Harvard University
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Harvard University is the oldest institution of a higher education in the United States, and has been providing citizens with a higher level of education for approximately 376 years, and we would probably be in a different economical, political, and social state if it was never established. Harvard University (originally for only men) was established in the year 1636 by the grant of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harvard was named after the college’s first benefactor, John Harvard, a clergyman of Charlestown. Before his death on September 14th, 1638 at the young age of 30 of tuberculosis, John Harvard left the college half of his estate (worth 779 pounds) and his library containing over 400 volumes/books, including numerous Greek and Hebrew books and Bible commentaries, and works by Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, John Calvin, Plutarch, Homer, and many others. The General Court of Massachusetts Bay later decided to name the college, "Harvard College" in his honor. A statue of him stands in front of the University Hall in Harvard yard, and is known as the college’s best landmark.
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Monument to John Harvard in The Statue of John Harvard in the Harvard yard.
Charlestown near Phipps Street
Burying Ground.
During the 1640s, the college continued to expand regardless of its insufficient finances, and in 1650 it was incorporated and chartered by the General Court. The college was first intended to be a college solely for educating Puritan ministers, but soon, new and more liberal policies and subjects were introduced. Following the English rather than the European model, students lived inside dormitory rooms and would eat meals with their tutors (whom were quite ill-paid) at “commons”. During the 18th century, chiefly under the presidency of John Leverett (1708–1724), campus facilities and enrollment rate increased while religious attachment to Congregationalism
Harvard University is the oldest institution of a higher education in the United States, and has been providing citizens with a higher level of education for approximately 376 years, and we would probably be in a different economical, political, and social state if it was never established. Harvard University (originally for only men) was established in the year 1636 by the grant of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harvard was named after the college’s first benefactor, John Harvard, a clergyman of Charlestown. Before his death on September 14th, 1638 at the young age of 30 of tuberculosis, John Harvard left the college half of his estate (worth 779 pounds) and his library containing over 400 volumes/books, including numerous Greek and Hebrew books and Bible commentaries, and works by Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, John Calvin, Plutarch, Homer, and many others. The General Court of Massachusetts Bay later decided to name the college, "Harvard College" in his honor. A statue of him stands in front of the University Hall in Harvard yard, and is known as the college’s best landmark.
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Monument to John Harvard in The Statue of John Harvard in the Harvard yard.
Charlestown near Phipps Street
Burying Ground.
During the 1640s, the college continued to expand regardless of its insufficient finances, and in 1650 it was incorporated and chartered by the General Court. The college was first intended to be a college solely for educating Puritan ministers, but soon, new and more liberal policies and subjects were introduced. Following the English rather than the European model, students lived inside dormitory rooms and would eat meals with their tutors (whom were quite ill-paid) at “commons”. During the 18th century, chiefly under the presidency of John Leverett (1708–1724), campus facilities and enrollment rate increased while religious attachment to Congregationalism