Harvard
was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, making it the oldest
institution of higher learning in the United States. The college was
named after John Harvard, a Puritan minister who had left his books
and half his estate to the college.
Funded by the church, the college established colleges of divinity,
law and medicine. By 1865 Harvard had established its independence
from the church and was run by elected members of a governing board.
People who have either graduated or taught at Harvard include John
Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, Wendell
Phillips, Martin Delany, Charles
Sumner, Rutherhood Hayes, Samuel
Gridley Howe, Theodore Roosevelt,
Walter Lippman, William
Du Bois, Richard Olney, Henry
Cabot Lodge, Francis Attwood, William
Randolph Hearst, Alice Hamilton,
Roger Baldwin, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Harold Laski, Herbert
Croly, Leonard Bernstein, John
Dos Passos, Joseph Losey, Pete
Seeger, Ralph Bunche and John
F. Kennedy.
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