Harvard University.
London, Octoberv7. Through Miss Marie Corelli’s instrumentality an ancient. house at Stratford-on-Avon, associated with John Harvard’s mother, has been purchased by Americans and restored in every detail. - Mr Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador to Britain, opened the house.
John Harvard, clergyman in Massachussett’s colony, was the first benefactor of the Harvard University, to which he left a library of 300 books and half his estate, which was subsequently named after him. He was a son of a London butcher, and emigrated in 1637.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 9 October 1909, Page 2
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84Harvard University. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 9 October 1909, Page 2
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