John Harvard
When There's A Will There's A Way
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This is John Harvard! A man who apparently cared so very much about the kind of education which the new college in the new world would be offering to future generations—to their predecessors, and to themselves!
For all of these visitors, for all with whatever academic and or personal Harvard connections, as well as for all those tourists who merely come to acknowledge the tremendous prestige of this place, to pay homage to the extensive influence in all kinds of education earned over the centuries by Harvard University—for all of these people I suddenly decided to take the time to do some research, and then to share the more intimate and detailed story of John Harvard. To reveal in simple terms the intriguing tale of one man’s great faith in the essential goodness of mankind, especially when guarded and guided by the sound values of excellence in education.
I’ve also tried to show how John Harvard’s strong convictions, together with his extremely explicit guidelines for progress, have been amazingly well followed over the years by the different Harvard administrators and Harvard faculties. There is an incredible fascination to be discovered in their many and varied attempts to provide the best possible kinds of teaching for all the many different kinds of individuals who kept passing through the now ‘hallowed halls’.
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John Harvard’s own tolerance for difference—in people, in ideas, in issues and situations—is very apparent in the way he lived his life and in the classical writers he chose to emulate and to admire the most. By the time he finished his studies at
This story shows how John Harvard believed in and wanted this attitude for tolerance in education so much that on his death bed he suddenly decided to offer his sizeable and completely unexpected gift “to the new colledge”, convinced that his bequest would help start the new college in the new land—sooner!
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Skip Wilson is a graduate of
Skip and her husband Don spend their winters on