, which seemed to defy 
 research, mysteriously come up to be inserted in each new 
 edition. An unprecedented interest has been awakened in 
 what at first appears to be little else than a list of names. 
 An importance is attached to the Triennial which was not 
 wont to be attributed to it. The addition of the Index and 
 of the Obituary Dates has made it a suggestive document. It 
 has led to inquiries and researches respecting the lives and 
 fortunes of the Alumni. 
 
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 I hardly need say, that one of our associates has felt a new 
 interest ; and, by his vigilance and industry, has not only con- 
 tributed materially to the correctness of the succeeding editions 
 of the Triennial, but has honored himself, the University, 
 and this Society, by the succession of Necrologies, which, for 
 several years, have appeared on Commencement moi'nings in 
 the " Boston Daily Advertiser," doing justice to those who 
 were well known, and preserving many worthy and modest 
 graduates from undeserved oblivion* Other persons have 
 been prompted to collect, for preservation, biographical mate- 
 rials, which, in the hands of our successors, if not in our day, 
 "will be made useful. 
 
 Distribution of the Copies. 
 In the mean time, the Catalogues have always been ready 
 for distribution on the Commencement days when they were 
 due. The number printed in 1863 was two thousand five 
 hundred ; and one copy was given to each person whose 
 name appeared in it, and who applied for it. Previously, 
 back to a time not recorded, the edition consisted of three 
 thousand copies ; and, several years ago, each Graduate was 
 entitled to three copies. 
 
 Late Editions. 
 In 1851, for the first time, a separate list of the names of 
 those who had completed their course of study in the Divin- 
 ity School was added to the Catalogue, on the ground, that, 
 though they received no degrees, — which was the reason 
 why the names were not previously inserted, — they were as 
 much entitled to a place there as Graduates of the other 
 Schools of the University. As most of this class become 
 
 * Since these "Notices" were read before tlie Society, the Necrologies have been 
 collected and printed in an octavo volume, -with the title, " Necrology of Alumni at 
 Harvard College, 1851-52 to 1862-63. By Joseph Palmer, of the Class of 1820." 
 
42 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 ordained ministers, their names have never been printed in 
 Italics, except in the Index. 
 
 In 1854, upon the suggestion and encouragement of Charles 
 Sanders, of the class of 1802, a list of the College Stewards 
 was added. 
 
 The editions of 1860 and 1863 contained the following 
 
 "Appeal to Graduates and Others. 
 
 " For several years, eiforts have been made to collect materials for 
 a biographical dictionary of Harvard College graduates. Of some, 
 it has not been possible to ascertain even the place and time of their 
 birth and death ; and, of others, there is absolutely nothing known 
 but the name on the Triennial Catalogue. In many cases I have 
 not been able to learn if there are any descendants or relatives to 
 whom application can be made for information. In order that just- 
 ice may be done, as far as possible, to all, and to obtain materials 
 for a full biographical sketch of every Graduate, I take the liberty, 
 respectfully, but urgently, to reiterate my appeal to the Graduates, 
 and other friends of the College, for answers to the accompanying 
 questions respecting ancestors or relatives whose names may be on 
 the Triennial, or any Graduate who may ever have lived in the towns 
 where they reside : — 
 
 1. Name of the Graduate. 
 
 2. His father's occupation and name, with his mother's and her 
 
 parents' names. 
 
 3. Place, year, month, and day of the Graduate's birth. 
 
 4. Residences, occupations, journeys, and incidents before entering 
 
 College, with their respective dates. 
 
 5. What first led him to think of going to College. 
 
 6. Places of study and teachers before entering College, with the 
 
 dates. 
 
 7. When admitted to College. 
 
 8. Struggles in getting an education. 
 
 9. Incidents, tastes, and habits in College, with College prizes, 
 
 honors, class appointments, &c. 
 10. Occupations and residences from the time of graduating, with 
 the dates. 
 
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 11. If he studied a profession, Avliere, when, and with whom; if a 
 
 clergyman, of what denomination, when and where settled ; if 
 a lawyer, when and where admitted to the bar. 
 
 12. All offices, honors, and titles, with the dates ; all societies of 
 
 which he was a member. 
 
 13. If married, when, to whom ; the names of the wife's parents in 
 
 full; and the place, time, &c., of her death, if deceased. If 
 married more than once, the same information in regard to 
 succeeding marriages. 
 
 14. Disease of which he died, with the circumstances, place, and 
 
 day of his death. 
 
 15. Travels, incidents, hereditary tendencies, peculiarities, tastes, 
 
 and particularly anecdotes illustrative of his habits and course 
 of life, or which will give interest to a biographical sketch. 
 
 16. A full and exact title of every book or pamphlet written or 
 
 edited, with notices of manuscripts left by him. 
 
 17. Genealogical details of his ancestors and descendants. 
 
 18. Obituaries, eulogies, or funeral sermons respecting him. 
 
 " It is not supposed that all these questions are pertinent to every 
 Graduate, or that there is any case in which all of them can be 
 answered ; but it will be gratifying to receive a reply, though it be in 
 answer to only one of the questions, and relating to but one person. 
 At the same time, no communication, though it should cover many 
 pages, can be too long or too minute. 
 
 " It is also very important in all cases to have the Christian and 
 middle names written in full, and to have as many dates as possible. 
 The dates, in addition to the year, should always contain the month, 
 and the day of the month, whenever they can be ascertained. 
 
 " The value of the communications will depend on their accuracy. 
 The sources from which much of the desired information may be 
 derived are town, church, probate, and family records, deeds, news- 
 papers, interleaved almanacs, manuscript diaries, and inscriptions on 
 gravestones and monuments. 
 
 " Answers from Graduates in relation to themselves are respectfully 
 solicited, as they are more likely to be full and correct than if given 
 by others after their decease. 
 
 " I may add that I am desirous of obtaining the Triennials pub- 
 lished before the year 1800, and particularly any one published on 
 sheets before the year 1776, as the addition of the stars to the sue- 
 
44 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OF , 
 
 cessive editions commonly furnishes an approximation to the dates 
 of the deaths, 
 
 " It is important that the communications be received as early as 
 practicable. They may be addressed to John Langdon Siblet, 
 Librarian of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass." * 
 
 * This " Appesil," and the statements which have been already made, are, to some 
 extent, an answer to the inquiry as to what means have been taken, particularly by 
 myself, to collect and preserve materials for biographical sketches of the Harvard 
 Graduates. A brief communication on this subject, which I was requested to prepare, 
 was printed, in 1855, in the "Memories of Youth and Manhood. By Sidney Willard." 
 
 The information in the Records of the Corporation, of the Overseers, and of the 
 College Faculty, respecting graduates before 1732, is marvellously meagre and unsatis- 
 factory. From that year, with the exception of a considerable part of President 
 Kirkland's administration, the Faculty Records purport to contain the ages of the 
 Students, and the places of their residence when they entered College. The dates of 
 the births begin with the class which was graduated in 1741. At first, these statistics 
 were incorporated with the regular proceedings of the Faculty. They cease to be 
 found there after the year 1817, with the exception of those for the class of 1824, 
 which was admitted in 1820. In 1823, a separate book was made, in which, on being 
 admitted, the students wrote their names, and "respectively engaged and promised 
 to observe and conform to the laws and regulations made for the government of the 
 students of Harvard College" No memoranda were made but of the "Names of 
 Parent or Guardian " till the " Residence " was affixed to those who were admitted in 
 1826. In 1830, President Quincy resumed the old custom of recording the age and the 
 birthday; to which was added, in 1831, "By whom offered." This form continued, 
 without essential modifications, till 1860. In that year, at the request of President 
 Felton, I planned a blank-book to give more definiteness to some of the statistics. 
 These are now recorded in a tabular form, and embrace the name in full, with the 
 year, month, and day of birth, and of admission, together with the age on the day of 
 admission; the place of birth, as well as the present residence; the class to which the 
 student is admitted; the name of the person who offered him for examination ; the 
 names of his father and mother, and of his guardian, if he has any. 
 
 From these and other sources, I began, many yeai-s ago, to insert, in a tabular form, 
 in a large volume, ruled and bound for the purpose, and admitting of continuations, the 
 most important dates and events in the lives of the Graduates; and the book now 
 contains more collected information, probably, than any other work of the kind. 
 
 But little attention was given to preparing and distributing, for corrections and 
 additions, interleaved Triennials before President Quincy's administration. The manu- 
 script additions of the honors received, and of stars to the names of those who had 
 died, -which was all the information required for a new edition, could be made on the 
 common margins. A few interleaved copies were sent out; and a few were prepared 
 by individuals for their own convenience. The manuscript memoranda, returned in 
 those which were distributed in 1839, were transferred to one of these copies when the 
 edition of 1842 was prepared for the press. From that time to this, on the publica- 
 tion of each new edition, ten or twelve substantially bound interleaved copies, to be 
 returned in the April or May before the issuing of the next edition, have been dis- 
 tributed to persons interested in the subject; and the information thus gained has been 
 transferred, for preservation, to one of the copies, as in 1842. In these copies, with 
 the exception of what is derived from catalogues of other institutions, are commonly 
 
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 This " Appeal " was the result of careful thought, and was 
 intended to be so comprehensive, and at the same time so 
 
 recorded the authorities for all the changes which have been made, even to the omission 
 or addition of a letter in a name. 
 
 Beginning with the year 1842, I have received what now makes a large collection 
 of letters, memoranda, &c., relating to Graduates ; and they are chronologically arranged 
 and preserved, with a view to their being ultimately bound. 
 
 I have also been making a collection, from newspapers, of biographical sketches, 
 obituaries, and notices of appointments to office, and other honors, to be arranged and 
 hound in the order of the graduation of the individuals mentioned. This collection is 
 already large; but the number of newsp i|)ers which falls under the eye of one person is 
 comparatively small : and it is to be regretted that Graduates do not forward for preser- 
 vation such notices as they meet with ; for this would throw much light on the his- 
 tory of the University. 
 
 I have examined with much care nearly seventy thousand pamphlets, and probably 
 more than twenty thousand volumes, in the College Library, omitting biographical 
 dictionaries, local histories, and other kindred works of reference, since these would 
 naturally be consulted in searching for biographical information; and have indexed 
 the allusions which they contain to Graduates. 
 
 In the year 1849, I began to solicit interviews with all the members of the several 
 classes as they were successively graduating; and most of them willingly communicated 
 to me, viva, voce, the prominent incidents in their lives, and allowed me to jot them 
 down. The value of such a record was commonly acknowledged ; and by perseve- 
 rance, and the co-operation of individuals who were interested in such subjects, much 
 useful information was collected, which, at the time being deemed of little conse- 
 quence by those who gave it, would otherwise have been lost. The topics to which 
 attention was directed were the places and dates of their birth; their parents; their 
 paternal and maternal ancestors; the schools and academies where they studied; 
 teachers by whom they were fitted for College, and the time of their admission; their 
 vocations or trades; voyages and travels; places and seasons of teaching schools; the 
 books or pamphlets which they had written; striking incidents and accidents; favorite 
 pursuits, predilections, &c. As these and similar topics were successively introduced, 
 each one was left to reply or not, as he chose; and no record was made of any thing 
 to which he objected. All were requested to be communicative, to any extent they 
 pleased, beyond the topics suggested. By some, the information given was quite 
 limited, their lives being very uneventful. The details of others were so various, the 
 "pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" was so peculiar, and the experience so 
 strange, that there might be made a volume of selections which, at times, would 
 border on romance. The details, with a view to secure accuracy, after being written 
 down, were often read to the individuals, or by them; and they conferred the additional 
 favor of putting to them their signatures. This course was pursued till the classes 
 became so large, and my duties as Librarian of the Universit}'- so pressing, that time 
 could not be found to continue them properly. I have, however, been able occasion- 
 ally to make similar memoranda in relation to Graduates of long standing; and, in 
 these cases, the sketches are carried forward so as to embrace their professions, various 
 residences, honors, family relations, publications, &o. In connection with these, I have 
 examined extensive files of newspapei's and other works in the libraries in Boston, 
 Worcester, and New York, and transcribed from them such portions as were not 
 easily to be found elsewhere. Sometimes I have copied manuscript letters which 
 have fallen under my observation. These " Manuscript Collectious respecting Ear- 
 
46 TEIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 minute, as to cover every thing which could be said respect- 
 ing any Graduate. It has not elicited so many replies as 
 could be reasonably expected. 
 
 vard College Graduates, consisting of Verbal Communications, Copies of Manuscript 
 Letters, and Extracts from Newspapers and other Periodicals," already fill nearly 
 seven hundred very closely written pages, each having a generous margin for the 
 binding. Of their value we can judge by the importance we should attach to such a 
 collection, covering the entire period of the history of the College. 
 
 To make all these materials available, a Triennial of the edition of 1848 was pre- 
 pared, with six blank leaves for each printed leaf. In this I have made an Index of all 
 the references to Graduates found in my examination of the works in the College Library, 
 of all allusions to Graduates in my private letters and memoranda, and newspaper cut- 
 tings, and in the " Manuscript Collections," above mentioned. In addition to all these, 
 the Index contains references to Graduates in numerous files of newspapers. Thus it 
 is easy to recur at once to all the sources of information respecting Graduates which I 
 have, or which I know of. 
 
 Of these collections and references I have availed myself to write extended bio- 
 graphical sketches of the Graduates during the first twenty years of the eighteenth 
 century, and, at this date (June, 1865), of about fifty-four years of the preceding cen- 
 tury. As soon as those for the intervening years (1696-1700) are written, and all are 
 carefully revised, it will be reasonable to consider the expediency of beginning to print 
 them. Increasing age admonishes me that I can work up but a small part of these mate- 
 rials; and that what remains, together with the "Index," the making of which, con- 
 tinued through more than fifteen years, has alreadj' cost me more time and labor than 
 all the rest, will contribute more than can well be appreciated to lighten the labors of 
 others who may come after me, by pointing at once to extensive sources of informa- 
 tion, which 1 shall continue industriously to enlarge as heretofore. 
 
 I think the present system of Class-Books, or Historical Records, originated with 
 the Class of 1827; though, of late years, some of the earlier classes have procured 
 Class-Books, and recorded in them such information as could be collected. In order 
 that there may be uniformity in the volumes, a pattern for the style of the ruling and 
 the size of the paper is now kept by the College Librarian. The election of Senior- 
 Class Officers is made shortly before, or immediately after, each Winter vacation. Of 
 late years, as the classes are so large that there would not be sufficient time for all the 
 members to prepare and copy their lives into a bound volume, the Class Secretary 
 frequently procures the paper, and has it stitched into portions, each containing three 
 or four sheets, according to the number of pages allowed to each individual. Com- 
 monly two names, following each other alphabetically, are put into each of the por- 
 tions. These sheets are then distributed among the members of the class, each of 
 whom writes an account of his life, and returns the sheets to the Class Secretary 
 about the time of the Spring Recess, near the end of May. The sheets are then bound. 
 With them are often bound manuscript copies of the Oration, Poem, Ode, Order of 
 Exercises, &c., on Class Day ; to which is sometimes added information in relation to 
 the general history of the class. 
 
 The writers commonly make their biographical sketches before they have much 
 experience in this kind of composition; and I am informed there are instances in 
 which they have subsequently become so dissatisfied, that they have removed them 
 from the books. Since I was obliged, in 1856, to abandon the practice of making notes 
 myself, I have had an interview with each class secretary, soon after his election, and 
 
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 47 
 
 I have now noticed all the important changes and improve- 
 ments in the Triennial Catalogue. During the quarter of a 
 century, in which I have edited it eight times, — a longer 
 period, perhaps, than any other person has had charge of it, — 
 the " Numerus Integer" has been increased from 6,311 to 
 10,155, and the number of pages from 133 to 234. "Without 
 counting the additions to be made since the last edition was 
 issued in 1863, I have prefixed stars to 1,120, or nearly one- 
 fourth of the 4,761 Alumni wno have died since the first Class 
 was graduated in the year 1642. 
 
 Connection of the University with the Historical Society. 
 
 In preparing these " Notices," I have been forcibly struck 
 with one fact which never occurred to me before, and which 
 makes the subject particularly appropriate for our considera- 
 
 given to him a series of questions, as a basis on which the members of the class might 
 ■write their lives in a narrative form. These questions, with some modifications, have 
 generally been circulated; and, within a few years, they have been regularly printed 
 for distribution at the same time with the stitched sheets. The questions relate partic- 
 ularly to facts and dates, and have served to keep the writers, in some measure, from 
 indefinite and unsatisfactory generalities. Tlie Class-Books are left with the Class 
 Secretaries, whose duty it is, after graduation, to continue the record, so far as practi- 
 cable; and each member is expected to keep him intimately acquainted with his own 
 personal history. When the last survivors of a class pass away, the Class-Book is to 
 become the property of the Library of Harvard University. 
 
 Occasionally a wise provision has been made by a class, that, for private distribu- 
 tion among themselves, a few copies of biographical sketches of each of the members 
 shall be printed regularly at intervals of two, three, or five years; preference being 
 given to the year when the Triennial Catalogue is isSued. 
 
 Nearly all the members of the class of 1852 placed their daguerreotypes in the 
 College Library. For each of the succeeding classes, there is a volume of photographs, 
 not restricted to the persons who graduate, but often including persons who have been 
 members of the class, College officers, and others employed at the College at the time, 
 as well as views of the buildings from different points, and of scenery in Cambridge. 
 A set of the photographs is commonly presented by the photographer, and bound by 
 the class. Already thej' are beginning to be instructive by suggesting the changes of 
 costume since the first were taken, and by showing the progress made in the art of 
 photography. The series, if continued, will become one of the most interesting objects 
 at the University. Copies of the pictures, at the time of their being taken, are multi- 
 plied at small cost; and hardly any one graduates without carrying away a set of 
 photographs of his classmates. 
 
 Thus I have answered, perhaps too minutelyj the question which led to the intro- 
 duction of this note. 
 
48 TRIENNIAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 tion. Almost every important change in the Triennial has 
 been made or suggested by some one whose name is on our 
 list of members, so that its history for a century is intimately 
 connected with the historical researches of persons who have 
 been members of the Society. Perhaps it may be said, that 
 more has been done for the history of the College, directly 
 and indirectly, by members of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society, than by all the Graduates who have not been mem- 
 bers of it ; and of the Graduates, who, since this Society was 
 chartered, have contributed bountifully to literature and his- 
 tory, how few there are whose names are not on our roll ! 
 So far as there is a similarity of purpose, the two institutions 
 have co-operated in the work for which this Society was 
 particularly incorporated. ThjB aim of both has been for a 
 high elevation, from which to look at truth, and develop in 
 the loftiest spirit whatever illustrates history and kindred 
 topics ; without the question, or even the thought, whether 
 in so doing the one or the other is the most successful. 
 The history of the Triennial is identified both with Harvard 
 College and with the Massachusetts Historical Society. 
 
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 Remarks. 
 The preceding " Analysis " contains a complete list of all 
 the editions of the Annual Catalogues which I have begn 
 able to collect during a long period of diligent inquiry and 
 research. For many years, the different editions have not 
 been prepared by resetting the types, but by printing from 
 types left standing ; such alterations and additions being 
 made as were necessary. 
 
 Annual Sheet Catalogues. 
 
 1803. The first printed Annual Catalogue was a broadside, 
 issued at "Cambridge October, 1803," with the title, — "A 
 Catalogue of the Members of Harvard University Cam- 
 bridge." It contained no names whatever, except those of 
 the Students. Over these stood the names of the Classes to 
 which they respectively belonged. The " Senior Class " was 
 placed in two columns over the " Junior Class ; " and the 
 " Sophomore Class," in the same way, over the " Freshman 
 Class." The Places of residence were printed, but not the 
 Rooms. A dagger (f) was prefixed to several of the names ; 
 and at the bottom of the sheet was a note, stating that 
 " f Those with this mark prefixed to their Names, have left 
 College." The practice of enrolling persons whose connec- 
 tion with the College was terminated, has long been discon- 
 tinued. President Quincy opposed the inserting of the name 
 of any one who did " not answer at roll-call." 
 
 1804. The title was changed to " Catalogue of the Mem- 
 bers of Harvard College, Cambridge." Each class occupied 
 a column extending from the top to the bottom of the sheet. 
 The Booms were inserted in columns between the Names and 
 Places of residence. A star was prefixed to the name of 
 Joseph Barker of the Sophomore Class, from Marblehead. 
 At the bottom of the sheet was " Cambridge, October, 1804." 
 " Note. H. for Hollis Hall, M. Massachusetts Hall, C. H. Col- 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 63 
 
 lege House. * Dead, f Those with this mark have left 
 College." 
 
 C.H., or " College House," sometimes called " Wiswall's 
 Den," stood near the south side of the present junction of 
 Church Street with Harvard Square ; but it projected further 
 upon the Square than the present " College House." Church 
 Street was not then opened. 
 
 1805. The names of the Classes were printed in Old Eng- 
 lish instead of Roman letters. The columns designating 
 Rooms and Places of residence were transposed. " Stough- 
 ton Hall," now first occupied, was called " New Hall." For 
 the first time there is a summary of the students. It is put 
 under the Freshman Class. " Cambridge, October, 1805. . . . 
 [ W. HiUiard, Printer."* The sheet is surrounded by a fancy 
 border. 
 
 1806, October. " New Hall " takes the name " Stoughton 
 Hall." 
 
 1808, October. The classes are designated as " Senior 
 Sophisters,"" Junior Sophisters," "Sophomores," and "Fresh- 
 men." 
 
 1809, October. " Rev. Samuel Webber, D.D. President." 
 This is the first edition in which the names of the President, 
 
 * There is nothing to show by whom the previous, and some of the subsequent, 
 editions were printed ; but " W. Hilliard, Printer," appears on the Catalogues of 1805, 
 1806, and 1807. In 1809, 1811, 1812, and 1816, the imprint was '• Hilliard and Metcalf, 
 printers." From 1819 to 1825 it was " University Press — Hilliard and Metcalf; " and, 
 in 1826 and 1827, " University Press — Hilliard, Metcalf, and Co." From 1828 to 1831, 
 it was " Published by Hilliard and Brown." In 1832 and 1833, the word " Published " 
 was omitted, and the names are " Brown, Shattuck, and Company; " for which, in 1834, 
 is substituted "Charles Folsora, Printer to the University." In 1835, the imprint was 
 "Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, Booksellers to the University. Boston: 
 134 Washington Street;" and in 1836, "Cambridge Press: Metcalf, Torry, and Bal- 
 lon." From 1837 to 1840, it was " Folsom, Wells, and Thurston;" in 1841, " Thomas 
 G. Wells;" in 1842 and 1843, "Metcalf, Keith, and Nichols;" and from 1844 to 
 1850-51 (Second Term), " Metcalf and Company," — all from 1837 being designated as 
 "Printers," or "Printer," "to the University." From 1851 to 1858-59 (First Term), 
 it was "John Bartlett, Bookseller to the University;" and, since that time, it has been 
 " Sever and Francis, Booksellers to the University." The word " Cambridge " appears 
 from 1803 to 1808; and, with the exception of "a new edition" printed in Boston in 
 1835, it is on all the catalogues from 1819 to the present time. 
 
54 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 Professors, Tutors, Librarian, Regent, and Proctors are 
 printed. The title is changed to " Catalogue of the Officers 
 and Students of Harvard University, Cambridge." The 
 names of the classes are printed in lower-case type. 
 
 1810, October, " Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, D.D. 
 LL.D. President." 
 
 1811, October. Resident Graduates, are introduced. At 
 first, these were mostly, if not entirely, students in divini- 
 ty.* Subsequently the list included those who had com- 
 pleted their theological course, and were candidates for 
 settlement in the ministry. In the " Analysis," when the 
 Candidates and Students are not distinguished in the Cata- 
 logue, they are placed with Divinity Students ; when the 
 Candidates are distinguished, they are classed with Resident 
 Graduates. 
 
 1816, October. The names of the Classes are printed in 
 black-letter. 
 
 1817, October. The " Rooms " of the " Resident Gradu- 
 ates," and " 2 C.H. 2d College House, and 3 C.H. 3d College 
 House," are for the first time printed. The Second College 
 House stood on or near the spot now occupied by the Stew- 
 ard's Office and the Charles-River Bank in the lower story 
 of the south end of what was once " Graduates' Hall," but is 
 now called " College House." The Third College House was 
 on the east corner of Dunster and Harvard Streets. It does 
 not appear on the Catalogues after 1823 being afterward 
 
 * Although there were probably, from the infancy of the College, Graduates or 
 others residing in Cambridge for the purpose of studying divinity, there have been but 
 two separate catalogues of the Divinity Students. The first, of eight octavo pages, 
 dated August 10, 1836, issued by Professor John Gorham Palfrey, D.D., was somewhat 
 of the nature of a Circular or letter, giving and soliciting information. The names of 
 the Students who had joined the School were arranged under the years of their 
 admission. The other catalogue was prepai-ed by the writer of these "Notices," and 
 published in July, 1844. The names were placed under the years when the Students 
 finished their studies at the School. To these were added some items of information 
 as to the places of birth, graduation, and settlement; changes of occupation; resi- 
 dences, deaths, &c. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 55 
 
 again used for a private dwelling-house, and for other pur- 
 poses. " 2 C.H." disappears in 1835. " C.H." was taken 
 down in 1844, and disappears in the Second-Term' Catalogue 
 of 1844-45. It M'as purchased by the College in 1774. 
 
 1818, October. Title changed to " Catalogue of the Offi- 
 cers and Students of the University at Cambridge." The 
 names and residences of " Students attending Medical Lec- 
 tures, 1817-18," are printed. 
 
 This was the last of the broadside, or sheet. Annual Cata- 
 logues.* 
 
 Annual Catalogues in Octavo. 
 
 1819, October. The first Annual Catalogue printed in an 
 octavo form ; stitched, and issued without covers. Page 1, 
 the title ; viz., " Catalogue of the Officers and Students of 
 the University in Cambridge ; " 2, " Abbreviations " for the 
 names of the buildings occupied; 3, "Members of the Cor- 
 poration;" 4 and 5, "Officers of Instruction and Govern- 
 ment ; " 6, " Candidates for the Ministry, and Theological 
 Students. iE^ The Candidates are designated by Italic 
 characters." The list also occupies a part of page 7, on 
 which are also "Law Students" and " Resident Medical Stu- 
 dents;" 8 and 9, "Students attending Medical Lectures, 
 1818-19," with their "Residence;" 10 to 16, "Undergrad- 
 uates," arranged according to Classes. The heading " Resi- 
 dent Graduates " is omitted. 
 
 1820, October. " Overseers " first introduced ; being placed 
 on the page following that containing the " Corporation." 
 At the end of the Catalogue are four pages, which can be 
 detached and distributed as Circulars. They contain the 
 
 * In the "Analysis" is given the number who attended the last course of Medical 
 Lectures which had been delivered previously to the printing of the Catalogue; so 
 that, except in the Second Term Catalogues, the medical students are those who attended 
 the Medical Lectures nearly a year before. Separate Annual Catalogues of the Medi- 
 cal School have commonly been issued ; but, as no one appears to have taken enough 
 interest in them to save a file, the editions cannot be designated. 
 
56 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 " Course of Instruction for Undergraduates in Harvard Col- 
 lege, October, 1820, for the ensuing Year." This appears to 
 have been the initiatory step towards printing the general 
 information which now occupies an important portion of the 
 Catalogues ; though every thing of the kind was occasionally 
 omitted after this. 
 
 1823. The Vacations, Commencements, and Exhibitions 
 are now first mentioned.'* 
 
 1824. The last octavo edition. 
 
 * The following notices are taken from the different Annual Catalogues in which 
 they first appear, — 
 
 1823. Commencement on the last Wednesday in August. Vacations four weeks 
 and two days from Commencement; seven weeks from the fourth Friday in Decem- 
 ber; and two weeks from the third Friday in May. 
 
 " Any student may have leave to spend the annual Thanksgiving with his friends 
 from Wednesday next preceding, after the morning exercise, till the Saturday next 
 following." At this time, there were always recitations before breakfast. " The 
 Seniors may retire from College the seventh Tuesday before Commencement."' 
 
 1825. Vacations two weeks from the Wednesday preceding the twenty-fifth day of 
 December; two weeks from the first Wednesday in April; and the six weeks next 
 preceding Commencement. 
 
 1838-9. Commencement on the fourth Wednesday in August. Two Terms in- 
 stead of three. The First Term, of twenty weeks, begins on the following Friday, and 
 is succeeded by a vacation of six weeks, which is followed by another Term of twenty 
 weeks, after which is vacation till the Frida}' succeeding Commencement. 
 
 1848-49. Commencement on the third Wednesday of July; thus preceding instead 
 of following the Summer vacation of six weeks. 
 
 1849-50. From Tuesday evening till Saturday evening of the week in which is the 
 last Wednesday in May, and also in Thanksgiving week, there are Recesses, which, in 
 1851-52, were extended till Sunday evening. 
 
 1865. While these "Notices" are passing through the Press (June, 1865), the 
 following changes are made. "■ The academical year is divided into two Terms of 
 twenty weeks each, separated by a vacation of four weeks, the Second Term ending on 
 Commencement Day, which is the third Wednesday of July"; and "the Scientific 
 School shall hold two sessions of twenty weeks each, separated by a vacation of one 
 week, the Second Term ending a fortnight before Commencement." The two Recesses 
 will end on Monday morning instead of Sunday evening. 
 
 1823. Public Exhibitions in the Chapel of University Hall were held on the last 
 Tuesdays in October and April, and on the Thursday preceding Commencement, 
 beginning at eleven o'clock, a.m.; and, in 1825, on the third Tuesday of October, and 
 tlie last day of the Second and Third Terms. From that time to the present, there 
 has always been an Exhibition on the third Tuesday of October. Besides this, the 
 Annual Catalogue in 1826 announces Exhibitions on the second and last Tuesdays of 
 the Third Term; in 1829, on the second Tuesday and last Monday of the Third 
 Term; in 1838-9, on the first Tuesday of May, and last Wednesday of the Second 
 Term; and, in 1848-49, on the first Tuesday of May; there being in that and each 
 succeeding year but two Exhibitions instead of three. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 57 
 
 Annual Catalogues in Duodecimo, 
 
 1825, October. The duodecimo form, with covers, was now 
 first adopted, and is still continued. After the "Overseers" 
 appear, for the first time, " Directors of the Theological 
 School," who are discontinued in the Catalogue of 1831-2; 
 the Theological School having then been put on a similar 
 footing with the other Professional Schools. The word "Offi- 
 cers " is substituted for " Officers of Instruction and Govern- 
 ment." Candidates for the Ministry and Theological Students 
 are subdivided into " Candidates," " Senior Class," " Middle 
 Class," and " Junior Class." This is the first Catalogue in 
 which " Candidates " are separated by a distinct heading 
 from the " Theological Students," and the first in which the 
 latter are arranged in Classes. 
 
 The last six pages of the Catalogue are an " Appendix," in 
 which it is announced, that " The stated time of examination 
 for the Freshman Class is the Friday next after Commence- 
 ment. Those who are necessarily prevented from ofi'ering 
 themselves at that time may be examined at the beginning 
 of the First Term."* 
 
 * The second edition of 1825 says, they may be examined " in the second week of 
 the First Term ; " and both editions state, that " Persons may be admitted to advanced 
 standing, or from any other College, at any part of the College course previous to the 
 Second Terra of the Senior Year." In 1826, the time for examination was on the 
 Monday of Commencement week, and on Friday of the same weels for those who 
 are necessarily delayed. In 1830-31: First Thursday of the Summer vacation, and on 
 the Friday of Commencement week, for those who are necessarily delayed; to which, 
 in 1834-5, is added, " No person will be examined for admission to College at any 
 other time than at the close or commencement ot a Term, except in extraordinary 
 cases." In 1836-7: " On the Monday and Tuesday of Commencement week, beginning 
 precisely at six o'clock, A.M." From this date, the examination has occupied two 
 days. In 1842-3: "No person will be examined for admission to the College at any 
 other time than the commencement of a Term, except in extraordinary cases." In 
 1848-49: Examinations on Friday and Saturday of Commencement week. In 1849-50: 
 Monday and Tuesday of Commencement week. In 1853-54: For advanced standing, 
 on the following Friday. Other examinations for admission are at the beginning of the 
 First and the Second Terms ; and " No person will be examined for admission to College 
 at any other time than those above specified." In 1854-55: To begin at eight o'clock 
 instead of six o'clock, a.m. ; — a great improvement, when it is considered that the 
 
58 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 Another announcement is, that " the University is open to 
 persons who are not candidates for a degree, and who desire 
 to study in particular departments only : provided that such 
 persons have a good moral character ; that their previous 
 acquisitions be such as are now demanded of Students before 
 admission, so far as the studies proposed to be pursued shall 
 require ; and that they be subject to all the laws of the Uni- 
 versity, in regard to diligence and good conduct;" to which 
 was added, in the following year, the words " and College 
 discipline." This announcement opened the way for those 
 who were denominated " Students not Candidates for a 
 Degreej'^and, subsequently, " University Students;" of whom 
 there were some till the establishment of the " Scientific 
 School." 
 
 The " Appendix " also contains the following estimate of 
 necessary expenses for a year, included in the College bills : — 
 
 " Steward and Commons, including board for 42 weeks, at 
 
 $1.75 per week $83 50 
 
 Instruction for the two first years, $46 ; for the third and 
 
 fourth, $64 ; average 55 00 
 
 Rent of room 12 00 
 
 Library 3 00 
 
 Text-Books 12 50 
 
 Expenses of public rooms, repairs, catalogues, &k. ... 10 00 
 
 $176 
 
 " Other necessary expenses must vary with the economy of each 
 individual. 
 
 Examination began on Monday morning; ttiat, in Old Cambridge, then, as now, there 
 was no public house ; and that candidates were commonly obliged to pass the two pre- 
 ceding nights, and the intervening Lord's Day, in Boston, from which there were then 
 no means of regular conveyance to enable them to arrive at Cambridge so early as 
 six o'clock. The present arrangement is substantially the same. In 1860-1, the rule, 
 now in force, was adopted, that no examinations for admission should be made later 
 than the beginning of the First Term of the Academic Year; nor later, for advanced 
 standing, than the beginning of the First Term of the Senior Year. 
 
HARVAED UNIVERSITY, 59 
 
 "The price of wood furnished by the University is $7 per cord; 
 a room in a private house, from $30 to |45 a year ; washing, from 
 $3 to $5 a quarter. 
 
 " College uniform Coat . $15 to $25 
 
 Pantaloons 4 " 8 
 
 Vest 3 " 5 
 
 Outside Coat 15 " 25 
 
 " The Students find their own beds and furniture. Board, in 
 town, has been of late from $2 to $3 a week." * 
 
 1826, September. " D." for Divinity Hall, first occupied 
 after Commencement in this year. For " Officers " are sub- 
 stituted " Members of the Faculty and other Officers ; " and 
 this is the first mention of what is now known as the " Facul- 
 ty," or the " College Faculty." — "Resident Graduates" appear 
 as a separate class, and are placed immediately before " Un- 
 dergraduates." 
 
 " The regular Grymuastick exercises, when the Superinten- 
 dent of the Gymnasium is present, are on Wednesday and 
 
 * The amount of the College Bills was- 
 
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 In 1830, with board at $1.75 . . $179.00 
 
 In 1847-48 f2d Term), 
 
 
 „ 1834, 
 
 „ „ „ 1.90 . . 185.30 
 
 with board at. .$2.50 . 
 
 . $204.00 
 
 „ 1836, 
 
 „ „ 2.25 . . 199.50 
 
 or 2.00 . 
 
 .. 184.00 
 
 „ 1838, 
 
 „ „ 2.25 . . 195.00 
 
 „ 1849, with board at 2.50 . 
 
 . 204.00 
 
 „ 1840, 
 
 „ „ „ 2.25 . . 194.00 
 
 „ 1853, „ „ „ 3.00 . 
 
 . 224.00 
 
 
 or 1.75 . . 174.00 
 
 „ 1854, „ ,, ., • 3.50 . 
 
 . 249.00 
 
 
 
 „ 186.3, „ „ „ 4.00 . 
 
 . 273.00 
 
 
 
 „ 1864, „ „ „ 6.00 . 
 
 . 390.00 
 
 In 1864, the tuition, including gymnastic exercises, was raised to $104; and there 
 was an advance in the average of rents. These statements, taken from the Annual 
 Catalogues, do not include the extremes of what may be the actual expenses; for, 
 while some students live in luxury, and exceed these amounts, others study economy, 
 and live for less. 
 
 Commons were discontinued in July, 1849, — at the end of the Academic Year, 
 1848-49. At that time, there were about fifty boarders in Commons. The other stu- 
 dents preferred to board in private houses. The College Corporation thought it advisa- 
 ble, under the circumstances, to abolish the Institution, which had been continued 
 from the first establishment of the College in 1636. 
 
60 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OP 
 
 Friday,* from 12 to 1 o'clock; or when the length of the day 
 admits, after evening Commons. On Monday, the Monitors 
 and Vice-Monitors meet separately with the Superintendent 
 to prepare for the general exercises." At the end are two 
 pages of " Rules of the Gymnasium of Harvard University." 
 The Superintendent was Charles Follen, who had been ap- 
 pointed " Instructor in German, and Lecturer on the Civil 
 Law," and was afterwards Professor of the German Language 
 and Literature in the University. Various kinds of appara- 
 tus, as bars, a " gallows," a mast sixty feet high, &c., were 
 fitted up on the highest part of the College Delta, or Play- 
 Ground. Apparatus was also fitted up in the room in Uni- 
 versity Hall once occupied for Commons by Freshmen, and 
 designated by Nos. 13 and 14. 
 
 Another announcement in the Catalogue of 1826 is, that 
 " Military exercises are allowed on Tuesday and Thursday, 
 from 12 to 1 o'clock, or after evening Commons ; with music 
 not oftener than every other time, and liberty of a parade on 
 the afternoon of Exhibition Day." At the noon or evening 
 drills, there came a fifer and a drummer from Boston, or, more 
 frequently, from the Castle in the harbor ; and the interdic- 
 tion of music, " oftener than every other time," was probably 
 on account of College expenses, which were then loudly 
 complained of, as they always have been since the College 
 was founded. A band of music was hired for Exhibition-Day 
 
 * On the other secular da3's of the week, Dr. Follen, for some time, gave instruc- 
 tion in Gj-mnastic exercises, and in the German language, in Boston. There is no 
 mention of Gj'mnastic exercises in editions later than that of 1827-8, till 1859. In 
 1858, Professor Huntington had collected subscriptions to a considerable amount for 
 this object, when a graduate offered to build and furnish the edifice, at a cost of eight 
 thousand dollars. The offer was accompanied with the condition, that the benefactor's 
 name should not be known during his lifetime. An octagonal building, eighty feet in 
 diameter, was begun in March, 1859, completed in July, and opened for use in Septem- 
 ber. Mr. Aaron Molineaux Hewlett, from Worcester, and previously from Long 
 Island, experienced, athletic, gentlemanly, and careful, and carrying in his veins the 
 blood of the African, the Indian, the Yankee, and the Frenchman, was appointed 
 Curator. From that time to this, the exercises have been conducted with interest and 
 success, and have contributed essentially to the vigor and health of the members of the 
 University. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 61 
 
 parades. There is no mention of military exercises in the 
 Catalogues after the autumn of 1833.'^ 
 
 1827-8. The first double-dated catalogue. Title changed 
 to " A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard 
 University." The position of the " Law Students," and of 
 the " Students attending Medical Lectures," is interchanged ; 
 and these departments appear for the first time as " Medical 
 School " and " Law School," with the names of the " Members 
 of the Faculty " of each. 
 
 1828-9. Presidency vacant. 
 
 1829-30. "Hon. Josiah Quincy, LL.D." President. A 
 division, denominated " College Faculty," is inserted after 
 "Members of the Faculty, and other Officers." "Candidates 
 for the Ministry," but no " Resident Graduates." At the end 
 of " Theological Students " are " Theological Students who 
 are not members of the regular Classes." — " Law Students " 
 subdivided into " Senior Class " and " Junior Class ; " and 
 their " Residence," as well as " Rooms," given. 
 
 1830-31. " Candidates for the Ministry " discontinued. 
 " Residence " of Theological Students first printed. " Law 
 
 * The company was called the "Harvard Washington Corps." It was organized 
 in 1811; and George Thacher, of the class of 1812, was the first Captain. A good 
 account of it is contained in the valuable work by Benjamin Homer Hall, of the class of 
 1851, entitled "A Collection of College AVords and Customs." Mr. Hall also gives an 
 account of a military company which was organized about the year 1769, of wliich the 
 first Captain was William Wetmore, of the class of 1770. The motto was "Tarn 
 Marti quam Mercurio;" and the Company was called the " Marti-Mercurian Band." 
 The last captain, it is believed, was Solomon Vose, of the class of 1787. The venera- 
 ble Royall Morse, who, from a familiar intercourse with the students for more than 
 eighty years, knows more than any other person respecting the unrecorded incidents 
 of the College, remembers the company in Vose's day. The uniform was a thi-ee- 
 cornered cocked hat; long blue coat, opening at the lower part in front, with white 
 facings, knee breeches; white stockings, extending up to the knees; and black gaiters, 
 extending about half as high. He says he recollects, that, as with the militia generally 
 at that time, it was customary, after the company was dismissed, to pass round three 
 or four buckets of toddy. 
 
 It is a subject of much regret, that the Records of these military companies, which, 
 it is said, were kept with great care and minuteness, and which, like those of other 
 College organizations and societies, should have been placed for preservation in the 
 College Library, have been lost. A sketch of them would make an interesting chapter 
 in the history of the University. 
 
62 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 School " placed before the " Medical School." * " Resident 
 Graduates " inserted after " Medical Students." The list of 
 Resident Graduates comprises only those who are Candidates 
 for the ministry. This list is followed by the " College Facul- 
 ty," which is followed by anotherBoard called the " Parietal 
 Committee," consisting of College Officers living in the Col- 
 lege buildings, who are to take cognizance of small oifences, 
 while the greater offences are to be acted upon by the " Col- 
 lege Faculty." 
 
 1831-2. "Divinity School" and "Divinity Students" 
 substituted for " Theological School " and " Theological Stu- 
 dents." — "Law Students" divided into ".Senior Class," "Mid- 
 dle Class," and " Junior Class," instead of being in two 
 classes. 
 
 1832-3. " Gr. H.," and, at a later period, " G.," appears 
 for " Graduates' Hall," the name given to the brick block on 
 the west side of Harvard Square ; and which, after its exten- 
 sion on the north end, in 1860, took the name of " College 
 House," from the circumstance that it occupied ground on 
 which the College houses, No. 1 and No. 2, formerly stood. 
 Of the " Resident Graduates," the eight " whose names are 
 printed in Italics are Resident Graduates of the Divinity 
 School." 
 
 1833-4. The " Resident Graduates," being Candidates 
 for settlement in the ministry, are all printed in Italics. The 
 last pages of this and of the preceding two Catalogues, and 
 of the one for 1835-6, are filled with advertisements of the 
 booksellers to the University. 
 
 1834-5. Two of the " Resident Graduates " in Italics. 
 The distinction by Italics is from this time discontinued. 
 
 f The arrangement of the Professional Schools in the different Catalogues seems, in 
 some degree, to have been according to' convenience in filling out blank spaces. 
 Strictly speaking, it should be according to the seniority of the schools; but the Medi- 
 cal School being in Boston, and the students seldom coming to Cambridge, or having 
 much connection with the Institution there, it is placed after the other schools. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 63 
 
 1835-6. The Annual Catalogues, from an early date, per- 
 haps from the first, were prepared by the member of the 
 Senior Class who had been Regent's Freshman, or had per- 
 formed his duties. The copies of the octavo editions were 
 sold for six cents and a quarter each, and the profits were 
 considered his perquisite. . This mode of editing the Cata- 
 logues was probably discontinued soon after President Quincy 
 came into office. With the information which was added 
 year after year, the cost had been increasing, till the charge 
 became twelve cents and a half. The students, not wishing 
 to pay for the preparation of the additional information, it is 
 said, circulated a subscription paper ; and, as soon as this 
 edition was issued, procured " A New Edition, Revised and , 
 Corrected. Boston : Printed for the Students by John Ford. 
 Mechanics' Hall. . . . Wilson's Lane." From that time to the 
 present, single copies have been retailed for six cents and a 
 quarter, or for six cents when the six-and-a-quarter cent silver 
 pieces have passed for only five cents ; and the booksellers 
 in Cambridge have procured them for five dollars a hundred. 
 This has been on an average about half the cost of making 
 •them; though, for the first edition of 1864-65, the cost was 
 seventeen cents and three-quarters apiece. 
 
 1842-43. In the Second Term, the first separate cata- 
 logue of the Law School was published.* 
 
 Triennial Catalogues of the Law School were published in 
 1836, 1839, 1842, 1845, 1848, 1851, and a Septennial in 1858 ; 
 purporting to contain the names of all wlio had ever been 
 members of the school, but distinguishing those who had 
 received the degree of LL.B. The Catalogue of 1858 was 
 entitled " Catalogue of the Students in the Law School of the 
 University at Cambridge ; " all the others were " A Catalogue 
 of the Students of Law in Harvard University." 
 
 * It is not probable that a complete file of the Term Catalogues of the Law School 
 can be procured. The following is the best collection I have been able to make. 
 They were commonly printed near the end of the College Terms, so that the " Total " 
 
64 
 
 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 1843-44. " The laws of the University allow, after the 
 Freshman year, to the Parents or Guardians of Undergradu- 
 ates a selection in respect of certain specified studies. ... No 
 student is allowed to select or have assigned to him more 
 elective studies, than will occupy, with the required studies, 
 in Recitation and Lectures, every week, twenty-one hours." 
 In accordance with this, the Catalogue contains a statement 
 of the " Required Studies " and " Elective Studies." — " Natu- 
 ral History '' and the French language had sometimes been 
 Elective Studies previously. 
 
 1844-45. The first year in which an Annual Catalogue 
 was printed for the Second Term. 
 
 1845-46. " Rev. James Walker, D.D., President pro tem." 
 Second Term, " Hon. Edward Everett, LL.D.," President. 
 
 1846-47. The expression " Harvard University," on the 
 titlepage and elsewhere, is changed to " University at Cam- 
 bridge ; " and the name of HARVARD, the Founder of the 
 Institution, does not once appear in the Catalogue. In the 
 Second Term, the " Residences " of the " Officers of Instruc- 
 tion and Government " are printed for the first time. After 
 " Medical Students " comes " Scientific School," with the 
 
 frequently differs from that in the "Analysis," above given. The first two are entitled 
 " A Catalogue of the Faculty and Students of the Law School of Harvard University;" 
 the others, " A Catalogue of the Law School of the University at Cambridge: " — 
 
 
 
 
 NO. OF 
 
 PROBABLE 
 
 
 
 
 NO. OP 
 
 PROBABLE 
 
 DATE. 
 
 PAGES. 
 
 TEEM 
 
 STU- 
 DENTS. 
 
 OP COPIES. 
 
 DATE. 
 
 PAGES. 
 
 TEEM. 
 
 STU- 
 DENTS. 
 
 NDMBER 
 OF COPIES. 
 
 1842-43 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 104 
 
 
 1855-56 
 
 2fi 
 
 
 118 
 
 3,000 
 
 1843-44 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 115 
 
 
 1856-57 
 
 26 
 
 
 124 
 
 2,300 
 
 1848-49 
 
 24 
 
 2 
 
 91 
 
 3,000 
 
 1857-58 
 
 28 
 
 
 119 
 
 3,500 
 
 1849-50 
 
 24 
 
 
 103 
 
 5,000 
 
 1857-58 
 
 28 
 
 1* 
 
 127 
 
 600 
 
 1850-51 
 
 28 
 
 
 103 
 
 3,000 
 
 1858-59 
 
 28 
 
 
 127 
 
 3,000 
 
 1850-51 
 
 28 
 
 
 100 
 
 2,000 
 
 1859 
 
 34 
 
 
 175 
 
 750 
 
 1851-52 
 
 28 
 
 
 111, 
 
 1,000 
 
 1860 
 
 34 
 
 
 164 
 
 
 1551-52 
 
 28 
 
 1* 
 
 111 
 
 
 1861 
 
 32 
 
 
 113 
 
 1,500 
 
 1852-53 
 
 32 
 
 
 133 
 
 6,500 
 
 1862 
 
 30 
 
 
 92 
 
 1,250 
 
 1853-54 
 
 28 
 
 
 158 
 
 9,000 
 
 1863-64 
 
 34 
 
 2 
 
 114 
 
 1,000 
 
 1854-55 
 
 28 
 
 
 146 
 
 6,000 
 
 1864-65 
 
 30 
 
 2 
 
 131 
 
 1,000 
 
 Second edition. 
 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 65 
 
 names of its " Faculty;" and on page 59 are some statements 
 respecting it, and an announcement, that " the courses of 
 instruction in the Scientific School are intended to com- 
 mence with the next academic year (Aug. 27th, 1847)." 
 
 The second edition of the Second Term may be distin- 
 guished from the preceding by critically comparing the titles 
 of the Overseers. 
 
 1847-48. After the " Faculty of the Scientific School " 
 are " Special Students in Chemistry." This may be consid- 
 ered as the beginning of the Scientific School. After the 
 First Term, the designation " University Students " ceases ; 
 this class of students probably being from this time attached 
 to the Scientific School; which, in the Second Term, takes 
 the name, " Lawrence Scientific School." * 
 
 1848-49. First Index to the Catalogue. 
 
 1849-50. "Jared Sparks, LL.D.," President. The words 
 " University at Cambridge," on the titlepage, changed to 
 "Harvard College." — "Committees of Examination" first 
 printed in the Annual Catalogues. 
 
 1850-51. The first Annual Catalogue edited by the wri- 
 ter of these " Notices," who has edited all which have since 
 been published. All titles of " Hon." and " Rev." stricken 
 from the " Officers of Instruction and Government ; " and, in 
 the succeeding year, from the " Corporation " and " Over- 
 seers." Between the "College Faculty" and "Undergrad- 
 uates" are introduced the names of the " Parietal Committee," 
 which were never printed but once before. " Tabular View 
 of the Hours of Recitations and Lectures " first introduced. 
 Instead of " Senior Sophisters," "Junior Sophisters," " Soph- 
 omores," and "Freshmen," are substituted "Senior Class," 
 "Junior Class," "Sophomore Class," and "Freshman Class." 
 
 * In 1850-51, First Term, was printed " A Catalogue of the Officers and Students 
 of the Lawrence Scientific School in Harvard University;" and another in 1851-52. 
 Each had twelve pages, 12mo. No other Catalogues of the Lawrence Scientific 
 School, in a separate form, have ever been printed. 
 9 
 
66 ANNUAL CATALOGUES OF 
 
 1852-53. Second Term, "James Walker, D.D,," Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 1853-54. " Harvard College " changed to " Harvard Uni- 
 versity;" so that the title is "A Catalogue of the Officers and 
 Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year, 
 1853-54." Important changes made. Page 1, The titlepage. 
 2, " Abreviations." 3, " Corporation." 4, " Overseers." 
 5, " Officers of Instruction and Government." 8, " Academic 
 Year," (which, the next year and afterward, is called '-'Calen- 
 dar"). 9, "College Faculty," and "Parietal Committee." 
 10, "Undergraduates." 22, "Resident Graduates." 23, "Re- 
 quisites for Admission," followed by information pertaining to 
 Undergraduates, and, on page 44, to Resident Graduates. 
 After this are the names of the Faculties and of the Students 
 of the several Professional Schools, each School being imme- 
 diately followed by the information which particularly per- 
 tains to it ; thus differing from previous catalogues, in which 
 all the names were printed at the beginning, and all the other 
 information afterward. Index at the end omitted. This gen- 
 eral arrangement, in the main, has been continued to the 
 present time. 
 
 1854-55. General Index reconstructed and inserted. 
 
 1855-56. A new division, denominated " Astronomical 
 Observatory," with the names of the "Faculty" and of the 
 "Students in Astronomy," is inserted before the "Medical 
 School." 
 
 1857-58. The Brattle House, originally built for a hotel, 
 becomes the property of the University; and, the rooms 
 being occupied by students, it appears as one of the College 
 buildings, designated by the letter B. The occupation of it 
 by students ceased in 1864, and then it disappears from the 
 catalogues. In 1865, it was sold to be converted into a 
 printing-office. 
 
 1859-60. Second Term : " Cornelius C. Felton, LL.D.," 
 President. — "Museum of Comparative Zoology" introduced. 
 
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 HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 67 
 
 1860-61. " G. " for Graduates' Hall is dropped. " C. " 
 for College House takes its place. Second Term : As the 
 names of the Examining Committees were not furnished in 
 season, they were left out, and have not been inserted in 
 subsequent Catalogues. 
 
 1862-63. " Thomas Hill, D.D., President:' 
 1864-65. " G." for Grays Hall, now first occupied. 
 There being no Junior Class of Divinity Students, all the 
 members of the Divinity School are arranged alphabetically; 
 and a considerable change is made in what relates to the 
 " Museum of Comparative Zoology." 
 
 This concludes the statements which it seems desirable to 
 preserve. Some of them, though not very interesting or 
 important, are statements of facts which have no other record 
 but in the memory, and must soon have passed into oblivion. 
 
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