Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He was trained at Harvard College (Bachelor, 1690. Master of Arts, 1693). He served as minister of the First Church in Boston. And as president of Harvard from 1725 until his death.
lieutenant is the second oldest building at Harvard (the first being Massachusetts Hall), built on the site where Harvard’s earliest building, the Peyntree House, had previously stood.
lieutenant was used as Washington"s headquarters from July 2 to July 16, 1775, before transferring to the larger John Vassall House (now the Longfellow House) on Brattle Street. In nine Harvard presidents lived from 1726 to 1849.
In 1849, when Jared Sparks decided to stay in his nearby home, Harvard presidents ceased to live in After that time, took in student boarders (including Ralph Waldo Emerson "21) and visiting preachers, among others The lost its front yard when Massachusetts Avenue was widened.
Today, the building houses the Office of the University Marshal, the Commencement Office, Professor
Robert Darnton the University Librarian, the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication (headed by Peter Suber), and several professors. In 1712, Wadsworth was one of the first to write about abortion in America, saying those involved either directly or indirectly were guilty of, "murder in God"s eyes".