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  • "This is a fantastic endorsement of how popular our libraries are in the borough and how much the John Harvard is a much loved and much-used facility," says Cllr Lewis Robinson, Southwark's executive member for culture, leisure and sport.

    London SE1 community website 2009

  • While Spanish was spoken in what is now the United States well before John Harvard founded the College -- as I used to tell my Harvard undergraduates when I taught the first course on Latino Cultures in the history of the University, the fact remains that two thirds of the approximately 50 million Latinos in the U.S. today are immigrants or the children of immigrants.

    Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : Memo to Bald Men Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco 2011

  • While Spanish was spoken in what is now the United States well before John Harvard founded the College -- as I used to tell my Harvard undergraduates when I taught the first course on Latino Cultures in the history of the University, the fact remains that two thirds of the approximately 50 million Latinos in the U.S. today are immigrants or the children of immigrants.

    Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : Memo to Bald Men Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco 2011

  • When checking out books at Widener Library, they would have passed underneath the 1636 charter for Harvard College, signed by Thomas Dudley, who insisted that the school not be named after him, but instead after his friend John Harvard, who had recently died and donated his library to the school.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • When checking out books at Widener Library, they would have passed underneath the 1636 charter for Harvard College, signed by Thomas Dudley, who insisted that the school not be named after him, but instead after his friend John Harvard, who had recently died and donated his library to the school.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • Named after first benefactor John Harvard, a minister and Cambridge alumnus who bequeathed his library and half his estate to Harvard.

    Cambridge ousts Harvard as world's best university 2010

  • Why does John Harvard look so depressed and defeated?

    The College Catalogue Goes Bye-Bye: Harvard Catches Up With Zenith At Last Tenured Radical 2009

  • Why does John Harvard look so depressed and defeated?

    Archive 2009-04-01 Tenured Radical 2009

  • In 1638, John Harvard bequeathed his library and half his estate to Harvard College.

    Ron Mirenda: Change and Charity: How You Can Ensure They Both Survive 2009

  • Harvard University is named for 30 year old clergyman John Harvard, who died in 1638 of tuberculosis.

    Please Don't Call it Trivia #1 2008

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