 The new association, advocating the teaching of music at Harvard, sent the following series of resolutions to Josiah Quincy, Harvard's president at that time.Proposals from outsiders for the improvement of the university were considered presumptuous, and Quincy never acknowledged that he had received the document.It was not until 1862, when John Knowles Paine was appointed Harvard's first professor of music, that music became an established part of the curriculum.