Commonplace book : manuscript, [16--]

Notes concerning verses of the Bible, and moral and religious issues.

An abridgment of what I extracted while an undergraduate at Harvard College, 1766-1769

The bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Wadsworth from books he read as a student at Harvard in the late 1760s. The volume includes almost no personal commentary on the readings. The excerpts are arranged by year of study for the academic years 1766-1769, beginning when Wadsworth was a sophomore. Each entry begins with a title indicating the book title and author for the passage, and there is an alphabetical index at the end of the volume. Wadsworth selected “extracts” from both religious and secular texts including several histories of England, American histories (with a focus on Puritans), the Bible, and in his senior year, “the Koran of Mohammed.” He also read several books on the art of speech and the art of preaching. There are few science texts included, though the final five-page entry is titled, “What I thought fit to note down from Mr. Winthrop’s experimental Lectures” and contains notes both on the content of Professor John Winthrop’s lectures as well as the types of experiments being performed in class. Wadsworth’s commonplace book offers a window on the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College.

Letter from Samuel Willard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Catherine Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, November 22, 1799

Willard discusses tailoring his coat, asks to be sent another towel and a Bible, and describes the latest Harvard fashion: “Deep blue is the Colour most in Vogue in this Place.” He also mentions that the “President and his family are pretty well,” and that he is invited to dine with them about once a fortnight.

Swiss Banking Secrecy; The Erosion of an Institution. IES WORKING PAPER 2/2008

Switzerland has for a long time been an important centre of banking services in Europe and beyond. Consequently, the banking sector has become important to Switzerland’s prosperity. This paper focuses on a central reason behind the success of the Swiss banking sector: the institution of banking secrecy, deeply enshrined in the Swiss history and tradition. The rapid development of international markets that eventually gave rise to a “group structuration process” has, however, progressively eroded Swiss banking secrecy. It has had to bend before the duty of transparency within the groups in order not to promote financial criminality through accelerated asset inflows. Switzerland has also had to develop a comprehensive legislative frame to tackle financial criminality, and to enter into international agreements providing for mutual assistance. This process has undoubtedly and irremediably weakened the Swiss banking secrecy. Most importantly, nevertheless, the questionable ethical and socio-economic grounds of this controversial institution could and should also start to erode it from within.

Studies in Arabic literary papyri.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Die Kosmogonie des Moses : im Vergleiche mit den geologischen Thatsachen /

Mode of access: Internet.

Present conflict of science with the Christian religion; or, Modern scepticism met on its own ground.

Mode of access: Internet.

The way of salvation in the Lutheran Church,

"Written for the common people. Also for use in Luther Leagues, adult Bible and catechetical classes."

The rudiments of Latin grammar.

Mode of access: Internet.

Theopneusty, or, The plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures /

Translation of: Théopneustie.

Religious pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on religion.

Tell it in Gath,

The tradition of New England ascendency.--The enigma of Puritanism.--Puritan culture.--Southern character and tradition.--The South and the civil war.--Poe, the artist.--Art and the nineteenth-century bourgeois.

The testimony of the rocks;

Mode of access: Internet.

Religious pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on religion.

Inspiration or evolution.

Mode of access: Internet.