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 IRVARD UNIVERSITY was founded in 1636, and it was granted a charter in 1650. 
 The principal seat of the University is at Cambridge, close to Boston and reached by 
 any Cambridge street car, marked Harvard Square. The Medical School, Denial 
 School and the School of Veterinary Medicine are located in Boston, "to secure those advan- 
 tages for clii ical instruction and for the study of piactical anatomy which are found only in 
 large cities." The Bussey Institution was established in 1870 at Jamaica Plain, near Fort Hills 
 station, for instruction in practical agriculture, and connected with it is the Arnold Arboretum, 
 for instruction in tree culture, the whole forming a magnificent park, open to the public. 
 
 A young minister, John Harvard, died at Charlestown in 1638 and lefc to the college ju^t 
 forming his library of some three hundred volumns and one half his estate, about f"jco. This 
 sum exceeded the aggregate of all other donations, and in grateful recognition the college was 
 named Harvard. Though fostered by the State, it has been from the first a private, incorpor- 
 ated institution, supported in the main by students' fees and secondly by the income of 
 permanent funds given by benevolent individuals. To-day its government is practically the 
 same as it was in 1650, consisting of the corporation called "The President and Fellows of 
 Harvard College " and the Board of 32 Overseers. The President and Fellows fill the vacancies 
 in the corporation; the Overseers are elected by the alumni of the University. It has ex- 
 perienced a remarkable growth during the last dozen years especially, and it numbers at 
 present 337 officers of instruction and 3,290 students. 
 
 Cambridge Common was the place of arms of the settlers of 1631, who selected it for their 
 strong fortress and entrenched camp. This ground was also the muster field of the American 
 armv of the Revolution, and here the flag of thirteen stripes was fir^t unfurled. Crcssir.g the 
 Common diagonally we come upon the Washington Elm, in whose branches Gen. Washington 
 caused a platform to be built in order to survey with his glass the country round, while he xiad 
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 Elmiuood — the Lowell Homestead was probably built as early as 1760, and in it Thomas 
 Oliver, the last of the English Lieutenant-Governors, surrendered to the people. It was long 
 the home of James Russell Lowell, the poet, wdio wrote here " The Biglow Papers. " Wash- 
 ington's Headquarters, or Longfellow Hjmc, is Cambridge's especial pride. It was built in 
 1739 by Colonel John Vassal. Washington established here his headquarters in 1775 and re- 
 mained for eight months. Edward Everett and Joseph E. Worcester, the lexigrapher, at one 
 time dwelt here. In 1837 Henry M. Longfellow came to live in the house, and in 1843 he 
 purchased it. Cambridge is rich in old residences and in reminiscences of historic persons 
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