In 1833 , Greenleaf was named to the Royall professorship education.education and in 1846 succeeded Judge Joseph Story as Dane professor of law at Harvard University .

Soon after he had returned to Boston , Boylston bequeathed to Harvard University on behalf of his uncle , Nicholas Boylston , an amount of $ 23,200 as a foundation of a professorship education.education Rhetoric and Oratory , specifying that John Quincy Adams should be appointed professor .

President Bache resigned in 1842 to return to his professorship education.education the University of Pennsylvania , and was succeeded by John Seely Hart , who had been a Professor of Languages at Princeton University .