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...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...
...John F. Kennedy Library: The Kennedys are certainly Massachusetts' royal family, and you are now attending their traditional alma mater. (Even the handsome and still eligible John-John, though not a grad, has been known to stop by from time to time.) And the library, accessible via a convenient and complimentary shuttle bus from South Station, is the perfect place to feed a Kennedy obsession. The museum, which details JFK's life from his entrance into politics through his assassination is well done, and the library is extensive...
Here we have our Literary City, birthplace and/or alma mater to Willa Cather, Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, B. Traven, Algren, Bellow. Who gets to hang the tag on it? Carl Sandburg...