Junior Classology, 1793 June 29

Newspaper clipping of "The Fount" section of the Columbian Centinel of June 29, 1793 with the text of Junior Classology.

Clippings, 1793

Three clippings from the Columbian Centinel titled "'Squire Laureat Tobey to Sawney Laureat 'Squire, Inscribes this second edition of that delicate canticle 'Assology' being a parody on the first edition" written July 5, 1793; "Assology: Inscribed to well-beloved 'Squire Laureat Tobey" written July 18, 1793; "'Squire Tobey, to 'Squire Sawney" written July 18, 1793, and an undated "'Squire Tobey, to 'Squire Sawney."

Clippings, [1793]

One undated clipping from the Columbian Centinel titled "Squire Tobey, to 'Squire Sawney."

" Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man" : commencement essay, 1793

One-page sheet with handwritten essay titled, "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man," composed by graduate Ward Cotton for the July 17, 1793 Harvard University Commencement. The essay begins with the quote "'Man is a being composed of an organized body, and a rational soul.'"