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  2. History of Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts, which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university, and changed its name two years later to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in honor of the city in England.

  3. Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    harvard .edu. Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, 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 most ...

  4. William James - Wikipedia

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    William James. William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. [ 1] James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of ...

  5. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    t. e. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [ 1][ 2] Alabama leads the nation with the number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia.

  6. List of Harvard University people - Wikipedia

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    William Duane (1872-1935) A.B. 1893; A.M. 1895; Professor Physicist, professor emeritus and chair of Biophysics at Harvard, research fellow at Harvard Cancer Commission [108] E. Allen Emerson (born 1954) PhD 1981 Turing Award laureate Charles Epstein (1933–2011) Harvard Medical College 1959 Geneticist; injured by Ted Kaczynski a.k.a ...

  7. History of American football - Wikipedia

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    They decided to play with 15 players on each team. On November 13, 1875, Yale and Harvard played each other for the first time ever, where Harvard won 4–0. At the first The Game—the annual contest between Harvard and Yale, among the 2000 spectators attending the game that day, was the future "father of American football" Walter Camp. Walter ...

  8. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    A history of Negro education in the South, from 1619 to the present (Harvard UP, 1967), a standard scholarly history online; Bush, V. Barbara, et al. eds. From diplomas to doctorates : the success of black women in higher education and its implications for equal educational opportunities for all (2009) online; Coats, Linda T.

  9. History of education in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (U of North Carolina Press, 2010). online; Bond, Horace Mann. Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel (1939). online, a famous classic; Bullock, Henry Allen. A history of Negro education in the South: From 1619 to the present (Harvard UP, 1967). online