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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
An aerial view of the Harvard University campus at night in July 2017. The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in New Towne, a settlement founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Allison Harvard (born 1988), American model and television personality John Harvard (clergyman) (1607–1638), English-American clergyman after whom Harvard University is named John Harvard (politician) (1938–2016), Canadian politician and journalist, former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".
Her ties to Harvard run deep After receiving her bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford in 1992, Gay enrolled in graduate school at Harvard, receiving her Ph.D. in government.
Canaday Hall. Completed in 1974, Canaday Hall is the newest dormitory in Harvard Yard.Seen from the air, its seven buildings resemble a question mark. It is named after Ward M. Canaday, former president and major shareholder of Willys, manufacturer of Jeeps during World War II.
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books, [2] is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener soon after his death in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.In 1999, it was fully incorporated into Harvard College.The college was named for the early Harvard benefactor Anne Mowlson (née Radcliffe) and was one of the Seven Sisters colleges.