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- catalog abstract "The 10-page pamphlet contains a poem written by Harvard student Samuel Dexter during his junior year and presented to the Harvard Board of Overseers on April 21, 1780. The rhyming piece champions science as the "real greatness of the human race" over military power, and provides a chronological panegyric of literary and scientific achievements through human history in Africa, Greece, Rome, Britain, and ending with "this far western world," specifically, "infant Harvard." The poem mentions Homer, Virgil, Tully, Roger Bacon, Newton, Francis Bacon, Pope, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, and finally Benjamin Franklin and Harvard Professor John Winthrop. The poem notes Winthrop's death less than a year earlier, and concludes that Harvard should promote science until the Last Judgment Day when "Then shall a Hollis, then a Hancock rise, / And spring with rapture to their native skies."".
- catalog contributor b3360196.
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog coverage "United States Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog created "printed in the year 1780.".
- catalog date "1780".
- catalog date "printed in the year 1780.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "printed in the year 1780.".
- catalog description "Evans 16759".
- catalog description "Samuel Dexter (1761-1816) was a nationally known lawyer and politician. He was born in Boston in 1761 and earned his AB from Harvard in 1780 and received an AM in 1783. He practiced law and served in both the United States House of Representatives and Senate. He was Secretary of War in 1800 and interim Secretary of the Treasury from 1800 until 1802 after which he returned to the practice of law. He also served as the first president of the Massachusetts State Temperance Society.".
- catalog description "The 10-page pamphlet contains a poem written by Harvard student Samuel Dexter during his junior year and presented to the Harvard Board of Overseers on April 21, 1780. The rhyming piece champions science as the "real greatness of the human race" over military power, and provides a chronological panegyric of literary and scientific achievements through human history in Africa, Greece, Rome, Britain, and ending with "this far western world," specifically, "infant Harvard." The poem mentions Homer, Virgil, Tully, Roger Bacon, Newton, Francis Bacon, Pope, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, and finally Benjamin Franklin and Harvard Professor John Winthrop. The poem notes Winthrop's death less than a year earlier, and concludes that Harvard should promote science until the Last Judgment Day when "Then shall a Hollis, then a Hancock rise, / And spring with rapture to their native skies."".
- catalog extent "10 p. ;".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Historical materials. hua".
- catalog isPartOf "Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16759. mic".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. hua".
- catalog isReferencedBy "Evans 16759".
- catalog issued "1780".
- catalog issued "printed in the year 1780.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[Boston? ; s.n.],".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog spatial "United States Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Harvard College (1636-1780) Poetry.".
- catalog subject "Science Poetry.".
- catalog subject "Science Study and teaching (Higher) History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Science United States History 18th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.".
- catalog title "The progress of science : a poem delivered at Harvard College before a committee of Overseers, April 21, 1780 / by a junior sophister.".
- catalog type "Harvard students' poems. local".
- catalog type "Poems 1780. rbgenr".
- catalog type "text".