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John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English dissenting minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called ...
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John Harvard ( Southwark, 26 novembre 1607 – Charlestown, 14...
- John Harvard
John Harvard ( Southwark, 26 novembre 1607 – Charlestown, 14 settembre 1638) è stato un pastore protestante britannico, che ha dato il nome all' omonima università .
John Harvard (born November 1607, London, Eng.—died Sept. 14, 1638, Charlestown [part of Boston], Mass. [U.S.]) was a New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College.
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1 gen 2000 · Only a little more than a year elapsed between the summer of 1637, when the Harvards arrived in Massachusetts, and September 14, 1638, when John died of consumption. During this period he became a valued resident of Charlestown, where he was called to be the church's "teacher," one of its two clergymen. In Harvard, Charlestown had a passionate ...
Plinth: 61 by 72 by 12 in. (155 by 183 by 30 cm) [1] Location. Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken ...
On March 13, 1639, the college was renamed Harvard College after clergyman John Harvard, a University of Cambridge alumnus who had willed the new school £779 pounds sterling and his library of some 400 books.
17 mag 2018 · John Harvard (1607-1638) was a Puritan clergyman and a wealthy emigrant to America. He left half of his estate and his library to a college that was later named after him, but his life and achievements are not well documented.
