74-455: This is a list of dormitories at Harvard College . Only freshmen live in these dormitories, which are located in and around Harvard Yard . Sophomores, juniors and seniors live in the House system . South of Harvard Yard on Holyoke Street, Apley Court has the most spacious rooms among the freshman dorms; accommodations include marble bathrooms. Formerly part of Adams House , it is the only one of
148-450: A combined Oxford and Cambridge team in the oldest continuous international amateur competition in the world. As with other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships . Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in the annual football meeting, which dates back to 1875 and is usually called simply " The Game ". While Harvard's football team
222-512: A fairly benign view of religion and described himself as an "aesthetic Catholic". Santayana's views on religion are outlined in his books Reason in Religion , The Idea of Christ in the Gospels , and Interpretations of Poetry and Religion . He held racial superiority and eugenic views. He believed superior races should be discouraged from "intermarriage with inferior stock". Santayana
296-477: A few plays, and left ample correspondence, much of it published only since 2000. Like Alexis de Tocqueville , Santayana observed American culture and character from a foreigner's point of view. Like William James , his friend and mentor, he wrote philosophy in a literary way. Ezra Pound includes Santayana among his many cultural references in The Cantos , notably in " Canto LXXXI" and "Canto XCV". Santayana
370-850: A hospital and convent run by the Little Company of Mary (also known as the Blue Nuns ) on the Celian Hill at 6 Via Santo Stefano Rotondo in Roma, where he was cared for by the sisters until his death in September 1952. Upon his death, he did not want to be buried in consecrated land, which made his burial problematic in Italy. Finally, the Spanish consulate in Rome agreed that he be buried in
444-418: A range of intellectual areas in parallel with pursuit of a chosen major in depth fulfills the injunction of former Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell that liberal education should produce "men who know a little of everything and something well". Some introductory courses have large enrollments, but most courses are small: the median class size is 12 students. Funding and faculty mentorship for research
518-544: A senior thesis. Harvard College students must take a course in each of four General Education categories (Aesthetics and Culture; Ethics and Civics; Histories, Societies, Individuals; Science and Technology in Society) as well as a course in each of three academic divisions (Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences; Science and Engineering and Applied Science). They must also fulfill foreign language, expository writing, and quantitative reasoning with data requirements. Exposure to
592-611: A wealthy merchant who made what was, at the time, the largest donation to Harvard in its history. Past residents include Pete Buttigieg , Al Jean , Horatio Alger Jr. , Alex Biega , David Halberstam , Christian Herter , Conan O'Brien , Sumner Redstone , Henry Hobson Richardson , Noah Welch , Cornel West , and Jeff Zucker . Another "Union" dormitory, named after Byron Hurlbut, a former Dean of Harvard College. Past notable residents include James Blake , Alice Crary , Roger W. Ferguson Jr. , Brian Greene , Amory Lovins , Roger Myerson , and Elizabeth Wurtzel . Lionel (built 1925)
666-424: A young graduate student who would later become Harvard's 21st and longest-serving president (1869–1909), bought red bandanas for his crew so they could more easily be distinguished by spectators at a regatta. Harvard has several fight songs, the most played of which, especially at football, are " Ten Thousand Men of Harvard " and " Harvardiana ". While " Fair Harvard " is actually the alma mater , "Ten Thousand Men"
740-610: Is $ 168,800, with 53% of students coming from the top 10% highest-earning families and 20% from the bottom 60%. As of 2024, Harvard College tuition was about $ 57,000 and total costs about $ 83,000. However, Harvard offers one of the most generous financial aid programs in the United States, with need-blind admission and 100% of financial need met for all students. Families with incomes below $ 85,000 pay nothing for their children to attend, while families earning up to $ 150,000 pay no more than 10% of their annual incomes. Financial aid
814-509: Is an autobiography . These works also contain many of his sharper opinions and bons mots . He wrote books and essays on a wide range of subjects, including philosophy of a less technical sort, literary criticism , the history of ideas , politics, human nature , morals, the influence of religion on culture and social psychology , all with considerable wit and humour. While his writings on technical philosophy can be difficult, his other writings are more accessible and pithy. He wrote poems and
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#1732793694588888-421: Is available in all disciplines for undergraduates at all levels. Nearly all undergraduates live on campus, for the first year in dormitories in or near Harvard Yard and later in the upperclass houses—administrative subdivisions of the college as well as living quarters, providing a sense of community in what might otherwise be a socially incohesive and administratively daunting university environment. Each house
962-682: Is better known outside the university. The Harvard University Band performs these fight songs and other cheers at football and hockey games. These were parodied by Harvard alumnus Tom Lehrer in his song " Fight Fiercely, Harvard ", which he composed while an undergraduate. By the late 19th century, critics of intercollegiate athletics, including Harvard president Charles William Eliot , believed that sports had become over-commercialized and took students away from their studies. They called for limitations on all sports. This opposition prompted Harvard's athletic committee to target "minor" sports—basketball and hockey—for reform in order to deflect attention from
1036-678: Is located along the southern edge of the Yard, between Widener Library and Boylston Hall to the north, and Massachusetts Avenue to the south. It was constructed in 1931 as "part of President Lowell's plan to enclose the Yard from the traffic of Harvard Square." Past residents include Leonard Bernstein , Melissa Block , Benjamin C. Bradlee , Mark Danner , Jared Diamond , Bill Gates , Andre Gregory , Donald P. Hodel , Michael J. Kennedy , Ted Kennedy , Aga Khan IV , John Lithgow , Robert Lowell , Christopher Nowinski , Pat Toomey , David Vitter , Naomi Yang , and Randi Zuckerberg . To accommodate
1110-517: Is located next to Johnston Gate . Designed by two Harvard Presidents, John Leverett and Benjamin Wadsworth , between 1718 and 1720 for the housing of sixty-four students, the building served various functions over the years, including a refuge for American soldiers during the Siege of Boston , and an observatory after Thomas Hollis ' donation of a twenty-four-foot telescope in 1722. Today, it houses
1184-553: Is no longer one of the best as it was in football's early days, both Harvard and Yale have influenced the way the game is played. In 1903, Harvard Stadium introduced a new era into football with the first permanent reinforced concrete stadium of its kind in the country. Even older than Harvard–Yale football rivalry, the Harvard–Yale Regatta is held each June on the Thames River in eastern Connecticut. The Harvard crew
1258-634: Is nonresidential but fulfills the administrative and social functions provided to on-campus residents by the other twelve houses for undergraduate students living in the Dudley Co-op, many of the undergraduate students living off-campus (which are small in number), and the Visiting Undergraduate Students who study at Harvard for a term or year. Harvard's residential houses are paired with Yale's residential colleges in sister relationships. The Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC)
1332-517: Is presided over by two faculty deans, while its Allston Burr Resident Dean —usually a junior faculty member—supervises undergraduates' day-to-day academic and disciplinary well-being. The faculty deans and resident dean are assisted by other members of the Senior Common Room —select graduate students (tutors), faculty, and university officials brought into voluntary association with each house. The faculty deans and resident dean reside in
1406-807: Is quoted by the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman as a central influence in the thesis of his famous book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959). Religious historian Jerome A. Stone credits Santayana with contributing to the early thinking in the development of religious naturalism . English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead quotes Santayana extensively in his magnum opus Process and Reality (1929). Chuck Jones used Santayana's description of fanaticism as "redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim" to describe his cartoons starring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner . Santayana's passing
1480-692: Is referenced in the lyrics to singer-songwriter Billy Joel 's 1989 music single, " We Didn't Start the Fire ". The quote "Only the dead have seen the end of war" is frequently attributed or misattributed to Plato ; an early example of this misattribution (if it is indeed misattributed) is found in General Douglas MacArthur 's Farewell Speech given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in 1962. Unmodernized, critical editions of George Santayana's published and unpublished writing. The Works
1554-570: Is remembered in large part for his aphorisms , many of which have been so frequently used as to have become clichéd . His philosophy has not fared quite as well. He is regarded by most as an excellent prose stylist, and John Lachs (who is sympathetic with much of Santayana's philosophy) writes, in On Santayana , that his eloquence may ironically be the very cause of this neglect. Santayana influenced those around him, including Bertrand Russell , whom Santayana single-handedly steered away from
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#17327936945881628-420: Is solely based on need; no merit or athletic scholarships are offered. The four-year, full-time undergraduate program has a liberal arts and sciences focus. To graduate in the usual four years, undergraduates normally take four courses per semester. Midway through the second year, most undergraduates join one of fifty academic majors ; many also declare a minor (secondary field). Joint majors (combining
1702-803: Is the undergraduate college of Harvard University , a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States . Part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences , Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering AB ( Bachelor of Arts ) and SB ( Bachelor of Science ) degrees. It is highly selective, with fewer than four percent of applicants being offered admission as of 2022. Harvard College students participate in over 450 extracurricular organizations and nearly all live on campus. First-year students reside in or near Harvard Yard and upperclass students reside in other on-campus housing. Harvard College
1776-530: Is typically considered to be one of the top teams in the country in rowing . Other sports in which Harvard teams are particularly strong are men's ice hockey , squash , and men's and women's fencing . Harvard's men's ice hockey team won the school's first NCAA Championship in any team sport in 1989, and Harvard also won the Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships in 2003. Harvard
1850-475: Is usually considered an American writer, although he declined to become an American citizen, resided in Fascist Italy for decades, and said that he was most comfortable, intellectually and aesthetically , at Oxford University . Although an atheist , Santayana considered himself an " aesthetic Catholic " and spent the last decade of his life in Rome under the care of Catholic nuns . In 1941, he entered
1924-493: The American Revolution . Past residents include Charles Francis Adams Sr. , John Quincy Adams , Horatio Alger Jr. , Jim Cramer , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Edward Everett , Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. , Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. , Wendell Phillips , Henry David Thoreau , George Santayana , Charles Sumner , John Updike , and William Weld . Holworthy Hall was built in 1812 and was named after Sir Matthew Holworthy,
1998-466: The Charles River : Adams , Dunster , Eliot , Kirkland , Leverett , Lowell , Mather , Quincy , and Winthrop . Their construction was financed largely by a 1928 gift from Yale alumnus Edward Harkness , who, frustrated in his attempts to initiate a similar project at his alma mater, eventually offered $ 11 million to Harvard. Construction of the first houses began in 1929, but
2072-453: The ethics of G. E. Moore . He also influenced many prominent people such as Harvard students T. S. Eliot , Robert Frost , Gertrude Stein , Horace Kallen , Walter Lippmann , W. E. B. Du Bois , Conrad Aiken , Van Wyck Brooks , Felix Frankfurter , Max Eastman , and Wallace Stevens . Stevens was especially influenced by Santayana's aesthetics and became a friend even though Stevens did not take courses taught by Santayana. Santayana
2146-437: The 1969 student takeover of University Hall , and certain features of its design were meant to confound student organizing. There is a Muslim prayer space in the basement. Residents have included Jillian Dempsey , Alexander Fällström , Charles Lane , Eduardo Saverin , Esther Lofgren , Ben Mezrich , David Sacks , Mira Sorvino , and Paul Wylie . Opened in 1863, Grays became the college's first building with water taps in
2220-555: The Campo di Verano, Rome. As a philosopher, Santayana is known for aphorisms , such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and "Only the dead have seen the end of war", and his definition of beauty as " Pleasure objectified ". Although an atheist , Santayana valued the culture of the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview, in which he was raised. As an intellectual , George Santayana
2294-659: The Gold Coast apartment buildings – luxurious private apartments built south of the Yard in the late 1890s – to now be a freshman dormitory. Notable residents have included T. S. Eliot . Completed in 1974, Canaday Hall is the newest dormitory in Harvard Yard . Seen from the air, its seven buildings resemble a question mark. It is named after Ward M. Canaday, former president and major shareholder of Willys , manufacturer of Jeeps during World War II . Canaday's construction immediately followed
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2368-572: The Manila firm Russell & Sturgis. She had five children with him; two of them died in infancy. She lived in Boston for a few years following her husband's death in 1857; in 1861, she moved with her three surviving children to Madrid. There she encountered Agustín Ruiz de Santayana, an old friend from her years in the Philippines. They married in 1862. A colonial civil servant , Ruiz de Santayana
2442-556: The Oxford and Cambridge model, which would eventually constitute a university, though no further colleges materialized in colonial era. The Indian College was active from 1640 to no later than 1693, but it was a minor addition not operated in federation with Harvard according to the English model. Harvard began granting higher degrees in the late eighteenth century, and it was increasingly styled Harvard University, even as Harvard College
2516-647: The Pantheon of the Obra Pía Española, in the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome. Santayana's main philosophical work consists of The Sense of Beauty (1896), his first book-length monograph and perhaps the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States; The Life of Reason (5 vols., 1905–06), the high point of his Harvard career; Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923); and The Realms of Being (4 vols., 1927–1940). Although Santayana
2590-607: The Union Dormitories, Pennypacker is named for Henry Pennypacker, a former president of Harvard's admissions committee. The studios of radio station WHRB (95.3 FM) are in the basement. Past residents include Kristin Goss , Hendrik Hertzberg , Nicholas Kristof , Bjorn Poonen , Peter Sagal , Andrew Tobias , Chris Wallace , and Fernando Zobel de Ayala . Stoughton Hall (built 1805) is Harvard's second building to be named Stoughton Hall. Designed by Charles Bulfinch , it
2664-466: The assembled land transferred to Harvard. The three Quad Houses enjoy a residential setting half a mile northwest of Harvard Yard. These were built by Radcliffe College and housed Radcliffe College students until the Harvard and Radcliffe residential systems merged in 1977. They are: Cabot , Currier , and Pforzheimer House . A thirteenth house, Dudley Community, formerly called Dudley House ,
2738-684: The basement. (Residents of other buildings in Harvard Yard had to haul water from pumps in the Yard.) Nicknamed "The Harvard Hilton", it is considered the most luxurious dormitory in the Yard. Past residents include Jeff Bingaman , Rosa Brooks , Charles Joseph Bonaparte , Michael Cohrs , Jeremy Doner , Ryan Fitzpatrick , Langdon Gilkey , Charles Grier Sellers , Swinburne Hale , Julie Hilden , Marcial Lichauco , Norman Mailer , Malia Obama , Natalie Portman , Joseph Ransohoff , Frank Rich , Mo Rocca , Joshua Sharfstein , Don Sweeney , John Weidman , and Michael Weishan . Located just outside
2812-471: The case (which has since been appealed) found no evidence of explicit racial bias but did not rule out a small amount of implicit bias . Harvard has implemented more implicit bias training for its admissions staff in accordance with the court's recommendations. In addition, Harvard's admissions preference for children of alumni , employees, and donors has been criticized as favoring white and wealthy candidates. The median family income of Harvard students
2886-503: The colonial period." The University of Oxford and University of Cambridge , two of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the English-speaking world , have long been structured with individual colleges as part of the larger university and with each college including an association of scholars that shared room and board. Harvard's founders may have envisioned it as the first in a series of sibling colleges replicating
2960-756: The conditions present in their environment. Their value may then be adjudged by the extent to which they facilitate human happiness. The alternate title to The Life of Reason , "the Phases of Human Progress", is indicative of this metaphysical stance. Santayana was an early adherent of epiphenomenalism , but also admired the classical materialism of Democritus and Lucretius . (Of the three authors on whom he wrote in Three Philosophical Poets , Santayana speaks most favorably of Lucretius). He held Spinoza 's writings in high regard, calling him his "master and model". Although an atheist , he held
3034-557: The confines of Harvard Yard, Greenough is part of a group of dormitories outside the Yard called the "Union Dormitories". Past notable residents include Elliott Abrams , Bill Kristol , Wallace Shawn , Laurence Tribe , Kyriakos Mitsotakis , and Colin Jost . Built in 1763 by Thomas Dawes and named for Thomas Hollis and his family, Hollis is one of the oldest buildings at Harvard (after only Massachusetts Hall (1720) and Holden Chapel (1744)), and housed George Washington's troops during
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3108-702: The enrollment of recipients of the National Merit $ 2,500 Scholarship ; it enrolled 207 such scholars in the Class of 2022. Harvard College ended its early admissions program in 2007, but for the class of 2016 and beyond, an early action program was reintroduced. The freshman class that entered in the fall of 2017 was the first to be majority (50.8%) nonwhite. A federal lawsuit alleges that Harvard's admissions policies discriminate against Asian Americans, who tend to be overrepresented among students with high academic achievement. A 2019 district court decision in
3182-483: The entire university. Radcliffe College , established in 1879, originally paid Harvard faculty to repeat their lectures for women. Since the 1970s, Harvard has been responsible for undergraduate matters for women, though women's Harvard diplomas were countersigned by the President of Radcliffe until a final merger in 1999. Admission is based on academic prowess, extracurricular activities, and personal qualities. For
3256-447: The house, as do resident tutors. Terms like tutor, Senior Common Room, and Junior Common Room reflect a debt to the constituent college systems at Oxford and Cambridge from which Harvard's system took inspiration. The houses were created by President Lowell in the 1930s to combat what he saw as pernicious social stratification engendered by the private, off-campus living arrangements of many undergraduates at that time. Lowell's solution
3330-566: The land on which they were built had been assembled decades before. After graduating from Harvard in 1895, Edward W. Forbes found himself inspired by the Oxford and Cambridge systems during two years of study in England; on returning to the United States he set out to acquire the land between Harvard Yard and the Charles River that was not already owned by Harvard or an associated entity. By 1918, that ambition had been largely fulfilled and
3404-771: The major sports: football, baseball, track, and crew. The committee made it difficult for the basketball team to operate by denying financial assistance and limiting the number of overnight away games in which the team could participate. Harvard has more than 450 undergraduate student organizations. The Phillips Brooks House Association acts as an umbrella service organization. George Santayana Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Defunct George Santayana (b. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás , December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
3478-438: The offices of Harvard's president, with a handful of freshmen living on the uppermost floor. Five of the United States' Founding Fathers lived here: John Adams , John Hancock , Samuel Adams , Elbridge Gerry , and James Otis Jr. Other residents have included Zabdiel Adams , John Harbison , Alan Jay Lerner , John Redcliffe-Maud , Elliot Richardson , Jared Sparks , Jones Very , and Edward Wigglesworth . Matthews Hall
3552-469: The original "draft" system, masters (now called "faculty deans") negotiated privately over the assignment of students. From the 1960s to the mid-1990s, each student ranked the houses according to personal preference, with a lottery resolving the oversubscription of more popular houses. Today, groups of one to eight freshmen form a block which is then assigned, essentially at random, to an upperclass house. The nine "River Houses" are south of Harvard Yard, near
3626-766: The requirements of two majors) and special majors (of the student's own design) are also possible. Most majors lead to the Artium Baccalaureus (AB). Some award the Scientiae Baccalaureus (SB). There are also dual degree programs permitting students to earn both a Harvard AB and a Master of Music (MM) from either the New England Conservatory of Music or the Berklee College of Music over five years. In most majors, an honors degree requires advanced coursework and/or
3700-515: The rest of his life. Jorge did not see him again until he entered Harvard College and began to take his summer vacations in Spain. Sometime during this period, Jorge's first name was anglicized to its English equivalent: George. Santayana attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College , where he studied under the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce and was involved in eleven clubs. He
3774-500: The sinking of the RMS Titanic . Notable residents include Darren Aronofsky , Phil Bredesen , William S. Burroughs , Peter Chiarelli , Seth Goldman , Joseph Lelyveld , Soledad O'Brien , Tom Ridge , John Roberts , David Souter , Caspar Weinberger , Tim Wirth , and Mark Zuckerberg . Thayer was built in 1870 and originally offered housing to students who had trouble affording the ever-increasing prices of housing outside
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#17327936945883848-718: The spring of his senior year. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in 1886 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa . in 1886, Santayana studied for two years in Berlin . He then returned to Harvard to write his dissertation on Hermann Lotze (1889). He was a professor at Harvard from 1889 to 1912, becoming part of the Golden Age of The Harvard University Department of Philosophy . Some of his Harvard students became famous in their own right, including Conrad Aiken , W. E. B. Du Bois , T. S. Eliot , Robert Frost , Horace Kallen , Walter Lippmann and Gertrude Stein . Wallace Stevens
3922-544: The undergraduate class of 2025, Harvard had 57,435 applications and accepted 1,968 (3.4% acceptance rate). For the undergraduate class of 2023, the middle 50% range of SAT scores of enrolled freshmen was 710–770 for reading and writing and 750–800 for math, while the middle 50% range of the ACT composite score was 33–35. The average high school grade point average ( GPA ) was 4.18. The acceptance rate for transfer students has been approximately 1%. Harvard consistently ranks first in
3996-505: The university. Past notable residents include James Agee , Bill Ackman , Conrad Aiken , Steve Ballmer , Virgilio Barco Isakson , Andy Borowitz , Hamzah bin al Hussein , E. E. Cummings , Roy J. Glauber , Walter Isaacson , Ji Chaozhu , Perri Klass , Bernard Francis Law , John F. Manning , Crown Princess Masako , Jonathan Mostow , Gabe Newell , Arthur Schlesinger Jr. , Edward Seaga , Jonathan Taylor Thomas , James Tobin , Stephanie Wilson , and Owen Wister . Built in 1870, Weld
4070-457: The unusually large freshman class in the 2021–22 academic year, Harvard College housed first-year students in that year in several additional university-owned buildings: apartments at 20–20A and 22–24 Prescott Street, apartments at 10 DeWolfe Street, and The Inn at 1201 Massachusetts Ave. These are collectively termed "Maple Yard", one of the several smaller "Yards" into which first-year dorms are organized. Harvard College Harvard College
4144-477: Was Nathaniel Eaton (1610–1674); in 1639, he also became its first instructor to be dismissed, for overstrict discipline. The school's first students were graduated in 1642. The Harvard Indian College was established, with the capacity for four or five Native Americans, and in 1665 Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck ( c. 1643 –1666) "from the Wampanoag … did graduate from Harvard, the first Indian to do so in
4218-532: Was a Spanish-American philosopher , essayist , poet , and novelist . Born in Spain , Santayana was raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight and identified as an American, yet always retained a valid Spanish passport . At the age of 48, he left his academic position at Harvard University and permanently returned to Europe; his last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon in
4292-528: Was a broad-range cultural critic in several academic disciplines. George Santayana was born on December 16, 1863, in Calle de San Bernardo of Madrid and spent his early childhood in Ávila , Spain. His mother Josefina Borrás was the daughter of a Spanish official in the Philippines and he was the only child of her second marriage. Josefina Borrás' first husband was George Sturgis, a Boston merchant with
4366-617: Was a painter and minor intellectual . The family lived in Madrid and Ávila, and Jorge was born in Spain in 1863. In 1869, Josefina Borrás de Santayana returned to Boston with her three Sturgis children, because she had promised her first husband to raise the children in the US. She left the six-year-old Jorge with his father in Spain. Jorge and his father followed her to Boston in 1872. His father, finding neither Boston nor his wife's attitude to his liking, soon returned alone to Ávila, and remained there
4440-636: Was built by Thomas Dawes . The original Stoughton Hall was built in 1700 and funded by Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton , who also presided over the Salem witch trials . Past residents include Francis Parkman , Philippe de Montebello , Trip Hawkins , Jeremy Lin , Eric Maskin , Mehmet Oz , Nathan Pusey , Sydney Schanberg , and Edmund Ware Sinnott . Straus was built in 1926 by three brothers in memory of their parents, Isidor and Ida Straus , New York department store entrepreneurs who owned both Macy's and Abraham & Straus and died in
4514-597: Was designed by Peabody & Stearns and built from 1871–1872. Past notable residents include Philip Warren Anderson , Danny Biega , Matt Birk , Matt Damon , John Dos Passos , Maura Healey , Barney Frank , William Randolph Hearst , Mark Penn , Daniel Quillen , Robert Rubin , Chuck Schumer , Lloyd Shapley , Maurice Wertheim , and Elizabeth Wurtzel . Past residents include Timothy Crouse , Al Franken , Al Gore , Edward Gorey , Tommy Lee Jones , Arthur Kopit , Charles Murray , Thomas Oliphant , Meredith Salenger , Tanya Selvaratnam , and Bob Somerby . Part of
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#17327936945884588-447: Was financially comfortable, in part because his 1935 novel, The Last Puritan , had become an unexpected best-seller. In turn, he financially assisted a number of writers, including Bertrand Russell , with whom he was in fundamental disagreement, philosophically and politically. Santayana's one novel, The Last Puritan , is a Bildungsroman , centering on the personal growth of its protagonist , Oliver Alden. His Persons and Places
4662-608: Was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony . Two years later, the college became home to North America's first known printing press , carried by the ship John of London . In 1639 the college (heretofore unnamed) was named Harvard College in honor of deceased Charlestown minister John Harvard (1607–1638) who had bequeathed to the school his entire library and half of his monetary estate. Harvard's first Headmaster
4736-672: Was founder and president of the Philosophical Club, a member of the literary society known as the O.K., an editor and cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon , he joined one of Harvard's "Final CLubs - the Delphic Club and co-founder of the literary journal The Harvard Monthly . In December, 1885, he played the role of Lady Elfrida in the Hasty Pudding theatrical Robin Hood , followed by the production Papillonetta in
4810-532: Was given by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell as a memorial to Lionel de Jersey Harvard , the first relative of John Harvard to attend Harvard, and who was killed in World War I. Past residents include Peter Benchley , Lou Dobbs , Kevin Kallaugher , Grover Norquist , Endicott Peabody , and Erich Segal . The oldest surviving building at Harvard and the country's oldest dormitory, Massachusetts Hall
4884-565: Was increasingly thought of as the university's undergraduate division in particular. Harvard College is currently responsible for undergraduate admissions, advising, housing, student life, athletics, and other undergraduate matters except instruction, which is the purview of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences . The body known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College retains its traditional name despite having governance of
4958-417: Was not a pragmatist in the mold of William James , Charles Sanders Peirce , Josiah Royce , or John Dewey , The Life of Reason arguably is the first extended treatment of pragmatism written. Like many of the classical pragmatists, Santayana was committed to metaphysical naturalism . He believed that human cognition , cultural practices, and social institutions have evolved so as to harmonize with
5032-419: Was not among his students but became a friend. From 1896 to 1897, Santayana studied at King's College, Cambridge . Santayana never married. His romantic life, if any, is not well understood. Some evidence, including a comment Santayana made late in life comparing himself to A. E. Housman , and his friendships with people who were openly homosexual and bisexual , has led scholars to speculate that Santayana
5106-787: Was perhaps homosexual or bisexual, but it remains unclear whether he had any actual heterosexual or homosexual relationships. In 1912, Santayana resigned his position at Harvard to spend the rest of his life in Europe. He had saved money and been aided by a legacy from his mother. After some years in Ávila , Paris and Oxford , after 1920, he began to winter in Rome , eventually living there year-round until his death. During his 40 years in Europe, he wrote 19 books and declined several prestigious academic positions. Many of his visitors and correspondents were Americans, including his assistant and eventual literary executor, Daniel Cory . In later life, Santayana
5180-462: Was popular during the same period. Past residents include Robert Bacon , Ben Bernanke , Michael Crichton , Christopher Durang , Daniel Ellsberg , Douglas J. Feith , Fred Grandy , Lionel de Jersey Harvard , Rashida Jones , John F. Kennedy , Douglas Kenney , Michael Kinsley , Neil H. McElroy , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Patrick Harlan and Scott Weinger . The second largest of the freshman dormitories, and actually three buildings, Wigglesworth
5254-463: Was the first Ivy League school to win an NCAA Championship in a women's sport when its women's lacrosse team won in 1990. The school color is crimson , which is also the name of Harvard's sports teams and the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson . The color was unofficially adopted (in preference to magenta ) by an 1875 vote of the student body, although the association with some form of red can be traced back to 1858, when Charles William Eliot ,
5328-533: Was the second of two important additions to the Harvard campus designed by Ware & Van Brunt (the first being Memorial Hall ). It was a gift of William Fletcher Weld , in memory of his brother Stephen Minot Weld , and represented a new trend toward picturesque silhouettes that became important in American domestic architecture of the later nineteenth century, as can be seen in the Queen Anne style which
5402-581: Was the student government of Harvard College until it was abolished by a student referendum in 2022. It was replaced by the Harvard Undergraduate Association (HUA). The Harvard Crimson fields 42 intercollegiate sports teams in the NCAA Division I Ivy League , more than any other NCAA Division I college in the country. Every two years, the Harvard and Yale track and field teams come together to compete against
5476-535: Was to provide every man—Harvard was male-only at the time—with on-campus accommodations throughout his time at the college; Lowell also saw great benefits in other features of the house system, such as the relaxed discussions—academic or otherwise—which he hoped would take place among undergraduates and members of the Senior Common Room over meals in each house's dining hall. How students come to live in particular houses has changed greatly over time. Under
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