Harvard University
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The oldest college in the USA, Harvard University, founded in 1636. Radcliffe College, the associated women's college, was founded in 1879.
The oldest educational institution in the USA, founded in 1636 at New Towne (later Cambridge), Massachusetts, and named after John Harvard (1607–1638), who bequeathed half his estate and his library to it. Women were first admitted in 1969; the women's college of the university is Radcliffe College.
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