Samīr al-Amīr: Ḥāshiyat ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Makhlūf al-Badawī al-Ḥanafī ʻalá Shar��� al-Muḥaqqiq al-Amīr li-basmalat Shar��� al-Mullawī al-Ṣaghīr ʻalá al-Samarqandīyah fī al-bayān

"Wa-qad ṭarraza al-muḥashshī nuskhatahu allatī ashkhaṣahā ilaynā lil-taṣḥīḥ ʻalayhā bi-ḥawāshin raqīqah wa-nafāʼis anīqah wa-ashāra bi-waḍʻihā maḍbūṭah bi-al-ʻadad qawlah baʻda qawlah fa-ajabnāhu ilá ṭalabihi kamā ajabnāhu ilá taṣdīr al-ṣaḥīfah bi-ʻibārat al-Amīr wa-irdāfihā bi-Samīrihi."

" Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government" collection, 1787-1917

This collection contains various manifestations of a humorous poem, most often called "Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government," written by classmates John Quincy Adams and John Murray Forbes in 1787. Both Adams and Forbes were members of the class of 1787, and the poem recounts events surrounding the pranks and ensuing punishment of two members of the class behind them, Robert Wier and James Prescott. Wier and Prescott had been caught drinking wine and making "riotous noise," and they were publicly reprimanded by Harvard President Joseph Willard and several professors and tutors, including Eliphalet Pearson, Eleazar James, Jonathan Burr, Nathan Read, and Timothy Lindall Jennison. The poem mocks these authority figures, but it spares Samuel Williams, whom it suggests was the only professor to find their antics humorous.