HARVARD UNIVERSITY
COMMEMORATION OF ENGLISH BENEFACTOR. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, September 16. An exhibition was opened at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to-day to commemorate the tercentenary of the foundation of Harvard University, in the United States of America.
Harvard takes its name from its first great benefactor, John Harvard, whose home in Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, is now the property of the university. Harvard was a graduate of Cambridge University.
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Southland Times, Issue 22998, 18 September 1936, Page 7
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