Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Harvard originally called New College but renamed after John Harvard

Quoting elombah daniel <elsdaniel@yahoo.com>:Big slave trade port.

> Do you know that Harvard, a university in the United States, was New
> College but renamed after John Harvard?
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> "Harvard was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court
> of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest institution of
> higher learning in the United States. Initially called "New College"
> or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed Harvard
> College on March 13, 1639. It was named after John Harvard, a young
> English clergyman from Southwark, London, an alumnus of the
> University of Cambridge (after which Cambridge, Massachusetts is
> named), who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books
> and £779 pounds sterling, which was half of his estate.[20] The
> charter creating the corporation of Harvard College came in 1650"  -
> Wikipedia
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