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45 unusual facts about Harvard College


Ardeley

Charles Chauncy, third president of Harvard College, was born in Ardeley (then Yardeley) Bury on 5 November 1592.

Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873

Born into a wealthy, traditional Brookline family, Aspinwall studied law at Harvard.

Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith

Charles Gibbs-Smith was born in Teddington, Greater London in 1909 to a medical family which included in its line John Harvard, the founder of Harvard College.

Charlotte Gordon

She was born in St.Louis, Missouri in 1962, received her B.A in English and American Literature from Harvard College.

Comfort A. Adams

"Doc Adams", as he was commonly addressed by his colleagues and friends, received his Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from his alma mater, Case School of Applied Science, in 1925 after having been on the faculty at Harvard College and dean of their engineering school for almost 35 years.

David Cornwall

After studying math and physics at Harvard College for one and a half years, he dropped out in 1957.

David G. Grier

Raised in New York City and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, Grier attended Harvard College, where he graduated with high honors in physics.

Douglas Rex

Rex returned to home state Indiana and enrolled at Indiana University School of Medicine in 1976 after graduating from Harvard College, Boston.

Ernest Amory Codman

He attended the Fay School in Southborough, and prepped at St. Mark's School, matriculating at Harvard College.

Ernest J. Wilson III

Originally from Washington, D.C., Wilson earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Harvard College.

George Edward Woodberry

Receiving his preparation at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Harvard College in 1872.

Harold Richman

At age 22, Harold Richman received an A.B in American History and Literature from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard rugby

The Harvard Rugby Football Club is a collegiate rugby team at Harvard College.

Harvard Undergraduate Council

In 1980, the Dean of Harvard College John B. Fox initiated a committee that was to be called the Committee to Review College Governance, chaired by John Dowling, who was a professor of biology at the College.

, colloquially known as "the UC", is the representative student government of Harvard College.

Hubbardston, Massachusetts

It was named for Thomas Hubbard, a prominent Bostonian who served several years as the Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and was the treasurer of Harvard College for 17 years.

Jacob Loewenberg

Loewenberg was accepted into Harvard College upon arrival and began studying philosophy, earning a bachelors degree in 1908, a masters degree in 1909, and a doctorate in 1911.

Jennifer Mnookin

She grew up in Berkeley and Palo Alto, California, and attended Harvard College, where she was an editor for The Harvard Crimson.

Johannes Magirus

It was employed to teach physics in the early years of Harvard College.

John Couriel

He attended Harvard College from 1996 to 2000, graduating magna cum laude with an A.B. degree in Social Studies.

John Cutt

He was married to Hannah Starr, daughter of Dr. Comfort Starr of Boston, a founder of Harvard College and a surgeon who emigrated from Ashford, Kent, England.

John Hancock, Jr.

Hancock graduated from Harvard College in 1719, and served as a librarian there from 1723 to 1726.

Ken Liu

Liu earned his B.A. in English from Harvard College and worked in the technology field for several years before earning his J.D. at Harvard Law School and entering the field of patent law.

Latin honors

In 1869, Harvard College became the first college in the United States to award final honors to its graduates.

Lesson of the Evil

He graduates from Harvard College with a MBA, and works at Morgenstern, an European investment bank, for two years.

Lino Pertile

In 2005, he was named Harvard College Professor, a special teaching recognition awarded to those faculty members who have most invested their time and energy in teaching undergraduates.

Mamphela Ramphele

Ramphele is also a former fellow of the Bunting Institute and was elected as an honorary member of the Alpha and Iota chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges.

Manter Hall School

Founded in 1884 by William W. Nolen (Harvard, Class of 1884) as Nolen's Tutoring School, the original mission of the school was to tutor Harvard undergraduates to prepare them for mid-term and final examinations.

Nick Sweeney

After finishing his school studies he took a year out before traveling to the USA, to Harvard College where he completed a four-year degree.

Pablo S. Torre

He later graduated from Harvard College with a magna cum laude degree in sociology in 2007, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Paul Dudley White

A 1903 graduate of the Roxbury Latin School, his undergraduate education at Harvard College encompassed history and forestry as well as pre-medical courses.

Peer Health Exchange

In 2006, PHE launched a program in Boston, training college students from Boston University and Harvard College.

Philip F. Gura

A graduate of Phillips Academy (1968), he received his A.B., magna cum laude, in History and Literature in 1972 from Harvard College, and his Ph.D., in the History of American Civilization in 1977, from Harvard University, where he lived in Lowell House.

Ray Ginger

Despite his troubled childhood, and the equally troubled personality it engendered, his incisive intelligence and great verbal gifts were rewarded by acceptance to both Harvard College and the University of Chicago before his 17th birthday.

Richard Losick

Along with Daniel Kahne and Robert Lue, he teaches Life Sciences 1a, the introductory Biology/Chemistry course at Harvard College, which is the College's third largest lecture course.

Rufus Wyman

He entered Harvard College in 1795 and graduated with from its medical school in 1799.

Samuel Phillips Payson

Reverend Samuel Phillips Payson (January 18, 1736 – January 11, 1801) was a Harvard graduate who ministered for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1757.

Scire facias

In 1684, the royal charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was rescinded by a writ of scire facias for the Colony's interference with the royal prerogative in founding Harvard College and other matters.

Sewall-Ware House

In the mid-18th century it was the boyhood home of Harvard College divinity professor Henry Ware, and remained in the Ware family well into the 19th century.

Sidney Willard

Willard was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard College.

Simeon Adlow Friedberg

He was enrolled into Harvard College by the age of 16 but was drafted into the army at the same time, to fight in World War II from which he didn't came back till 1945.

Stanley McCandless

Stanley McCandless began devising this system while at Harvard College.

Student Sponsorship Programme South Africa

Ms. Clarke holds a BA in Economics cum laude from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.

Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956.

William Bourne Oliver Peabody

Peabody was born in Exeter, New Hampshire to Judge Oliver Peabody, graduated from Harvard College in 1816, and subsequently served as an assistant instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1817.


Adam Clymer

Born to children's book author Eleanor Clymer (née Lowenton) and Kinsey Clymer, Clymer attended The Walden School in Manhattan and then Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1958.

Advertisements for Myself

The collection, which was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959, features stories from Mailer's days as a student at Harvard College as well as later works, including his essay "The White Negro" and the short story "The Time of Her Time".

Armand Nicholi

He has taught a course on Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis at Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School for more than 35 years.

Chatham, New Hampshire

Chatham was regranted in 1770 by his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, to a group including Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College and creator of the "Blanchard Map" of the North Country.

Christopher M. Schroeder

Schroeder graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in American and Ancient History (where he studied with Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald) and international diplomacy historian Ernest May.

Christopher Wilkins

Wilkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where by 1978 he obtained bachelor's degree from Harvard College He studied with German-born conductor named Otto-Werner Mueller while being enrolled into Yale University and got his Master of Music degree from there by 1981.

Excellence Without a Soul

Excellence Without a Soul is a book by Harry R. Lewis, the former Dean of Harvard College, that examines the state of America's universities and colleges with particular reference to Harvard.

Gerald A. Lewis

Born in 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama to Bernard and Molly Lewis, Gerald Lewis was educated in Birmingham schools before attending Harvard College and graduating with an A.B. degree in 1955.

Haverford Fords

Haverford's soccer team, the nation's oldest, won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905, beating Harvard College.

James M. Jasper

Graduating in 1975 from Saint James School, where he was elected Senior Prefect, Jasper attended Harvard College.

John Culver

Culver was the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, for a year following his tenure at Harvard College.

Nathaniel Saltonstall

He graduated from Harvard College in 1659, beginning the family tradition of higher education at this university.

Richard H. Bassett

At Harvard College he trained with the painter Martin Mower and Professor Denman Ross.

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.

Sullivan currently serves, in residence, as the master of Winthrop House at Harvard College, where he lives with his wife (fellow Harvard Law School instructor and Class of 1994 Harvard Law School alumna Stephanie Robinson) and two sons.

Tales of a Wayside Inn

The poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 20 miles from the poet's home in Cambridge, and a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College.

William Monroe Trotter House

A graduate of Harvard College, Trotter helped organize the "Boston Literary and Historical Association" in 1901, a forum for militant political thinkers, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Oswald Garrison Villard.

William R. Newman

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.