Further remarks on the memorial of the officers of Harvard College / by an alumnus of that college.

  • John Lowell, Jr.
Date:
1824
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    came, upon their election by the two boards and ac- ceptance, lawful Fellows, and so must continue till re- moved. As my remarks have been censured for looseness and obscurity, and as being a popular appeal to the prejudices of the public, 1 will endeavour, in my brief discussion of this new, and much simpler ques- tion, to be more precise. 1 shall first consider, whether, if the construction of the charter now contended for be correct, what consequences would follow from it; and what, under all the circumstances of the case, should be the course of the Overseers? 2d. I shall endeavour to show, that there is still less colour for the position now assumed, that the Fellows are held to reside, than there was for the claim of the memorialists, of the exclusive right of being elected. In the first place, if it be true, which it is very far from being, that it was the intention of the charter that the Fellows should reside, what consequences follow from their Jailing so to do? It would, it may be said, be such a neglect as would justify a removal. If it was the duty of the Overseers to remove them, the fault lies upon them, and they have at least the sa- tisfaction of knowing, not only, that by this neglect they have deprived no citizen of his vested rights, but that their negligence has been shared with more than a thousand persons, who have held the same offices from 1672 to ]824-—and that these persons enjoyed