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See the list of founding fathers Lived: 1607-1638 An army may move on its stomach, but a university lives or dies on its endowment. John Harvard, one of the earliest investors in education in the English colonies, gave his name, as well as much of his wealth, to one of the earliest institutions of learning in that burgeoning region. Harvard University would grow from its humble beginnings with ...
John Harvard umarł bezdzietnie 14 września 1638. W testamencie zapisał połowę swojego majątku i bibliotekę (około 400 tomów), college’owi, który właśnie powstał w pobliskim Cambridge. Uczelnia ta została utworzona w dniu 8 września 1636, a imię Harvarda przyjęła w dniu 13 marca 1639.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the ...
John Callender Jr. (1706–1748) was an American historian and pastor of First Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island. He authored the first historical account of Rhode Island, An Historical Discourse on the Civil and Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhode-Island, in New England in America. From the First Settlement in 1638, to the end of ...
The education of Native Americans is woven into the long history of Harvard University. The Charter of 1650, which continues to govern Harvard, pledges the University to “the education of English and Indian youth.”. From 1655 to 1698, the “Indian College” stood in Harvard Yard, on the site currently occupied by Matthews Hall.
The school was renamed "Harvard College" on March 13, 1639. Harvard was first referred to as a university rather than a college by the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. The College's Harvard Hall burned in 1764, destroying all but one of Harvard's original 400-volume donation.( "Tale of John Harvard's surviving book". Harvard University
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Harvard has received more than 36,558 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019) . John Harvard is the 700th most popular religious figure (up from 946th in 2019) , the 590th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,072nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Religious Figure .
