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  2. History and traditions of Harvard commencements - Wikipedia

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    What was originally called Harvard Colledge [3] (around which Harvard University eventually grew) [4] held its first Commence­ment in September 1642, when nine degrees were conferred. [5] Today some 1700 under­grad­uate degrees, and 5000 advanced degrees from the university's various graduate and professional schools, are conferred each ...

  3. History of Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    Eliot used the German model to set up graduate programs at Harvard and he formed a graduate department in 1872, which granted its first Ph.D. degrees in 1873 to William Byerly in mathematics and Charles Whitney in history. Eliot set up the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with its own dean and budget in 1890, which dealt with graduate ...

  4. Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia

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    Downing attended Harvard College and ranked second out of nine students in the first graduating class of 1642. He was hired by Harvard as the college's first tutor. During his later life, he was frequently insulted because of his obscure origins and supposedly dubious New England education. [7]

  5. Eugenie Carys de Silva - Wikipedia

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    Eugenie Carys de Silva is an academic known for being the youngest person to ever graduate from Harvard University. [1] [2] De Silva completed her master's degree in Intelligence Studies at age 13. [2] She previously served as Adjunct Faculty at Walters State Community College and now currently serves as senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.

  6. This day in history: First twelve women graduate from Harvard ...

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    On this day in history, the first 12 women graduated from the prestigious Harvard Medical School. The Harvard Medical School listed the graduates' names on their website: First female graduates ...

  7. Former Harvard president Larry Summers slams Ivy League ... - AOL

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    About one in five students from Harvard’s graduating class of 2024 reported having a nearly perfect GPA, rounding to 4.0, according to the Harvard Crimson. Nearly 80% had an average GPA of 3.7 ...

  8. Thomas Warren Sears - Wikipedia

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    He received his A.B. in 1903 from Harvard College, followed in 1906 by his B.S. in Landscape Architecture as a member of Harvard's first graduating class in the field. After establishing an office in Providence, Rhode Island , Sears moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , and by 1917 had begun his own practice there, where he remained for the ...

  9. McDonald's Hamburger University can be harder to get into ...

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    The first graduating class had 14 students in 1961. Today, Hamburger University has more than 200 students in one class and, just this year, more than 60 sessions of the 'Restaurant Manager ...