HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The oldest educational institution in the United States, founded in Cambridge, Ma . in 1636. In that year the General Court of the colony of Ma achusetts Bay voted £400. to found a college to educate ‘English and Indian youth’. The first building was erected at New Town, later Cambridge, in 1637. In 1688 a young non-conformist clergyman John Harvard, d. at Charleston, and left £750., and his library of 300 books to the college which was named after him. The first president was the Rev. Henry Dunster, and the first graduating cla 1642, had nine members. In that year the General Court established a board of overseers consisting of the governor, deputy governor, and magistrates of the colony, and teaching elders of five towns. In 1650 the Court granted a charter; the internal administration including the president, five fellows, and the treasurer. A change came in 1780 when the governor, lieut. governor and council and senate of the Commonwealth of Ma achusetts took the place of the oo officials on the board of overseers, n 1865 the graduates were given the right came eligible as overseers in 1880. The progre of the college was long hampered by religious differences, lack of funds, the burning of Harvard Hall in 1664, and adhesion to the cause of the colonists in the Revolution. In 1782 a medical department with three profe ors was established and a medical school in 1816; a Law School in 1817, and Divinity School in 1819, the Lawrence Scientific School in 1847, and a Dental School in 1867. The college became a university after Charles W. Eliot (g.v.) became president 1869. In 1890 the Graduates School of Arts and Sciences became independent, and in 1906 the Graduates School of Applied Science. University Extension work was started in 1910, Graduates School of Medicine, 1912 and Graduates School of Busine Administration 1913. Schools and Departments. Harvard College and the Graduates School, established in 1872. Law, Divinity, and Dental Schools previously mentioned. The Bu ey School of Agriculture and Horticulture 1870; The Arnold Arboretum, forestry and arboriculture 1872; Astronomy, 1843; with a branch station on a mountain at Are quip a, Peru; University library of 1,181,635 volumes; the Gray Herbarium, 1864; the University Museum and Botanic Gardens, 1809 and the University Summer School. Twenty four acres are devoted to athletics and the Stadium seats 30,000. There is also the Harvard Club House, 1901 and Widener Memorial Library, 1915. The invested funds, etc., of the University are about $32,000,000. Annual income of the University 1920, $4,190,666. Students registered in 1922, 6,073. Faculty 957. President A. L. Lowell.