Founding of Harvard College (1636)
In 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's Great and General Court approved £400 for a college; the institution later took the name Harvard College.
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Harvard, 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.
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Harvard Yard grew from the College's first acre, purchased in 1637 or early 1638, and remains the historic core of Harvard's Cambridge campus.
Enter this moment →First Printing Press in British America (1638)
A printing press was operating in Cambridge by 1638, the first in England's American colonies, placing early printed culture beside the young college.
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Conceived after the Civil War to honor Harvard graduates who served the Union, Memorial Hall was built as a memorial, theater, and gathering place and transferred to Harvard in 1878.
Enter this moment →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.
Enter this moment →Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums brings together the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums, whose institutional records date from 1895 to the present.
Enter this moment →The Mark I Computer (1944)
Delivered to Harvard in 1944, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, later called the Mark I, was designed by Howard Aiken and built by IBM for automatic calculation.
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