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60-548: The building was later the home of the private Stearns Academy until the 1930s, and was then used until the 1980s for the town's public school through grade 6. Now known as the McCollom Building , it is used for town offices and its police station. In the 1840s, citizens of Mont Vernon wanted higher education for their children in the town, and in 1848 the Center District voted to build a new schoolhouse for

120-526: A 9-hole golf course, and Stearns Pond, which was used for ice hockey. Enrollment peaked at 47 pupils, but according to the 1958 edition of the "History of Mont Vernon," it declined sharply after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 . Without an endowment fund to make up for lost tuition, the history said, "continued operation became impossible and closure was enforced in September, 1937." The building

180-450: 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

240-580: A graduate of Bowdoin who had been an assistant to Welch, and Chapin carried on teaching until the summer of 1899. There was no school from 1900 to 1901. In September 1901, the Rev. H. P. Peck, pastor of the Congregational church , was employed as principal, for five hundred dollars a year, but at the end of the year the trustees were concerned that this did not provide full high school privileges, so that parents could send their children to any high school in

300-408: A notable philanthropist. In 1853, when a bigger schoolhouse was planned, William Appleton gave the school a library worth $ 700, equivalent to $ 25,637 in 2023, while Samuel gave $ 500 towards the cost of the new building, the biggest single donation, equivalent to $ 18,312 in 2023. In 1855, William gave another $ 100. A visiting committee of notable people from Mont Vernon and the surrounding towns

360-418: 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

420-436: A reunion of alumni was held at the school, including a dinner with speeches in the afternoon and a promenade concert in the evening, attended by George Stevens, described as the school's first principal, who presided; two other former principals, the Rev. Agustus Berry, who made a speech, and the Rev. C. F. P. Bancroft, who read a poem; the new principal, the Rev. W. H. Cutler, who made a speech; George A. Marden , an alumnus, who

480-499: A rich man born on a farm near Mont Vernon, gave the school $ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 254,333 in 2023) in memory of his late wife, Mary Ann Stevens, a niece of William Appleton born in the town, and the school was renamed as the McCollom Institute. A colonnaded porch and porte-cochère were added to the school building, and by 1873/74, numbers were back up to 86, with an average student age of eighteen. On 27 August 1872,

540-473: A rich man born on a farm near Mont Vernon, gave the school $ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 254,333 in 2023) in memory of his late wife, Mary Ann Stevens, a niece of William Appleton. The school was renamed the McCollom Institute . A colonnaded porch and porte-cochère were added to the building and by 1873, attendance was back up to eighty-six, with an average student age of eighteen. In April, 1879,

600-505: A school in Maine . For the next two years, 1904–06, Henry W. Delano, a Dartmouth graduate, was principal, with Dr Clarence H. Hallowell as his assistant. Hallowell left in January 1906, and was replaced by Miss Annie Hazeu, an advanced pupil. However, by now the number of students had fallen to only eleven, and the trustees took the decision to discontinue the school. A local source states that

660-544: 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

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720-518: A special meeting of the Trustees held in Boston decided to replace the then-schoolmaster, Professor J. B. Welch, with G. Wilbert Cox, a recent graduate of Harvard , and he stayed for three years, with his wife, Mrs. E. D. Cox, who also taught in the school. Cox left in 1898 to take up the post of Superintendent of Schools at Bellows Falls, Vermont . In September 1898 he was replaced by George S. Chapin,

780-424: 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"

840-610: 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

900-403: Is a two-story building in the middle of the town of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire . It was built in 1853 as a private school and over the decades has housed two different private preparatory schools, a public school, and most recently town offices. In 1848 the town voted to build a new schoolhouse for higher education and the "Appleton Academy" was opened in 1850 in a building across the street from

960-421: 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

1020-682: 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

1080-553: 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

1140-634: 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)

1200-517: 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

1260-420: 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

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1320-530: 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

1380-466: 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

1440-586: 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

1500-537: The Appleton Academy, Mont Vernon, N.H. was published. In 1860, soon after graduating from Dartmouth College , Cecil Bancroft (1839–1901) was appointed as Principal of the school, where he stayed until 1864, leaving to marry Frances A. Kittredge, one of his students. He went on to be appointed as Principal of Phillips Academy Andover in 1873. By 1871, attendance had fallen to only thirty-six. In that year, George W. McCollom (1814–1878) of New York City,

1560-705: The McCollom Building. The name of Appleton seems to have been given in the hope of getting financial support from the Appleton family, particularly William Appleton of Boston , whose mother had lived in Mont Vernon with her daughters until her death in 1842, and his cousin Samuel Appleton , a notable philanthropist. William Appleton eventually gave the school a library worth $ 700, equivalent to $ 25,637 in 2023, while Samuel gave $ 500 towards

1620-556: 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

1680-538: The Stearns School. However, from 1910 no further girls were accepted. Needing other buildings and owning a golf course, this was a success until the crash of 1929. It closed in 1937, and for ten years the McCollom Building saw little use. In 1947 it became an overflow for the Central District elementary school, with the upstairs hall used as a gym until 1961, when it was divided into classrooms. In 1990

1740-409: The Trustees. Slightly more than half of the initial 52 students were girls, and all but six were from the town itself. However, L. B. Clough stayed as schoolmaster for only one term, and the school was not restarted until the fall of 1851. Numbers were then up to 77, including 34 girls, but it is not clear whether there was any teaching. By the school's third year, the numbers were up to 101, leading to

1800-466: 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 ,

1860-411: The building was used as a public high school in its final years. The book History of Mont Vernon (1907), says: For some years the permanent population of the town had been diminishing, and the surrounding towns, also growing smaller, were sending their children to High schools in towns which were large enough to support them. The regular fitting schools had, by their superior advantages, drawn many of

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1920-471: 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

1980-467: The class that formerly came to Mont Vernon, and McCollom Institute could no longer compete in the work. In 1906, Arthur Stearns, assistant headmaster of the Lakewood, N.J., school for boys, established a boarding school for both sexes in the building. Stearns School stopped accepting girls in 1910. It operated as a boarding prep school through 1937, eventually owning several town buildings as dormitories,

2040-469: The class that formerly came to Mont Vernon, and McCollom Institute could no longer compete in the work. After the end of the McCollom Institute, its trustees treated the school's building and remaining investments as educational resources. In September 1906, Arthur Stearns, principal of a boys' school in New Jersey , reopened the McCollom Building as a boarding preparatory school for boys and girls called

2100-556: The classes finished moving to a site on Harwood Road, and the McCollom trustees gave the building to the town to be used for offices. In 2010, it was housing the Mont Vernon police department and also the town clerk. Until at least the 1940s, the McCollom trustees helped to fund local students going to colleges and universities. 42°53′36″N 71°40′24″W  /  42.89333°N 71.67333°W  / 42.89333; -71.67333 McCollom Building The McCollom Building

2160-503: 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

2220-441: The cost of the new building, the biggest single donation, equivalent to $ 18,312 in 2023. In 1855, William gave another $ 100. By the school's third year, the number of students had risen to 101, leading to the need for a bigger and better building. What is now the McCollom Building was erected in 1853, forty feet by sixty, three stories, with an upstairs school hall. In 1858, a twelve-page Catalogue of Officers and Students of

2280-457: The current name. As of 2020 it holds the clerks office and police department. 42°53′36″N 71°40′24″W  /  42.89333°N 71.67333°W  / 42.89333; -71.67333 Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University , a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States . Part of

2340-702: 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

2400-483: 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

2460-447: 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

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2520-566: 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

2580-523: The length of the Fall and Winter terms was fixed at thirteen weeks each, leaving the Spring term at twelve weeks, which made the school year two weeks longer. In 1892, with numbers falling again, one of the school's rooms was put into use as Mont Vernon's first public library. Through the 1890s there were several changes of teachers and schoolmasters as interest in "country academies" fell out of favor. There

2640-671: The need for a bigger and better building, and it was built in 1853, 40 by 60 feet (12 by 18 m), three stories, with an upstairs school hall. In 1858, a twelve-page Catalogue of Officers and Students of the Appleton Academy, Mont Vernon, N.H. was published. In 1860, soon after graduating from Dartmouth College , Cecil Bancroft (1839–1901) was appointed as Principal of the school, where he stayed until 1864, leaving to marry Frances A. Kittredge, one of his students. He went on to be appointed as Principal of Phillips Academy Andover in 1873. By 1871, attendance had fallen to only 36. In that year, George W. McCollom (1814–1878) of New York City,

2700-469: 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

2760-690: The pleasant location of this Institution, and the universal interest of the people of Mont Vernon will insure success. And they also flatter themselves that they have secured such Teachers as will entitle them to a patronage and give satisfaction to those who may avail themselves of the opportunity offered them. The First Session will commence Aug. 21, and continue 12 weeks, under the instruction of L. B. Clough, A.B., aided by competent assistants. Tuition: Common English Branches, $ 3.50. Latin and Higher Branches, $ 4.00. Board can be had in good families, including rooms and lights, for $ 1.50 per week. Rooms can be obtained by students wishing to board themselves. Per order of

2820-514: The purpose. Money was raised by public subscription, in June 1850 the "Appleton Academy" was incorporated, the building was completed, and in the fall of that year the new school opened. The name of Appleton seems to have been given in the hope of getting financial support from the Appleton family, particularly William Appleton of Boston , whose mother had lived in Mont Vernon with her daughters until her death in 1842, and his cousin Samuel Appleton ,

2880-766: 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

2940-423: The state, and the town would have to pay for the tuition. Peck then continued as principal, with Miss Annie Louise Williams, a graduate of Brown University , as his assistant. She resigned in 1903 to take a position in the high school at Whitefield, New Hampshire . In September 1903, Professor Leslie A. Bailey and his wife were then hired as principal and assistant, but they stayed only one year, resigning to move to

3000-544: 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

3060-477: 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

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3120-471: Was established, including the Rev. J. G. Davis of Amherst . The opening of the school was announced in the Farmers' Cabinet dated August 15, 1850, as follows: APPLETON ACADEMY AT MONT VERNON, N. H. The Trustees of Appleton Academy take pleasure in announcing to the friends of education, that they have recently completed their building, and are now prepared to open it to the public. They feel assured that

3180-608: 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

3240-565: 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

3300-553: Was largely unused until 1947, when the trustees let the town use it for elementary school overflow from Central School, the last of what had once been five public school houses in town. In 1970 the Mont Vernon Village School was built and grades 4-6 move there. In 1990 the remaining grades moved to the Village School and the McCollom Building was given to the town of Mont Vernon, at which time it adopted

3360-653: Was no school from 1900 to 1901. By 1906, the number of students had fallen to eleven, partly reflecting a decline the population of rural New England towns like Mont Vernon as farms moved to the Midwest, and trustees decided to discontinue the school. The book History of Mont Vernon (1907), says For some years the permanent population of the town had been diminishing, and the surrounding towns, also growing smaller, were sending their children to High schools in towns which were large enough to support them. The regular fitting schools had, by their superior advantages, drawn many of

3420-463: 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 ,

3480-581: 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

3540-535: 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

3600-473: Was toastmaster; George A. Ramsdell , a future governor of New Hampshire , who was appointed to a committee to arrange the next reunion; and many others. In April 1879, the length of the fall and winter terms was fixed at thirteen weeks each, leaving the spring term at twelve weeks, which made the school year two weeks longer. In 1892, with numbers falling again, one of the school's rooms was put into use as Mont Vernon's first public library. In February 1895,

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