Radcliffe College Founded (1879)
The "Harvard Annex" opened in 1879 to give women Harvard’s instruction without Harvard’s degree — a half-measure that produced Helen Keller, Gertrude Stein and a century of pressure until full merger in 1999.
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1636: The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, John Harvard.
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Look for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Radcliffe Yard →Cambridge History DeskLocal historian
Look for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Radcliffe Yard →
What this meant before
- Date
- 1879
- Graph connections
- 3
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