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CORPORATION It took the young college, Harvard, only 14 years to learn that a small group must be responsible for administra- tion. The Board of Overseers, while fitted for more general decisions, was unwieldy, or unwilling to attend to the details of administration. In 1650, therefore, President Dunster petitioned the General Court for a charter. The charter set up the Corporation, a small and efficient group to supplement the Overseers. The First Colledge Booke, containing the minutes of the Corporation ' s first meetings, gives some idea of the scope of its powers. In these early days the Corporation seems to have been much concerned with the behaviour of the stu- dents. No schollar shall take Tobacco unlesse permitted by ye President with ye consent of their parents and guardians on good reason given by a Physitian. Freshmen shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe any servile work for them. Students wearing long hair after the manner of Ruffians and Barbarous Indians were to be disciplined. There is evidence that as far back as the seventeenth century the college was having biddy trouble. Concluded by the Corporation . . . that old Mary bee yet connived at to bee in the Colledge with a charge to take heed to doe her worke, undertake, to give content to the Colledge students. Under the heading Methods to Prevent Disorders at Commencements is ruled: Commencers not to have more than one gallon of wine. As a final example of thorough supervision, there ap- pears a searching inventory of the kitchen equipment, com- plete even to 1 old knife, verie rustie and 2 jugges, with- out lids battered. The make-up and powers of the Corporation have not changed in three centuries. It consists of five Fellows, the President, and the Treasurer. Three of the present Fellows live near Boston and two in New York, and, with the excep- tion of Dr. Roger I. Lee, all are lawyers. To a great extent the Corporation ' s procedure is informal and takes the form of dis- cussion followed by definite votes. The Corporation initiates all university legislation. In some cases its decisions are The Corporation plans general university policy, and has a mountain of detail to attend to
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; seventeenth final, and in other instances, such as the appointment of in- structors, the consent of the Board of Overseers is necessary. The Corporation has complete legal and financial responsibility for the university, and, hence, a considerable part of the time at the bi-monthly meetings is spent in consid- ering business matters. The Treasurer has charge of the invest- ments which the Corporation has undertaken, subject to the authority of the finance committee. Long lists of gifts to the university have to be acknowledged at each meeting; specific appropriations for proposed projects — for a new House, or an expedition to Mt. Sinai — must be considered, and all de- partmental budgets approved. With increasing expenses of operation and decreasing revenue from bonded interests, the Corporation has had to introduce the 10 per cent budget cut, and the Corporation will have to determine how to meet the needs of all university employees, for whom living expenses have doubled with no increase in salary. But the powers of the Corporation extend far beyond mere financial control. It is the Corporation ' s duty to make all appointments on the basis of recommendations from the Deans. The approval of the Board of Overseers is required in the case of all instructors for terms of over one year. The Corporation also grants degrees, again with the consent of the Overseers, and appoints all holders of scholarships and fellowships. The Corporation, then, has a mountain of detail to attend to, but always the most important function is the plan- ning of general university policy. It was the Corporation ' s decision when, a few hours after the declaration of war with Japan, the university ' pledged its resources without reserva- tion ' to the country ' s war effort. The complete adjustment of program now under way is the Corporation ' s responsibility. HENRY L. SHATTUCK A.B.. I.L.B., LI.. r — Follow ROGER I. LEE AH.. MI).— Fellow HENRY JAMES A II . II. H. I.I. 1). Follow WIMIAM H CLAFLIN J S 11 ORENVII.I.E CLARK II. I I II Mb CHARLES A. COOLIDGE IK II . I.I. II Follow JEROME D. GREENE l . I I ii ■nrtury 4 i r
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