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TIL that harvard is named after it's first benefactor. JOHN HARVARD, a clergyman who assumed the role of a minister in colonial new england. his deathbed bequest to 'schoale or colledge' is so gratefully received that masachusetts bay colony ordered the college to be bamed after him.

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