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  1. Oldest educational institution in the USA,
  2. founded in 1636 at New Towne (later
  3. Cambridge), Massachusetts, and named after
  4. John Harvard (1607-38), who bequeathed half
  5. his estate and his library to it. Women were
  6. first admitted in 1969; the women's college
  7. of the university is Radcliffe College.
  8.