Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislatureop. cit. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as the first and oldest corporation in the Americas. (See: Harvard Corporation) With regard to age, several institutions founded in the mid-1700s have a difference of opinion over relative position, but none today explicitly challenges Harvard's "oldest" position. One possible challenger is Georgetown University, whose founding date is debated. In the past the university has taken 1634 as the date of its foundation (two years before that of Harvard),[LINK: http://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/8224468] [1] this being the year that Jesuit education began on the site.

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