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| x B. F. Skinner |
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in...
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| x Amartya Sen |
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Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (Bengali : অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন, Ômorto Kumar Shen) (born 3 November 1933) is the sole receipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on welfare economics. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont...
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| x Charles William Eliot |
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Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term...
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| x Lawrence Summers |
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Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy...
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| x Increase Mather |
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Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the...
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| x Richard Herrnstein |
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Richard J. Herrnstein (May 20, 1930 – September 13, 1994) was an American researcher in animal learning in the Skinnerian tradition. He was one of the founders of quantitative analysis of behavior. His major research finding as an experimental...
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| x Edward Everett |
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Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United...
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| x Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts |
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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le Corbusier in the United States, and one of only two in the Americas (the other is the Curutchet House in La Plata,...
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| x James Bryant Conant |
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James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As the President of Harvard University he reformed it as a research institution.
Conant was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts...
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| x Henry Dunster |
Henry Dunster (baptized November 26, 1609, died February 27, 1658/1659) was an Anglo-American Puritan clergyman and the first president of Harvard College. He was born at Bolholt, Bury, Lancashire, England to Henry Dunster Sr. (1582–1626) and Isabel...
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| x Abbott Lawrence Lowell |
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943) was a U.S. educator, historian, and President of Harvard University (1909–33).
Abbott's siblings included poet Amy Lowell, astronomer Percival Lowell (Harvard 1876), and early activist for...
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| x John Thornton Kirkland |
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John Thornton Kirkland (August 17, 1770 – April 26, 1840) served as President of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828. A minister like many of his predecessors, he is remembered chiefly for his lenient treatment of students. Kirkland House, one of...
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| x Nathaniel Eaton |
Nathaniel Eaton (1610–1674) was the first schoolmaster of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later became a clergyman.
The sixth son of Rev. Richard Eaton (1565–1616) and Elizabeth Shepheard (1569–1636), Nathaniel was christened...
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| x Widener Library |
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The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, commonly known as Widener Library, is the primary building of the library system of Harvard University. Located on the south side of Harvard Yard directly across from Memorial Church, Widener serves as the...
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| x Neil Leon Rudenstine |
Neil Leon Rudenstine (born January 21, 1935) is an American educator, literary scholar, and administrator. He served as president of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001.
Rudenstine grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, where he attended the Wooster...
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| x Samuel Locke |
Samuel Locke (November 23, 1731 – January 15, 1778) was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Sherborn, Massachusetts, he was appointed president of Harvard University. He held that post from 1770 to 1773 when he...
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| x Urian Oakes |
Urian Oakes (1631 – July 25, 1681) was an American (English-born) educator. He served as acting president of Harvard University between 1675 and 1680. He then served as president of Harvard University from 1680 to 1681.
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| x Derek Bok |
Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University.
Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954),...
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| x Nathan M. Pusey |
Nathan Marsh Pusey (4 April 1907–14 November 2001) was a prominent American university educator.
Pusey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa to John and Rosa Pusey. He was educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1928, M.A., 1932, Ph.D., 1937), where he...
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| x Thomas Hill |
Thomas Hill (1818 – 1891) was an American Unitarian clergyman and educator. He was president of Antioch College from 1860 to 1862, and then of Harvard University from 1862 to 1868.
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| x Leonard Hoar |
Leonard Hoar (1630 – November 28, 1675) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1650, and later studied medicine at Cambridge University. He occupied various ecclesiastical positions in England...
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| x Charles Chauncy |
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Charles Chauncy (November 5, 1592 – February 19, 1672) was an Anglo-American clergyman and educator. He was born at Yardleybury (Ardeley), Hertfordshire, England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later was a lecturer in Greek....
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| x Cornelius Conway Felton |
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Cornelius Conway Felton (November 6, 1807 – February 26, 1862) was an American educator. He was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature and president of Harvard University.
Felton was born in West Newbury,...
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| x Harvard Stadium |
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Harvard Stadium is a horseshoe-shaped football stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Built in 1903, the stadium seats 30,323. The stadium seated up to 57,166 in the past, as temporary steel stands ...
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| x John Rogers |
John Rogers (January 11, 1630 – July 12, 1684) was an early American academic. He was born in Coggeshall, Essex, England and came to New England with his father Nathaniel Rogers in 1636. In 1660 he married Elizabeth Denison of Ipswich. He was...
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| x John Leverett the Younger |
John Leverett (August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724) son of Hudson Leverett, an attorney, and Sarah (Payton) Leverett, (and grandson of John Leverett the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony). He was an early American lawyer, politician, and educator....
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| x Benjamin Wadsworth |
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Benjamin Wadsworth (February 28, 1670 – March 16, 1737) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was trained at Harvard College (B.A., 1690; M.A., 1693) and served as president of that academic institution from 1725 until his death....
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| x Edward Holyoke |
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Edward Holyoke (June 26, 1689 – June 1, 1769) was an early American clergyman, and the 9th President of Harvard College.
Edward Holyoke was the son of a wealthy and influential businessman, Elizur Holyoke Jr, who held several local town offices and...
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| x Samuel Langdon |
Samuel Langdon (January 12, 1723 – November 29, 1797) was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was appointed president of Harvard University in 1774. He held that post until 1780....
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| x Joseph Willard |
Joseph Willard (December 29, 1738 – September 25, 1804) was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and academic. He was educated at the Dummer Academy (now known as The Governor's Academy) and Harvard College (B.A., 1765; M.A., 1768) and served as pastor...
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| x Samuel Webber |
Samuel Webber (1759 - July 17, 1810) was an American clergyman, mathematician, and academic.
Webber was educated at Dummer Academy (now known as The Governor's Academy) and Harvard College (B.A., 1784; M.A., 1787) where he distinguished himself in...
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| x Jared Sparks |
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Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 - March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853.
Born in Willington, Connecticut, Sparks studied in the common schools, worked...
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| x Dunster House |
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Dunster House, built in 1930, is one of the first two Harvard University dormitories constructed under President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's House Plan, and one of the seven Houses given to Harvard by Edward Harkness. In the early days, room rents...
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| x Kirkland House |
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Kirkland House is one of the 12 undergraduate houses at Harvard University, located near the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was named after John Thornton Kirkland, president of Harvard University from 1810 to 1828. Some of the...
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| x Pforzheimer House |
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Pforzheimer House, nicknamed PfoHo (FOE-hoe) (and formerly named North House or NoHo), is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It was named in 1995 for Carol K. and Carl H. Pforzheimer, major University benefactors,...
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| x Mather House |
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Mather House is one of the undergraduate residential houses at Harvard University. Built in 1971, its house masters are Sandra Nadaff and Leigh Hafrey. Mather is known for large single rooms and common rooms, and its nineteen-story concrete tower...
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Thayer Hall is one of the largest freshman dormitories on Harvard Yard. It was at times the home of American actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hamzah bin al Hussein of Jordan, as well as Steve Ballmer, E. E. Cummings,...
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| x Eliot House |
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Eliot House is one of twelve residential houses for upperclassmen at Harvard University. Opened in 1931, the house was named after Charles William Eliot, who served as president of the university for forty years (1869-1909). The architectural style...
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| x Leverett House |
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Leverett House is the largest (by number of students) of twelve residence houses for upperclass undergraduates (who have already completed their first year) at Harvard University. It is situated along the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge...
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| x Winthrop House |
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John Winthrop House is one of twelve undergraduate residences at Harvard College and home to slightly under 400 students.
Commonly referred to as Winthrop House, it consists of two buildings, Standish Hall and Gore Hall. Both were built in 1912 as...
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| x Cabot House |
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Cabot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. Cabot House derives from the merger in 1970 of South and East House, which took the name South House (also known as "SoHo"), until the name was changed and the...
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| x Currier House |
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Currier House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Opened in September 1970, it is named after Audrey Bruce Currier, a member of the Radcliffe College Class of 1956 who, along with...
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| x Lowell House |
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Lowell House is one of the twelve undergraduate residential houses at Harvard University for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Built in 1930 as part of Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's drive to provide housing for all Harvard students, it...
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| x Fogg Art Museum |
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Opened to the public in 1896, the Fogg Museum is the oldest of Harvard University's art museums. The Fogg joins the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum as part of the Harvard Art Museum.
The museum was originally housed in an...
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| x Quincy House |
Quincy House may refer to:
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| x Adolphus Busch Hall |
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Adolphus Busch Hall is a Harvard University building located at 29 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named for brewer and philanthropist Adolphus Busch, former president of the Anheuser-Busch company, who contributed $265,000 to its...
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| x Holworthy Hall |
Holworthy Hall is one of the dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard College. It is located in Harvard Yard. Housing three entryways, it is the closest dorm to the Science center.
Holworthy was founded in 1812 after a wealthy merchant,...
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| x Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University |
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Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College, the first institution of higher learning in the English colonies in America, and second oldest academic building in the United States after the Wren Building. As such, it...
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| x Matthews Hall |
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Matthews Hall is one of the dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard College. It is located in the southwest portion of Harvard Yard. It was constructed in 1871 at a cost of $115,000.
Past residents include Matt Damon (who lived in what is...
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| x Stoughton Hall |
Stoughton Hall Designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1804 is one of the dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard College. It is located in Harvard Yard. The rooms are spacious doubles, housing a mix of interests and nationalities.
Past residents...
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| x Straus Hall |
Straus Hall is one of the undergraduate dormitories housing first-year students at Harvard University. It is located in Harvard Yard.
Three Harvard brothers built Straus Hall to commemorate their parents, Isidor Straus and Ida Straus, who died on...
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| x Josiah Quincy III |
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Josiah Quincy III (February 4, 1772 – July 1, 1864 and pronounced /ˈkwɪnzi/) was a U.S. educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805–1813), Mayor of Boston (1823–1828), and President of Harvard University...
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| x James Walker |
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James Walker (August 16, 1794 – December 23, 1874) was the President of Harvard College from 1853 to 1860.
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| x Adams House |
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Adams House is one of the twelve undergraduate houses at Harvard University, located between Harvard Square and the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Named to commemorate John Adams, the second president of the United States, John Quincy...
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| x Samuel Willard |
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Reverend Samuel Willard (January 31, 1640-September 12, 1707) was a Colonial clergyman. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1659; and was minister at Groton from 1663 to 1676, whence he was driven by the Indians during...
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| x Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology |
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The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Founded in 1866, it is one of the oldest and most renowned museums focusing on anthropological material, and is particularly...
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| x Marc Hauser |
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Marc D. Hauser (25 October 1959) is an evolutionary biologist who teaches at the Psychology Department at Harvard University.
He received a BS from Bucknell University and a PhD from UCLA. Currently, Hauser is a Harvard College Professor, and...
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| x Apley Court |
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Apley Court is a freshman dormitory at Harvard College. It was built in 1897. Located just south of Harvard Yard, the dormitory was once part of the "Gold Coast" of accommodations occupied by the wealthy elite students of Harvard University. Apley...
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| x Eliphalet Pearson |
Eliphalet Pearson U.S. educator; 1st principal of Phillips Academy 1778-1786; acting president of Harvard University 1804-1806.
Pearson graduated from Harvard in 1773 after having attended Dummer Charity School (now known as The Governor's Academy)....
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| x The Class of 1959 Chapel |
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The Class of 1959 Chapel is a non-denominational chapel located on the campus of Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by Moshe Safdie in 1992, as part of a master plan to complement the existing 1927 campus...
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