religions institution
1.The oldest institution of higher learning in the country is Harvard in Cambridge in Massachusetts, it was established in 1636 as Harvard college, Massachusetts was an English colony at the time, the school was named for a Purtian religions leader, John Harvard gave the college all his books and half his property when he died, at first, Harvard had one teacher and 9 students, today it has all most 20 thousand students, nearly 4000 of them this past year were from outside the united states.
