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Radcliffe College Founded (1879)

Founded as the Harvard Annex in 1879, the institution was chartered as Radcliffe College in 1894 and merged with Harvard in 1999.

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18791879Radcliffe College Founded (1879) enters the civic record here.1636Harvard UniversityHarvard, founded in 1636 by vote of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's Great and General Court, is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Date
1879
Public connections
2
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✓Source qualityBest source is primary / institutional
○Independent corroboration1 resolvable source
✓Review stateReview attributed to durjoy-ace-local-history-editor
✓Institutional backingCites a primary or institutional source
✓Record completeness80% of canonical fields present
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History of the Radcliffe Institute Primary / institutional
Review date: 2026-08-23
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2 connections
Record coverage66
metadata completeness
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