Harvard University, a private university founded in 1636, announced Monday that tuition, room and board will be free for ...

It has always been known that Harvard was founded in 1636, and that it was John Havard who endowed the money and gave the college its name The facts are that in 1636 the General Court of the ...

Shepard was an admirer and almost surely a friend of John Harvard, and in 1636 Harvard College became an actuality. The Cambridge minister took immediate and active part in the early controversies ...

U.S. college endowment funds date back to 1636 with Harvard. Schools have always maintained assets for their institution, but endowments didn’t start to grow exponentially until private wealth ...