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Excerpt from Speech: Delivered Before the Overseers of Harvard College, February 3, 1825, in Behalf of the Resident Instructers of the College, With an Introduction
In respect to the paper in question, it should be observed, that the memorialists did not intend to urge a legal claim for any of their number to be elected members of the Corpora tion; nor even to maintain, that residence was, at the present day, a necessary legal qualification for holding a seat as a member of the Corporation. Many propositions may be sufficiently established by moral evidence, which do not ad mit of legal proof and while the intention of the framers of the charter was, as the memorialists conceived, fully shown by evidence of the former kind, they were not qualified to decide, whether this evidence was of a nature to be received as legal proof. They were not qualified to decide whether.
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