Excerpt from Mr. Gray's Letter to Governor Lincoln on Harvard University Fore has a right of visitation over it. But then who is the State P Surely not every person in it. And what is the right of visitation? Is it an arbitrary right to question, control, and punish at pleasure or is it a le gal right to be exercised according to the forms and principles of law and equity? How is it exercised in England, from which we derive the right itself, and the form of all our judicial tribunals. Does even the King himself exercise it personally? Not at all. The proper tribunal causes all parties in interest to appear before it, and after fair notice and full hear ing, and deliberate consideration, does unto them what to law and justice may be found to appertain. And if Massachusetts should see fit to exercise a similar power, she would undoubtedly exercise it through the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.