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March 13, 1639
Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
Harvard College
Harvard College is an undergraduate college within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
John Harvard
John Harvard (1607–1638) 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 received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".
March 13
March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 293 days remain until the end of the year.