Harvard College
Videos
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University. It is administered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Harvard College's first building, as imagined by historian Samuel Eliot Morison
Harvard during the colonial era, with the surviving Massachusetts Hall on the right
Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720, is the oldest surviving building on the Harvard campus.
Harvard College's freshman dormitories in Harvard Yard
John Harvard
Videos
John Harvard was an English Puritan 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 rec
Harvard College
…press, carried by the ship John of London. In 1639 the college (heretofore unnamed) was named Harvard College in honor of deceased Charlestown minister John Harvard (1607–1638) who had bequeathed to the school his entire library and half of his monetary estate. Harvard's first Headmaster was Nathaniel Eaton…
The John Harvard statue (1884) at Harvard University
Harvard House in Stratford-upon-Avon, the childhood home of John Harvard's mother Katherine Rogers
Emmanuel College window (1884) depicting John Harvard on left
Tablet, Emmanuel College