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 EXTRACTS FROM A WILL 
 
 
 MAKING 
 
 BEQUESTS TO HARVAKD COLLEGE, 
 
 IN BEHALF OF 
 
 ^tctioii St(onb of Article 5 «onb. 
 
 The entire property herein given and bequeathed to 
 the President and Fellows of Harvakd College 
 shall ])e forever kept separate and distinct fi-oni all 
 other funds whatsoever, and from all other property 
 belonging to said College, excepting books as herein- 
 after sj)ecified ; and all accounts relative to the whole 
 property shall ])e kept in manusciipt books, wherein no 
 other accounts shall be entered ; and each book shall be 
 of a folio size, consisting of at least eight quires (768 pp.) 
 of thick linen ])aper, and bound in the same substan- 
 tial manner as the account books used in banking estab- 
 lishments, and shall \w lettered upon the back with the 
 name of yZtr^^^^rt' <!^irtf^^^j/f^ ^ot>f>^^jU ^ 
 Two of these book«^ shall be provided, if not done l)y 
 myself, as soon as tlio pn^perty pa=»ses into tlie liands 
 
of tlie Trustees, and designed for single entry ; one ta» 
 be used a& a ledger, and tlie other as a day-book. 
 
 Section Jfoiirlj) of %xiuk StconL 
 
 As fast as money may be paid over by my Executoi*?^ 
 to the said President and Fellows of Harvard College^ 
 or may otherwise come into the possession of the Presi- 
 dent and Fellows, the whole amounts shall be by them 
 invested in stocks, either of the United States or State 
 Govermnents, or on mortgage of real estate ; and, in 
 like manner shall the whole property hereby devised 
 and bequeathed to the said President and Fellows of 
 Harvard College, and all the revenues arising there- 
 from throughout the subsequent future, and whose- 
 appropriation or application is not otherwise herein 
 specified and directed, be invested and re-invested by 
 the said President and Fellows, and their successors in 
 office, from time to time, in Stocks of the United States- 
 or State Governments, or on mortgage of real estate,, 
 and so continued forever. 
 
 And, whereas, it has been the usage in some Colleges- 
 to maintain bequests, or other funds, upon which losses> 
 have arisen, at their origiiial value, or at their maxi- 
 mum increase, by deducting from the income of other 
 funds and adding the amount so deducted to the de- 
 clining fund, it will be seen from the conditions and 
 
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 specifications of this will, especially in the provision 
 made by the Accumulating Fund for losses that may 
 be sustained, as, also, in the precautions taken as to the 
 mode of investing the property, that it is my special 
 desire that all my bequests and devises to the President 
 and Fellows of Harvard College shall be, in all respects, 
 independent of all other funds belonging to the College ; 
 -and that, therefore, if any losses befal the bequests and 
 clevises herein made, it is my desire that they shall 
 not be made up out of any other funds belonging to the 
 College ; and so, on the other hand, no losses that may 
 befal any other fund belonging to the College shall be 
 made up, or any income thereof, out of any part of the 
 funds consisting of the devises and becpiests herein 
 made, or such as may accumulate thereon, or from the 
 income they may yield, but that the whole property, 
 and all the income it may afford, shall be forever 
 restricted to the objects herein specified, and according 
 to the true intent and meaning of this will and testa- 
 ment 
 
 Section ^Iftjj of lirticle ^mA 
 
 No part of the property given and devised to the 
 President and Fellows of Harvard College shall be 
 applied to any of the purposes hereinafter specified, 
 until the annual income shall amount to eight thousand 
 ^Inllars :(JK^OOO. ) An interval of several years must 
 
elapse before that revenue, at a compound interest of 
 five per cent., will be realized; tliougli the interval 
 will be more or less reduced by the prolongation of my 
 life, as all my future earnings will be applied, as far as 
 possible, to increasing this bequest. Were the time, 
 however, to exceed a generation, the delay would not 
 affect, injuriously, the objects of this bequest, which 
 make no distinction among the generations that are to 
 come ; and the same will be equally true of the guar- 
 dianship of the property. On the contrary, indeed, 
 where nothing is lost, but much may be gained, as in 
 the present case, by delay, it is evidently wise to await 
 the advantages which the future may bestow. But 
 this must not be permitted to run into excess ; and as 
 soon, therefore, as the aggregate annual income shall 
 have reached the amount of eight thousand dollars, it 
 shall be applied in the following manner : 
 
 First, — Four thousand dollars of the foregoing aggre- 
 gate annual income of eight thousand dollars shall be 
 applied annually to the support of sixteen free scholar- 
 ships. To carry out this purpose, four Undergraduates 
 shall be nominated from each of the four classes then 
 in College ; that is to say, four of the Freshman class, 
 'four of the Sophomore class, four of the Junior class, 
 and four of the Senior class, by the President and Fac- 
 ulty of the College to the Corporation, as the Benefi- 
 ciaries, to be approved by the Corporation. But as 
 
this may be troublesome to the Corporation, they may 
 adopt any plan which may seem to them expedient. 
 
 To each of the sixteen Beneficiaries, two hundred 
 and fifty dollars shall be given annually during their 
 connection with the College, to aid them in their edu- 
 cation. The first recipients, therefore, in the Senior 
 class will enjoy the benefit for one year only ; and as 
 the benefit will always thereafter cease with the Seniors 
 on obtaining their degree, the appropriation which 
 tliiLS ceases shall be annually renewed with the incom- 
 ing Freshman class, as soon as may be convenient after 
 they shall have joined the College, to each of whom 
 two hundred and fifty dollars shall be given annually, 
 during tlieir connection with the College as Under- 
 graduates, for the purpose aforesaid. Tliis pecuniary 
 aid shall be applied for the benefit of the' several 
 recipients in such manner as the President and Faculty 
 of the College may direct. It may, also, be withdrawn, 
 wholly, or in part, from any Beneficiary, for idleness, 
 or immorality, or profanity, or any other vicious habits, 
 or for neglect of the pu])lic duties of religion enjoined 
 by the College laws, or other grave offences, and in 
 cases, also, where, in the opinion of the Faculty, any 
 Beneficiary may have become independent of this aid ; 
 when, in all the cases, the President and Faculty shali 
 bestow the scholarship and its gratuity, if wholly 
 revoked, upon some other worthy member of the same 
 class, to be enjoyed by him during his connection with 
 
the College, in the manner aforesaid. Or, if a gratuity- 
 be revoked only in paii;, the scholarship shall remain 
 in its designation with the original grantee, and the 
 proportion revoked shall be applied in such benevo- 
 lent manner as the President and Faculty may direct, 
 or may ultimately i^store it to its oiiginal possessor. 
 
 The foregoing scholarships shall be entered and desig- 
 nated upon the College Records, and made known to 
 the Public every year, as the ^c. tr-^^^^C""^^^^ 
 Uryy-t^Jt, ^^^ytJup^ji^ Free Scholaksiiips, They shall 
 be preserved and conducted wholly distinct from all 
 other scholarships, and from all other affairs of the 
 College, and according to the true intent and meaning 
 of this bequest ; and all accounts, memoranda, tfec, rela- 
 ting to them shall be recorded and kept in the books 
 as directed in section second of this Second Article. 
 
 Secondly, — Four hundred dollars of the foregoing 
 aggregate annual income of eight thousand dollars shall 
 be loaned, annually, (if so much can be thus usefully ap- 
 plied,) to such Undergraduates as may desire this mode 
 of assistance, and who may be approved by the Presi- 
 dent and Faculty of the College, and in such sums as 
 the President and Faculty may deem expedient ; and 
 who shall also make such arrans^ements with the indir 
 dividuals thus assisted for repaying the loan at some 
 future period, as the circumstances of each case may 
 indicate^ And whenever the loans shall have been 
 
restored to tlie College, they sliall be added to the 
 Fund Avhieh will he hereinafter deBignated and de- 
 scribed as the AccuiiuLATiNG Fund, as shall be, also, 
 any pai-t of the said four hundred dollars that may not 
 have been loaned. 
 
 These scholai-ships shall be entered and designated 
 upon the College Records, and made known to the 
 pubhc, as the /^(^t^^^^'^-^'S^^^^^^^^ e^^^^^^^i^z^^ 
 Loan Sciiolaksiiips. They shall be preserved and con- 
 ducted wholly distinct from all other scholarships, and 
 from all other affaii*s of the College, and according to 
 the true intent and meaning of this bequest ; and all 
 accounts, memoranda, <fec., relating to them shall be 
 recorded and kept in the books as directed in section 
 second of this Second Ai-ticle. 
 
 Thirdly, — Five hundred dollars of the foregoing 
 aggregate amiual income of eight thousand dollai*s shall 
 be given annually in three Prizes, one of which shall 
 be two hundred dollai*s, and each of the other two, one 
 hundi-ed and fifty dollai-s, or gold medals of equal ^ alue, 
 if preferred, with an inscription thereon, designating 
 /Zc?^e^r-t~^/^yt^<^^ ^cx^!^^~^ as the origin of 
 these dissertations, to the authoi-s of the best approved 
 essays upon the following sulyects. Three of the sul>- 
 jects shall be given out annually for competition to the 
 Senior class, one of which shall consist of a subject to 
 which the figure 1 (one) is prefixed, another of a sub- 
 
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 ject to which the figure 2 (two) is prefixed, and another 
 of the next following subject to which the figure 3 
 (three) is prefixed. To tlie author of the best disser- 
 tation on the subject to which the figure 1 (one) is 
 prefixed, and which is the first of the series for each 
 year, the prize of two hundred dollars shall be given ; 
 and to the authors of the best dissertations on the sub- 
 jects to which the figures 2 and 3 are prefixed, and 
 Avhich are the second and third in the series for each 
 year, the prize of one hundred and fifty dollars shall 
 be given. 
 
 The following are the subjects : 
 
 I. First Year. — 1. The power, wisdom, and goodness of 
 
 God, as manifested in the physical and moral world. 
 
 2. The advantages of a classical education. 
 
 3. " We have reached that stage of our progress in 
 which the highest pleasure that this life can afford is 
 the anticipation of that which is to follow." 
 
 II. Second Year. — 1. Christianity, considered as the basis 
 
 of modern civilization, and as promoting the religions 
 and moral progress of mankind. 
 
 2. The relative advantages of the learned professions. 
 
 3. " The inseparable enemies of greatness." 
 
 III. Ihird Year. — ^The character and genius of St. Paul, and 
 the influence of his writings upon morals and religion. 
 
 2. " Divide with reason between self-love and society ; 
 and be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others." — 
 jBaeon, 
 
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 3. **Is there less danger in believing too much or too 
 
 little?" 
 
 IV. Fourth Year. — 1. The existence, immateriality, and 
 immortality of the soul, as deduced by Eeasou. 
 
 2. The rise and fall of Kations. 
 
 3. " Which has the greatest influence in the forma- 
 tion of man's character, circumstances, mental consti- 
 tution, or free will ?" 
 
 V. FuTU Year. — 1. The character of David, considered iii 
 
 its compound relations to natural temperament, genius, 
 inspiration, sovereignty, and his own times.* 
 
 2. " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum 
 mirabilia." — Seneca. 
 
 3. ''I associate with no one, I employ no one, who is 
 not of my party in religion and politics." 
 
 VI. Sixth Year. — 1. " Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque 
 dabunt dii ; Carior est illis homo quam sibi." — Juvenal. 
 
 2. The objections to La Place's Evolution of the Uni- 
 verse, or Nebular hypothesis. 
 
 3. Subject to be assigned by the President and Fac- 
 ulty. 
 
 VII. Seventh Year. — 1. The causes which contribute most 
 to infidelity in religion, and the importance of a thor- 
 ough knowledge of the Scriptures to men of scientific 
 pursuits. 
 
 2. " Kec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludem." — 
 Horace, 
 
 "Once to be wild is not a f<ul disgrace; 
 The blame is to pursue the frantic race." 
 
 * Ajinihff mihjcct tnajr be subfttitntod for the flrst of ihe fifth yenr, if thonght exp^dieot. 
 
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 3. Subject to be assigned by the President and Fac- 
 ulty. 
 
 YIII. Eighth Year. — 1. " Nunc patimiir longse pacis mala^ 
 siBvior armis, Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur 
 orbem." — Juvenal. 
 
 2. Subject to be assigned by the President and Fac- 
 ulty. 
 
 3. Subject to be assigned by the President and Fac- 
 ulty. 
 
 IX. IS^iNTii Year. — 1. Quoe laedunt oculos fcstinas demere ; 
 si quid Est animum differs curandi tempus in annum.'^ 
 • — Horace. 
 
 2. " Et mihi res, non me rebus, submittere conor." — 
 Horace, 
 
 3. Subject to be assigned by the President and Faculty, 
 
 X. Tenth Year. — 1. 
 
 '' Lord Cardinal ! If thou thinkest on Heaven's bliss,. 
 Hold up thy hand ; make signal of that hope I 
 He dies and makes no sign 1" — ShaJcsjpeare. 
 
 2. Subject to be assignetl by the President and Faculty, 
 
 3. Subject to be assigned by th-e President and Fac- 
 ulty. 
 
 XI. Eleventh Year. — 1. Tke connection between science^ 
 nature, and Revelation. 
 
 2. Human happii>ess, how best obtained. 
 
 3. " * Men of the world, who have their portion in this 
 life.^ The Psalmrist's idea of a man of the world, and 
 
 XII. Twelfth Year. — 1. " Quicquid est illud, quod sentit, 
 quod sapit, quodTivit, quod viget, caileste et divinuui 
 ^ , ob eamqud rem a^ternuni sit ivecesse est."" — TuU, 
 
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 2. " Vera gloria radices agit, atque etiam propagatnr ; 
 ficta omnia celeriter, tanqnam flosculi, decidunt, nee 
 simulatum potest quidquam esse diuturnnm." — Tull. 
 
 3. " Haec olim raeminisse juvabit." — YirgiL 
 
 The foregoing Prize Dissertations shall be entei^d 
 upon the College Records, and made known to the 
 public as the /Zc-^-e^r4~^o-^ir^>c^ <^oc^^9^^^ 
 
 Prize Dissertations. They shall be preserved and 
 conducted wholly distinct from all other dissertations, 
 and from all other affaii's of the College, and according 
 to the true intent and meaning of this bequest ; and 
 all accounts, memoranda, &c., relating to them shall be 
 recorded and kept in the books as directed in section 
 second of this Second Article. 
 
 It is my desire that the foregoing subjects, or such 
 as may be left to be supplied by the President^ be 
 given out to the Senior class, for competition, in the 
 order of their an^angement^ from year to year; and 
 that, when the whole series shall have been completed, 
 they shall be gone over again in their regular order ; 
 and so continued forever. Nevertheless, the President 
 and Faculty will be at liberty to select the subjects 
 out of the order of the yearly arrangement, should 
 circumstances render it exj)edient ; and to promote this 
 object many of the subjects are left open to be sup- 
 plied incidentally by the President ; provided, however, 
 where the subjects are prescribed by myself, they shall 
 alwavs be of the number to which the figures 1^ 2, and 
 
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 3, are preiixed, and such as follow consecutively in tlie 
 year from wliicli the selection is made ; and provided, 
 also, all the subjects shall be given out for competition 
 before any one of the series is repeated. 
 
 Should there be no competitor for any one or more 
 of the prizes, or should no dissertation upon one or 
 more of the subjects be sufficiently meritorious, the 
 amount of the prize or prizes shall be added to the 
 Fund heremafter designated as the Accumulating Fund, 
 
 The dissertations shall be always written upon paper 
 of a uniform size, and of quarto form, and with a mar- 
 gin to admit of binding, according to a standard pro- 
 vided by the Faculty ; and as fast as they shall have 
 reached a proper number to form a volume, they shall 
 be substantially bound in Turkey-morocco, in uniform 
 style, and lettered on the back, /c/7^6-enr<. 
 ^J^ytyzA/x^ ^0i^ey^7ji^ Prize Dissertatiot^s, and kept 
 in the College Library. To be paid for out of my Li- 
 brary Fund. 
 
 I may be permitted to express a hope, also, that in all 
 cases w^here, in the judgment of the Committee, the dis- 
 sertations may be worthy of the public eye, their authors 
 may be encouraged to offer them for publication in 
 some literary journal, or to print them in a pamphlet. 
 
 FourtJily. — One thousand three hundred dollars 
 ($1300) of the foregoing aggregate annual income of 
 eight thousand dollars shall be invested annually for 
 
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 the promotion of knowledge at large, and the general 
 interests of the College, by submitting to the public, 
 through the usual channels of literary journals and 
 newspapei-s, one of the following subjects for Prize 
 Treatises, at the end of every fourth year, forever. 
 
 The provision thus made will amount at the expira- 
 tion of every fourth year, at six per cent, compound 
 interest, to near six thousand dollai^s. Of that sum, 
 five thousand doUai^ shall be given to the author of 
 the best treatise upon the subject announced for com- 
 petition, as may be deteimined by the Committee 
 appointed by the President and Faculty for examining 
 the Treatises ; and, as there will be an excess, at six per 
 cent., of more than nine hundred dollars over the 
 amount of the prize, that excess, or whatever it may 
 be, shall be given to the Committee as a compensation 
 for their trouble* 
 
 Provided, however, the authoi's to whom the prize 
 may be awarded shall pnnt, at least, five hundred 
 copies of tlie several Treatises, respectively; and the 
 first edition shall be of octavo form, and shall be printed 
 with w^hat is known as pica type, (either large or small 
 pica, as may be directed by the President and Faculty,) 
 as it respects the text, and upon paper equal to the 
 best quality used for printing books of octavo foim. 
 One copy shall be given to the Library of Harvard 
 College, bound in Turkey morocco, and one copy to 
 nine CV)lle.e:e Libraries, to be indioAted by the President 
 
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 of Harvard College. The title page shall bear the 
 designation of the ^€r^^rif~^'~0^yT-cA^ ^^/^U^t^^ju^ 
 
 Prize Treatise for tiie year , and there shall be 
 
 the same lettering upon the back of each volume, and 
 of all the copies that may be printed. When these 
 conditions shall have been complied with, and a certi- 
 ficate obtained from the President to that effect, or that 
 he is satisfied, the amount of the prize shall be paid. 
 
 The author shall be entitled, also, to one half of the 
 proceeds arising from the sale of the work, and the 
 President and Fellows of the College to the other half, 
 in all cases forever. 
 
 It is my desire that the moiety of sales accruing to 
 the Colles^e shall be invested till it reaches the sum of 
 ten thousand dollars, and that the interest from the 
 time the fund begins to accumulate, and up to its max- 
 imum, be annually paid to the President of the College 
 for the trouble to which these bequests to the College 
 will subject him. This fund may conveniently be 
 known as the Presidestt's Fund ; and all accounts rela- 
 ting to it shall be recorded and kept in the books as 
 prescribed in section second of this Second Article. 
 
 When the President's Fund shall have reached ten 
 thousand dollars, as aforesaid, the moiety accruing to 
 the College from the sale of Prize Treatises shall be 
 added to the Prize Fund, and as often as it may yield 
 five thousand six hundred dollars, a subject, in the 
 order of the arrangement, shall be given out to the 
 
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 public for a Prize Treatise, in the luauuer aforesaid, and 
 irrespectively of the regular quarternary series. Of 
 this amount five thousand dollar shall be given as the 
 prize, and six hundred dollai's to the examining com- 
 mittee ; and the authors shall conform to the conditions 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Should no treatise be offered, the same subject shall 
 be given out to the public for competition for the prize, 
 to be awarded by the examining committee at the 
 expiration of two or three yeai-s (as may be deter- 
 mined) from the regular temi, and ii'respectively of the 
 regular quarternary series, which shall be always in 
 regular progress. The extraordinary interest which 
 will accumulate during this period shall be added to 
 that part of the prize fund which will be made up of 
 the sale of Prize Treatises, as aforesaid ; as shall, also, 
 any extraordinary interest that may accrue upon the 
 contingent part of the fund. 
 
 Should treatises be offered, but none considered wor- 
 thy of the piize, the excess over five thousand dollai^s 
 shall be paid to the examining committee, in all the 
 cases, and the same subject, in all the cases, shall be 
 again given out to the public for competition, and the 
 piize awarded at the end of three yeai^, and irrespect- 
 ively of the regular quarternaiy series. The amount 
 of the prize being invested for three years will yield a 
 compensation to the examining committee for this repe- 
 tition of the subject. 
 
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 It will be thus seen that there is not only a provision 
 for an unbroken series of prize treatises once in four 
 years, but for an irregular series dependent on certain 
 contingencies ; so that there may be, from time to time, 
 more than one Prize Treatise in the course of the reg- 
 ular term of four years. 
 
 The first of the subjects in the order of arrangement 
 shall be given out to the public in connection with a 
 proper statement of its objects, the amount of the prize, 
 and conditions, as soon as this fund begins to accumu- 
 late ; that is to say, as soon as the other appropriations 
 begin to take effect, and therefore four years before the 
 prize will be awarded. And in like manner at the 
 expiration of the fourth year, and of every succeeding 
 fourth year, the next following subject in the order of 
 arrangement shall be publicly announced, that there 
 may be always an interval of four years, during which 
 the public will have the subject for the regular series 
 before them ; while a period of three years is allotted 
 to the irregular series. It is also desirable that all the 
 subjects be occasionally published in some suitable man- 
 ner ; and that the whole series be printed in a Preface 
 to the Treatises. 
 
 When the whole series of subjects shall have been 
 given out, they shall be again submitted, in the order 
 of their arrangement, to the i)ublic, and so continued 
 forever. 
 
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 The founder of these Prize Treatises \im,^)ipugntyh^ 
 his privilege not only to indicate the subjects, 1[id1\ to ^y^^ 
 require in connection with some of them an adherence^ . / 
 to certain principles which have been long maintained 
 and expounded by the highest order of intellect and 
 learning, but which are probably destined to be for- 
 ever controvei-ted ; and the founder would say farther, 
 that this limitation is not prompted by any objection 
 to the greatest latitude of opinions, in its relation to 
 individual rights, but by an indisposition to become 
 instrumental in promoting a latitude which, in his 
 judgment, may lead to the propagation of error. 
 
 The foregoing prize appropriation shall be entered 
 upon the College Records, and publicly announced as 
 a foundation for /Ze-^^^^rr~^^»^trx>L^ &^a.l^rju) 
 
 Pkize Treatises ; and all the Treatises shall be designa- 
 ted in like manner, as aforesaid, and be forever known 
 by that name. The fund shall be preserved and con- 
 ducted wholly distinct fi'om all other funds and all other 
 aifaii's of the College, and according to the true intent 
 and meaning of the bequest ; and all accounts, memo- 
 randa, <fec., relating to it shall be recorded and kept in 
 the books as directed in section second of this Second 
 Ai-ticle. 
 
 The following are the subjects for the foregoing 
 Prize Treatises: 
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 I. Tlie religious condition of the nations of the Earth; the 
 , , ; pj'ominent characteristics of their religions, respectively ; 
 
 the influence of their religions upon civilization: the 
 progress of Christianity, in the Protestant acceptation, 
 among the several nations, and the efficient means now 
 in operation to promote its extension. 
 
 II. Commerce, as a Science and an Art ; its best international 
 ■"'^•■provisions; its proper connections with other great 
 
 branches of industry in advancing national wealth and 
 power; its instrumentality in promoting civilization 
 and Christianity ; its general useful bearings upon man- 
 y^M'^ind, aud what tendencies it may have of an opposite 
 nature. 
 
 III. The history,- progress, and usefulness of Medicine, 
 including the prevailing doctrines at different eras ; its 
 liability to false and injurious simplifications, particu- 
 larly through specious analogies derived from Chemistry 
 and Physics ; the intelligible and practical nature of its 
 principles as founded upon the phenomena of living 
 beings in their healthy and morbid states, and the 
 necessity of a sound philosophy in medicine for the most 
 successful treatment of disease. 
 
 ly^ Jhe constitution of Civil Society, considered in a social, 
 moral, religious, and practical sense, the j)hilosophy of 
 
 " '^'"^legislation, and how to render them subservient to the 
 best interests of mankind. - 
 
 y. A general work upon Inorganic Chemistry ; embracing 
 ^ the principles of the science and its explorations of the 
 inorganic kingdom. 
 
 yi,j A general work upo^ the Materia Medica and Therapeu- 
 tics, based upon the arrangement projected by 
 
 -^/ZjC^nr-tY^ 
 
 ^Ci^iJr%j^ ^- ^"i i^ ^ work upon the 
 
Materia Medica and, Tlierapeiitic-s, publifc^lied at ^N'ew- 
 York, in the year , 1S48 ; and deriv^ing its principles 
 from the philosophy of Vitalism and Solidism. 
 
 VIL Agriculture, as a Science and an Art, theoretically and 
 practically considered, but especially in its practical 
 bearings. 
 
 VIIL The science of Political Economy, expounded in a 
 practical treatise, and subordinate to the principles of 
 
 Christianitv. 
 
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 IXi A woek upon Human Physiology, with a special refer- 
 ence to those organic properties which are inherent in 
 all parts, and to the laws of sympathy as founded upon 
 the nervons system ; including the part which the ner- 
 vous influence takes along with the organic properties 
 in the organic functions of man and animals; taking, 
 therefore, for the basis of the work, the philosophy of 
 Vitalism and Solidism. 
 
 X. A general view of Natural Philosophy, of its history and 
 
 progress, and of its influences for good or for evil, 
 according to its cultivation, upon religion and morals, 
 and upon other great interests of society. 
 
 XI. The relationship of the Sciences to the useful Arts, how 
 far the latter have been promoted by the former, espe- 
 cially by Chemistry ; what improvement the Arts have 
 undergone within the last fift}' years ; what new' ones 
 of importance have been introduced within the same 
 period of time, and what the advantages of peacQ ^o the 
 progress of the Arts. 
 
 Xir. A retrospective view of the Human Race, considei*ed 
 
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 other appliances of civilization ; and the progressive 
 numerical increase or diminution of the population of 
 different nations or countries, and their causes, for the 
 last fifty years. 
 
 Besides the specifications already made, tte copy- 
 right of all the treatises or works, shall be with the 
 College ; but the authors shall pay all the attendant 
 costs and expenses of the publications. 
 
 Fifthly. — One thousand dollars of the foregoing ag- 
 gregate annual income of eight thousand doUai's shall 
 be annually applied in purchasing books for the Col- 
 lege Library, and to binding the same when necessary 
 to their best preservation ; but no part of this appro- 
 priation shall be used for binding other books, or in 
 any other manner than now specified. 
 
 My own library, as appears at page 1, is a part of 
 the property hereby devised and -bequeathed to the 
 President and Fellows of Harvard College, to be incor- 
 porated with the College Library. As soon as may be 
 conveniently done after the books composing my library 
 shall have been removed to the College, it is my desire 
 that a seal be engraved, bearing upon it the College 
 arms and the inscription, ^^^^J^nr^ i^rtn^ S^aJruu 
 TO Harvard College, and that an impression from 
 ink be made with the seal upon the title page of each 
 volume, and, in like mannei*, upon all the books that 
 may be purchased, with the appropriation herein made. 
 
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 Sivthhj. — Eight liiindred dollars of tlie foregoing 
 aggregate annual income of eight thousand dollars, 
 and which is the balance of the sum as set forth at 
 the beginning of the present section, shall be annually 
 and forever reserved and invested, without any dimi- 
 nution of the amount, whatever accident may befal 
 the general aggregate annual income, as an Accumur 
 hthig Fund; which is also liable to a farther increase 
 from other sources, as already directed in the present 
 section ; that is to say, from contingencies relating to 
 the Ijoan Scholai-ships, (page 7,) and the Prize Dis- 
 sertations, (page 12,) and to an increase, ako, in the 
 ratio of any increase in the other appropriations, as 
 about to be described. 
 
 This Accumulating Fund is designed, in the first 
 place, and before all other specified objects, to meet, 
 or make up, according to the true intent and meaning 
 of the bequests, such losses as are liable to happen in 
 the best managed investments, and any depreciation -^ 
 that may arise in the general value of money, when 
 such depreciations are likely to be lasting. This Fund, 
 therefore, is intended to provide, especially, for the 
 entire independence of all my devises and bequests to 
 Harvard C'oUege, according to the conditions set forth 
 at page ?u Accordingly, it is my desire that the 
 income from this Accumulating Fund shall be applied, 
 whenever necessary, in maintaining and keeping u[) 
 the aforesaid general aggregate annual income of eight 
 
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 tliQusaud dollars, and in a ju§t relation, also, to the 
 :establislied current value of money, when it may liave 
 undergone depreciations ; tliat is to say, in the former 
 case, and first of all, where any losses may happen, 
 they shall be made up from the income of this Fund, 
 and in the latter case, the general aggregate annual 
 income of eight thousand dollars shall be increased in 
 its nominal amount from this Accumulating Fund, in 
 proportion to any absolute decline in the value of 
 money, and in the ratio of the several amounts, respect- 
 ively. 
 
 The next object intended by this Accumulating 
 Fund is the institution of other Free Scholarships, 
 according to the manner hereinafter prescribed. 
 
 TV A third series of objects intended by this Accumu- 
 lating Fund is the payment of any proper expenses 
 that may attend the management of the devises and 
 bequests ; except as respects the President, (page 14.) 
 
 - Provided, however, no part of the principal of this 
 Fund, whether formed by the regular yearly additions 
 of principal and interest, or from the other sources of a 
 contingent nature as aforesaid, shall be applied to any 
 of the objects of the Fund, nor shall the regular annual 
 appropriation of eight hundred dollars to the Fund, as 
 aforesaid, ever cease under any circumstances. It shall 
 be only the interest that may accrue from this Fund 
 
 jaftgritjbe supposed exigencies shall have arisen that 
 
 T ^alltbe,' a© applied :; > and , should moh i intere^fc- bie anadie- 
 
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 qnate to repair any losses that may be sustained 
 whereby the general aggregate annual income may 
 fall below eight thousand dollars, all the appropriations 
 shall be reduced, respectively, in a ratio corresponding 
 with the amounts of each ; excepting the annual ap- 
 propriation of eight hundred dollars to this Accumu- 
 lating Fund, which shall remain forever equal to that 
 amount, and shall be increased, also, in the ratio of 
 any increase of the other appropriations that may be 
 designed to meet depreciations in the value of motiey, 
 as aforesaid. And when the income of this Aecunitt^' 
 lating Fund may be required by the foregoing sup- 
 posed losses, or depreciations of the value of money, it 
 shall be withdrawn, as far as may be necessary^ fix)m 
 the other objects of the Fund, should such olrjects have 
 come into being, according to the manner hereinafter 
 specified, and shall be applied to those supposed exi- 
 gencies so long as demanded by them. 
 
 As the foregoing supposed losses, and depreciation 
 of the value of money, are not likely to happen often, 
 or to any great extent, the Fund will be generally 
 applied to the institution of Free Scholarshi]^, as afore- 
 said. Such Scholarships, however, shall not commence, 
 under this Fund, until ite annual income shall amount 
 to one thousand two hundred dollai^, which, by the 
 accumulation of principal and interest, (at five per 
 cent, compound interest,) will hai)pen in eighteen 
 yeai-s after the Fund begins to accumulate. Of the 
 
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 sum thus yielded one thousand dollars shall be applied 
 to the institution of four Free Scholarships, of which 
 there shall be one in each of the four Undergraduate 
 classes, and to each of which two hundred and fifty 
 dollars shall be annually appropriated, and in all 
 respects after the manner of the other Free Scholar- 
 ships, as aforesaid. In like manner, also, they shall 
 bear the designation of the /^^'^ca^^ iC^rt^^^^/xy 
 Sra^i^r-L^tL^ Free Sciiolakships. 
 
 The remaining two hundred dollars of the annual 
 income, as aforesaid, shall be applied, when necessaiy, 
 to contingent expenses, as aforesaid, (page 22,) and 
 whatever part of said two hundred dollars may not 
 be thus required, the part or the whole shall be added 
 to the principal of this Accumulating Fund. 
 
 Should no accident befal my bequests to the Col- 
 lege, this Accumulating Fund must go on increasing 
 to an indefinite extent ; and as fast, therefore, as it 
 may yield another clear annual income of two hundred 
 and fifty dollars beyond the twelve hundred dollars, 
 aforesaid, another Free Scholarship shall be estab- 
 lished, beginning with the Freshman class ; and so 
 continue to be done forever. 
 
 Nevertheless, as the primary objects of this x\ccu- 
 mulating Fund are to maintain the general aggregate 
 annual income, as aforesaid, at eight thousand dollars, 
 and to provide for depreciations of the value of money, 
 and as it is an important object, therefore, to maintain 
 
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 the annual income of this Accumulating Fund at one 
 thousand two hundred dollars after it shall have 
 reached that amount, should this income, at any time 
 thereaftier, fall below that sum, the Scholarships shall 
 be suspended, and the income of the Fund be added to 
 the principal until the latter shall have been so increased 
 as to again yield a clear annual amount of one thousand 
 two hundred dollai's ; when the Scholarships shall be 
 again restored. 
 
 And provided, also, should the aggregate annual 
 income of eight thousand dollai*s, as aforesaid, fall 
 below that sum fi-om losses, or from any causes what- 
 ever, or should there arise a depreciation of the value 
 of money, as aforesaid, and should said Scholai^ships 
 have been established, a sufficient amount of the income 
 of this Fund, or the whole of its income, if necessary, 
 shall be withdrawn from the Scholai-ships and applied 
 to the foregoing supposed exigencies. As soon, how- 
 ever, as these supposed exigencies shall have been 
 satisfied, and the annual income of the Fund shall have 
 again reached the sum of one thousand two hundred 
 dollars, it shall be again restored to the Scholarships, 
 and in the manner aforesaid. 
 
 Without presuming to depai-t from the proprieties 
 of a Bequest for educational i)urpo3e8, I may be per- 
 mitted to express a wish that, should any accident, or 
 dilapidation, bc^fal the monument or fence erected upon 
 the lot in Mount Auburn Cemetery, where repose the 
 
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 remains of J^a^-^rlrOyiiroL/i- ^^yOT^t.^y' 
 it may be repaired, and paid for by money arising 
 from this Accumulating Fund. I have thought this 
 a more judicious course than making a special grant 
 to the Corporation of the Cemetery, for that object, 
 (as had been my purpose.) 
 
 This Accumulating Fund, like all the other appropri- 
 ations, shall be held distinct from all other funds and 
 all other affairs of the College, and applied according 
 to the true intent and meaning of the bequest ; and 
 all accounts, memoranda, &c., relating to it, shall be 
 recorded and kept in the books as directed in section 
 second of this Second Article. 
 
 Stttion Sekntlj of ^rtklc Sttonb. 
 
 Whereas, there are, or have been, distinguished men 
 of the name of /Lo-^^/)^ ^^^r^aXr&^ciyi'^'^-^^ ^ 
 
 and as that of my late son has been mistaken for 
 /Zer^^^rirtf^^-exzX ' although it was 
 
 his usage to write his name without any abbreviation, 
 it is my desire that both of his Christian names shall 
 always be expressed in full, so far as his name may be 
 connected with the foregoing bequests and their appro- 
 priations ; and that all public announcements of the 
 subjects of Prize Treatises, and Prize Dissertations, 
 and Scholarships, be always made in the full name of 
 
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 as far as may be consistent, as if the bequests^ anfti/ 
 their appropriations, had been made by him ; it beini^ 
 my earnest desire to divest myself of all merit to which 
 the bequests may seem entitled, and to bestow it 
 wholly upon my son, as it is the object of the whole, 
 in a personal sense, to illustrate what I know to have 
 been his superior worth, and his views of education 
 and religion, and to render his life pennanently useful. 
 He has left me, in his character, a legacy of inconceiva- 
 ble value, and it is the plain duty of the father, as it is 
 his happiness, to bestow it, as far as possible, upon the 
 world. Nevertheless, I must appear, at the first, to 
 those who will be most immediately interested in the 
 bequests, as having been connected with them ; though 
 only so as having been moved thereto by the foregoing 
 considerations. In this limited view of my relation to 
 the bequests, and as their practical application is pros- 
 pective, their specifications numerous and somewhat 
 complicated, to aftbrd facilities to those who may be- 
 come interested in them, I shall print a number of 
 copies, embracing a large part of the Second Article 
 of this Will, to be placed in the hands of the Presi- 
 dent of the College, and of other friends of the Insti- 
 tution. I would desire, also, that a copy may stand 
 upon the shelves of the College Libraiy. 
 
 Will dated, City of Nefo-Yorh, November 15, 1853. 
 
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