Report of a Committee of the Corporation of Harvard College appointed “to consider the expediency of making further regulations relative to Commons,” May 19, 1807

This report expressed the opinion of the Committee that, despite the students' complaints, Commons should be not changed in any meaningful regard (save for the method of purchasing beef). Among other reasons for explaining the inflexible position of the Corporation, they stated, “alacrity, cheerfulness and docility are the companions of temperance; petulance, disquietude and perverseness are the intractable offspring of indulgence.” In addition, they suggested that students should refrain from sampling delicacies in town to better appreciate the "plain, simple, and wholesome food of the hall."

Letter to Rev. Dr. John Lathrop from John Davis accompanying report relative to commons, June 2, 1807

Accompanies report dated May 19, 1807.

[Admittatur of Simeon Putnam], 1807 September 23

Published copy of the 1807 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate Simeon Putnam signed by President Samuel Webber on September 23, 1807.

Hollis Hall…S.E. [Southeast] view, ca. 1807

Pencil drawing of Hollis Hall, southeast view .