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President Neil L. Rudenstine returned to his alma matter, Princeton University, yesterday afternoon to deliver a short speech at the school's 250th anniversary convocation...
...ending Harvard's six-year streak as the top college in the nation. Adding insult to injury, the U.S. News survey dropped Harvard right past second to a lowly third, behind Yale and Princeton, respectively. Harvardians responded with a mix of consternation and indifference to the news that their alma matter had fallen from its lofty position as the undisputed best of the best. (On Yale's New Haven campus, however, screams of joy were reportedly heard over the steady stream of gunfire...
...site now known as Cambridge was first settled in 1630 and named Newtowne. Six years later, the Massachusetts Bay Company set aside funding for what eventually became Harvard. In 1638, the town was renamed Cambridge in honor of the English alma mater of many of the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts...
...state's oldest communities, Harvard, Mass., got its name in 1732. With the form for the articles of incorporation having a blank space for town name, Massachusetts Secretary Josiah Willard, Class of 1698, named the new community after his alma mater...
...including Rosenstraus, seems to know the origin of the hamlet's name, but she speculates that the town's founders were from New England and named it after their alma mater...