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Harvar University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America.

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  • This U.S. university was founded October 28, 1636
  • Encarta says this Massachusetts school has the largest private endowment of any university in the world
  • You can get you sheepskin at this Cambridge university whose "yahd" once held grazing sheep
  • The term "campus" began at Princeton to distinguish its grounds from this school's "yard"
  • It's the university where you'll find the John F. Kennedy School of Government
  • Conan O'Brien sharpened his comedy skills at this university by writing for its famous Lampoon
  • The poker face seen here dropped out of this university just short of a degree to pursue a career in acting
  • You'll find the John F. Kennedy School of Government at this Ivy League university, JFK's alma mater
  • This U.S. university performs its Hasty Pudding theatricals in Bermuda during "College Weeks" in March & April
  • This Cambridge, Mass. university is named for a man who graduated from England's Cambridge Univ. in the 1630s
  • Application: $65Tuition: $32,557Dropping this Cambridge, Mass. school's name for the rest of your life: priceless
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the surgery simulation room at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.) Doctors get invaluable training on the Human Patient Simulator at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of this medical school founded in 1782
  • (Judge Hatchett delivers the clue from her TV courtroom.) In the 1870s this Ivy League school pioneered the case method of teaching law, which is still used today
  • Al Gore & Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at this Ivy League school
  • A Yale song goes "Boola, Boola Boola...when we roughhouse" this school "they will holler Boola Boo"
  • It has the largest private endowment of any university in the world
  • This college, the oldest in the U.S., was founded in 1636 as Newtowne College
  • Author & scholar Ruth R. Wisse is the 1st person to teach Yiddish literature at the Cambridge, Mass. university
  • 1995 marked the 200th anniversary of this university's Hasty Pudding Club
  • I revel in the history of this Ivy League school, founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims
  • In 1639 the Court of Massachusetts ordered that "The Colledge...to bee built at Cambridg" be called this
  • While attending this school, FDR was editor of its newspaper, The Crimson
  • In 1640 Henry Dunster became this university's first president; he was also the entire faculty
  • Founded in 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club is famed for its theatricals at this university
  • This school's Hasty Pudding Club has been presenting its Woman of the Year Award since 1951
  • Father was quite the cutup in Prof. Charles Fried's class at this Massachusetts law school founded in 1817
  • The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is at this Cambridge, Massachusetts institution
  • Due to a fire in 1764, few books exist from its original library established around 1638
  • For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, this university received a record $680 million in donations
  • In 1966 this university's Public Policy program became the Kennedy School of Government
  • Emerson's "American Scholar" was an oration to the Phi Beta Kappa society of this school, his alma mater
  • During the 1870s a new method of teaching law, the case method, was developed at this Cambridge, Mass. university
  • This university's first scholarship fund was created in 1643 with a gift from Ann Radcliffe
  • The Transcendental Club began as a reaction to this U.S. college's 1836 bicentennial celebration
  • Our first honorary degree was bestowed in 1692 when this college awarded a doctorate to Increase Mather
  • One of its clubs gives out the Hasty Pudding Award
  • Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at this Cambridge, Mass. university
  • In the musical "Legally Blonde", blonde ambition takes Elle Woods all the way to this university's law school
  • The John F. Kennedy School of Government, on John F. Kennedy Street, is a graduate school of this university
  • This Ivy League university has been turning out its "Crimson" newspaper since 1873
  • Logician Saul Kripke said he refused a job offer from this Camb, Mass. Univ,: his mom wanted him to finish H.S.
  • To tell the veritas, John did a lousy job as treasurer of this college, his alma mater
  • The Mass. Bay Colony named this college for a man who gifted half his 1,600-pound estate & 400 books
  • No way! Free tuition for a year to this Mass. college that had its 370th anniversary in 2006? Bargain!
  • Now a prestigious musical group, the glee club of this Boston-area school began in 1858 basically as a social club
  • JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
  • In 2007 Drew Gilpin Faust became the first female president in this university's 371-year history
  • In 1817 the first U.S. university law school was established near the Charles River at this school
  • It's the only college or university in the U.S. that was founded more than 360 years ago
  • Its school color is crimson, & that's the veritas
  • Robert Langdon is a professor of religious symbology at this Ivy League university
  • It shares facilities with Radcliffe College for Women
  • Children's Hospital in Boston is the primary pediatric teaching hospital of this university
  • This Ivy League school has 2 major art museums: the Fogg & the Sackler
  • The East Coast school where he got his B.A. in 1969
  • Obama entered this university's law school in 1988 & graduated magna cum laude in '91
  • (Hi, I'm Scott Turow.) My memoir "One L" tells "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at" this law school
  • The Fogg, Busch-Reisinger & Arthur M. Sackler Art Museums belong to this New England university
  • In 1701 Increase Mather saw a decrease in his workload: he was removed as president of this college
  • In 1755 John Adams graduated from this school, 14th in a class of 24, reflecting his social standing, not grades

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