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Harvards 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams by HARVARD COLLEGE

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Title: Harvards 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
Author: HARVARD COLLEGE
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston, Massachusetts, 1791. No binding. Very Good. Broadside. List of Graduating Students and Theses for Disputation. Boston, Massachusetts: Samuel Hall, 1791. 1 p., 18 x 22 in. Interesting broadside in Latin issued for Harvard University's 1791 commencement lists Latinized names of 27 graduating students. Among the graduates are New Hampshire Justice John Harris (1769-1845); U.S. Representative Thomas Rice (1768-1854); and Henry Dana Ward (1768-1817), youngest son of General Artemas Ward (1727-1800), who initially commanded the patriot army around Boston in 1775. Historical BackgroundThe Theses broadsides display propositions and questions respectively, used in the Commencement tradition of public student disputation which began at Harvard College in 1642. The practice was instituted under the leadership of President Henry Dunster (president from 1640-1654) within a larger effort to model the college after European universities.Behind the printed broadsides was a multi-stage process that involved both students and faculty. The Latin theses were academic statements created by the graduating students to reflect the scope of their undergraduate study. The Theses fit within a curriculum that emphasized public discourse and syllogistic debate and ranged between approximately 50 and 250 propositions in most years. This broadside includes theses in technology, grammar, rhetoric, logic, metaphysics, ethics, theology, politics, mathematics, and physics.Printed at the expense of the graduating class, the Theses were posted in advance, and graduates were expected to be able to defend them upon request. Certain students were selected by the faculty to discuss and dispute specific Theses publicly as part of the exercises.From the first commencement in 1642, through 1810, Theses were listed in broadsides. They were supplemented from 1791 onward by the Order of Exercises for Commencement, printed in English. The last Order of Exercises was printed in 1810, and subsequent Theses were distributed as quartos until they were replaced in 1821 by a Commencement program. Generally, the ceremony for students receiving their Bachelor's degrees occurred in the morning and was followed by the Master's degree ceremony in the afternoon.John Hancock (1737-1793) was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1754. When his father died in 1764, Hancock became one of the wealthiest men in the colonies. He emerged as a leader in Boston's opposition to British policies and was elected as one of Boston's selectmen in 1765. Elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1766, Hancock learned from Samuel Adams, who gave him support and advice. Remaining in Boston while other patriots were away at the First Continental Congress, the Provincial Congress did elect Hancock as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, where he was elected President. He likely signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, witnessed in signature by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Congress. No other delegates signed the Declaration until weeks later. Hancock served as president until October 1777, when he took a leave of absence and returned to Massachusetts. He served as treasurer of Harvard College from 1773 to 1777. Hancock returned to Congress in 1778 and signed the Articles of Confederation. After adoption of the Massachusetts Constitution, voters overwhelmingly elected Hancock as the state's first governor. He served from 1780 to 1785, and again as third governor from 1787 to 1793, when Samuel Adams served as his Lieutenant Governor.Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1740. He earned a master's degree there in 1743. With little interest in business, he soon began writing political essays and was first elected to political office in 1747. In 1756, he became a tax collector but often failed to collect, which made him friends but left him deeply in debt. He opposed British efforts to enforce tighter control ... (See website for full description)

Guide des lieux de pèlerinage. [Par] Abul-Hasan Ali b. Abi Bakr al-Harawi, mort à Alep en 611/1215. Texte arabe établi par Janine Sourdel-Thomine./ Kitab al-Isharat ila ma`rifat al-ziyarat, ta alif Abi al-Hasan `Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi. by al-Harawi al-Mawsili, shaykh Taki al-Din Abu l-Hasan Ali b. Abi Bakr.

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Title: Guide des lieux de pèlerinage. [Par] Abul-Hasan Ali b. Abi Bakr al-Harawi, mort à Alep en 611/1215. Texte arabe établi par Janine Sourdel-Thomine./ Kitab al-Isharat ila ma`rifat al-ziyarat, ta alif Abi al-Hasan `Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi.
Author: al-Harawi al-Mawsili, shaykh Taki al-Din Abu l-Hasan Ali b. Abi Bakr.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Damas (Institut Français de Damas), 1953.. vii, (1), 28, (8), 140pp., 4 plates, 1 folding chart. 4to. Wraps.

Typed Letter Signed, Masaku, Kenya, to Eric Vega, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 23, 1977 by Hodges, Norman E.

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Title: Typed Letter Signed, Masaku, Kenya, to Eric Vega, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 23, 1977
Author: Hodges, Norman E.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: quarto, two pages, with retained mailing envelope, in very good, clean and legible condition. Hodges writes to Vega describing his work in Africa including an extended interview with Idi Amin over a period of four days in Kampala: "Dear Eric, ... I had a tremendous time of it in Uganda. My 16 hours of interviews with Idi Amin were spread out over 4 days, and each hour was filled with some tension, considerable suspense, and constant revelation. The man is difficult to fathom. His moods seem mercurial. I was received twice at his offices and twice at his residence in the suburbs of Kampala. He has a quick and ingratiating charm - but it exists at surface level, like a thin veneer. Sometimes he showed flashes of anger, irritation, and incredulity at a number of my questions (I had drawn up an extensive interview questionnaire - and the queries concerning press reports and foreign criticism of his personal rule and regime were the ones that appeared to bother him). However, the man was generally gracious, often times bombastic, and almost always wary. He had me stay over for lunch on one occasion and for dinner twice - so it was a rather intimate and intense 4 days. I look back upon these interviews now with a keen realization that their value lies not so much in the precise responses that Amin made to questions - but rather in the insights which the contact provided into the man's personality, temperament, and thought processes. Yet I was very relieved to leave Kampala when it was over - and Amin! I am now doing research in the Masaku area which is one of the most beautiful (scenically) locations in Kenya. It is one of the oldest towns in Kenya (only Mombasa is more ancient), is an educational and cultural center, is an Akamba tribal center, is famous for wood carving, and is set in a valley surrounded by the breathtaking Iveti Hills (where my wife comes from). I am researching the African (Akamba) response to forced military conscription and service in the Colonial (British) armed forces during the Second World War and, comparatively, their reaction to involvement in the Mau Mau movement or the so-called Emergency of the early 1950s (which was almost entirely voluntary and linked, of course, to the independence struggle). I interviewed men in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s (and there are quite a few of these around) using a tape recorder and a research assistant (who serves as translator and general aide). ..."

An Early Letter With Mention of Baseball by (BASEBALL)

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Title: An Early Letter With Mention of Baseball
Author: (BASEBALL)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ALS. 8pp. 5" x 7". Oct 4 99. Armstrong, Fla. An autograph letter signed "Marcel", with a very early mention of a baseball game. The sports content states: "...the Rail Road team came out on the train to play Ball and of course they won the game 7 to 5 in favor of the R.R. and I was truly glad they won but of course I could not say such out here as these folks would kill me... until the game started which was half pass [sic] two they ate dinner and the two boys and I sat together under the shed until time to go over to the Ball grounds so these the three of us walked... ". An early baseball letter

The Tempting of America by Bork, Robert H.

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Title: The Tempting of America
Author: Bork, Robert H.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780029037614
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: The Free Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Bork's second wife, Mary Ellen, to Lura Lynn Ryan, the wife of Illinois governor George Ryan. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.50), faded at the spine, toned at the back panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bork's "clear and complete statement of his social and legal philosophy" written after his doomed Supreme Court nomination. A unique association copy.

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Understanding, Understanding by ZIFF, Paul

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Title: Understanding, Understanding
Author: ZIFF, Paul
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780801407444
Condition: Good
Description: Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good plus pen markings throughout text, bumping of corners/ends, spine lean, fading of spine, small piece of top of last end pg torn off, some brown soiling on panels.

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