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Five U.S. towns, a 14,420-foot-high Colorado mountain and a 20-mile-long glacier in southern Alaska share Harvard's moniker...
...Harvard Glacier...
Jutting into southern Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Harvard Glacier, 1,500 feet thick and 20 miles long, fills the lefthand fork of the College Fjord. The righthand fork is, naturally, the Yale Glacier. Seven tributaries of the fjord are named after Ivy League sister schools, including Radcliffe...
...fjord, and Harvard Glacier, are visited by between 30,000 and 50,000 tourists a year, Molnia estimates. Many take day trips by bus, train and boat, departing from Anchorage...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...