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Harvard, town (1990 pop. 12,329), Worcester co., E central Mass.; inc. 1732. A Shaker house and cemetery, a Native American museum, and a Harvard observatory are there. A museum on the site of Fruitlands, a cooperative vegetarian community founded by Bronson Alcott Alcott, Bronson (ôl`kət, ăl–, –kŏt), 1799–1888, American educational and social reformer, b. ..... Click the link for more information. , is in the area. Nearby Fort Devens closed in 1996. Harvard the first American college (1636). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1200] See : Firsts How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Rare book dealer Peter Fallon gets caught up in a quest to find "a gift of majestic proportions," a book donated to Harvard College by John Harvard. But immediately afterward, Harry Wu, the Chinese dissident who spent nearly two decades as a political prisoner, is to speak at the base of the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard. During 1963-1964 he was the John Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. |
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