Talk:Harvard College

message: thumb|The Adams family
*Samuel Adams, Class of 1740
*John Adams, Class of 1755
*John Quincy Adams, Class of 1788
*Charles Adams (1770–1800), Class of 1789
*George Washington Adams, Class of 1821
*John Adams II, expelled prior to 1823 graduation
*Charles Francis Adams, Sr., Class of 1825
*Henry Brooks Adams, Class of 1858
*Roger Adams, Class of 1909  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.72 (talk) 00:27, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does this list appear on the Talk page? It ought to be in the article. Valetude (talk) 10:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Harvard University and the Adams family

message: Twenty-three years later, in 1665, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, "from the Wampanoag...did graduate from Harvard, the first Indian to do so in the colonial period".[1]
I think he was just "the first Indian to do so.[period]"  The phrase 'in the colonial period' would only make sense if there was some history prior to the colonial period and therefore the citation needed qualification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.105.72.67 (talk) 20:46, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Indian in the colonial period 

message: I've removed this material from John Harvard because it's not really about the man but about the school.  Maybe it will be of use here.
:In honor of this gift, the New College at nearby Cambridge, which had been founded on 1636 and to his friend, the first schoolmaster of this college, Nathaniel Eaton. Eaton's records indicate that the building of the new college began immediately in 1638 with the assistance of the carpenter Thomas Meakins and/or his son, Thomas Meakins, Jr. of Charlestown. It was completely constructed of wood, with a stone foundation and cellar, had its own apple orchard, and was apparently equipped with live-in accommodations for some 30 students, as there were at least that many attendant within the first year.
:The school was renamed "Harvard College" on March 13, 1639.  Harvard was first referred to as a university rather than a college by the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
:The College's Harvard Hall burned in 1764, destroying all but one of Harvard's original 400-volume donation.( ) ()
— Preceding unsigned comment added by EEng (talk • contribs) 00:32, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material salvaged from [[John Harvard (clergyman)]] 

message: This edit  reflects my removal, from Harvard University, of an enormous block of text headed "student activities", giving one or two sentences on each of dozens of student groups.  Aside from the drearily superlative tone (oldest, largest, premeire, oldest, largest, premeire.. OK, OK!) this material is too detailed for any kind of list-in-main-article-of-things-which-have-their-own-articles i.e. it doesn't belong here at Harvard College much less at Harvard University, but in articles on the individual groups. (A spotcheck suggests that most or all of this material is already in those articles alrady.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by EEng (talk • contribs) 19:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material removed from [[Harvard University]] 

message: The article still says that each House has a "Master", but I am reasonably sure they changed the title to "Head of House". Right? Source: Original research, but this was a big deal. 146.115.179.89 (talk) 23:05, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "Faculty Dean". Been meaning to get around to this. Stand by. (I probably won't have the energy to do the various individual House articles, so feel free to pitch in.) Honestly I have to wonder if they've got their thinking caps on in University Hall, since a while ago they renamed Allston Burr Senior Tutors to Resident Deans, so now each house now has a Faculty Dean and a Resident Dean, and guess what -- they're both "resident" in the house. EEng 00:56, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  No more House Masters, now Heads of House, right? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Editors here may perhaps be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 December 30#Harvard student publications. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:02, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It really would be helpful to have input from editors who actually understand how the College works. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:30, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category discussion 

message: * Moses King, Harvard and Its Surroundings — Preceding unsigned comment added by EEng (talk • contribs) 05:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: I note that Benazir Bhutto is listed as an alumna of the College in this article. She got here degree from Radcliffe in 1973. I'm not sure how this is handled what with the semi-merger of Radcliffe and Harvard in 1977. Attic Salt (talk) 01:27, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benazir Bhutto 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Harvard University § Some substantial category cleanup needed.   talk 23:09, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[:Talk:Harvard University#Some substantial category cleanup needed|Talk:Harvard University §&nbsp;Some substantial category cleanup needed]]

message: We've got an editor repeatedly inserting a standalone section on the recent admissions ruling  . There's no more reason to include this than any of literally hundreds of important cases Harvard's been involved with over the centuries, and the ruling reflects more on the Supreme Court and its justices than it does on Harvard, which just happened to be the defendant. If we want to start highlighting legal cases with long-term consequences, we should probably start with The Charity of Edward Hopkins and Sacco and Vanzetti. EEng 08:04, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you an employee or an admissions officer at Harvard College protecting the image of the Wikipedia article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.171.23.163 (talk) 08:17, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Are you a random person dropping in to add the latest blip on the screen to the article on a 400-year-old institution? See WP:RECENTISM, WP:NOTNEWS. EEng 08:28, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why are you acting like one? Harvard President-elect Claudine Gay announced that the university will comply with the court's decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.171.23.163 (talk) 08:30, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Then that's all the more reason not to mention it. If Gay had indicated that Harvard would not be complying, then that might be worth mentioning. EEng 19:27, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admissions case