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am required to withdraw from those literary studies and instructions, which had been originally marked out for me, and to devote my time to Elementary Instruction.
Now if my labors are of any importance to the College it is to the former class of duties, that the importance belongs.
The latter can be performed as well, perhaps better, by an instructor, employed and paid in the usual way. In point of fact, my office as Professor of Belles Lettres is almost annihilated, and I have become merely a teacher of French.
To remedy this, Gentlemen, I make to you the following propositions:—
I. That I should be wholly separated from the Department of Modern Languages, and be only Professor of Belles Lettres.
II.
That I should reside, as now, in Cambridge.
III.
That I should not be a member of the Faculty.
IV.
That my duties be confined to lecturing during the Autumn Term; and the rest of the year be at my own disposal, as in the case of the Professor of History.
V. In consideration of which I relinquish one half of my present income from the College, and receive only one thousand dollars per annum.
Respectfully submitted, & c., &c.
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1 Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. IX. 318.
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