Harvards Important Years

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Across
  1. 1. Harvard Law School is established.
  2. 3. The Divinity School is established.
  3. 6. First College in American colonies founded. The “Great and General Court of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England” approves £400 for the establishment of “a schoale or colledge” later to be called “Harvard.”
  4. 7. Continental soldiers are quartered in Harvard buildings.
  5. 8. First Harvard Commencement with nine graduates.
  6. 9. FDR graduates.
  7. 10. The Massachusetts Constitution went into effect and officially recognized Harvard as a university.
Down
  1. 1. John Harvard wills his library (400 books) and half his estate to the College.
  2. 2. Harvard Bicentennial.
  3. 3. University Hall is completed.
  4. 4. In recognition of John Harvard’s bequest, the Great and General Court orders “that the college agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridge shall be called Harvard college."
  5. 5. Original Harvard Hall burns, destroying some 5,000 volumes and all but one of John Harvard's books.
  6. 8. Reverend Henry Dunster is appointed first president of Harvard.
  7. 9. Harvard Medical School officially opened as the “Medical Institution of Harvard University.”
  8. 10. Harvard wins first intercollegiate sports event, a boat race against Yale on Lake Winnipesaukee.