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John Young Campbell (born May 17, 1958) is a British-American economist who has served as the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University since 1994. [2] Biography [ edit ]
John Campbell (1750–1826), Scottish lawyer and politician, MP for Ayr Burghs 1794–1807. John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1753–1821), British politician, MP for Nairnshire 1777–1780 and for Cardigan Boroughs 1780–1796. John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane (1762–1834), also 4th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland.
James Campbell (1882), son of businessman Robert Campbell, Harvard Law 1888. Elihu Brintnal Frost (1883), lawyer, president of several early submarine companies: 112 Eliakim Hastings Moore (1883), mathematician, namesake of the Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse: 47–8
John Campbell Merriam (October 20, 1869 – October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist, educator, and conservationist.The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, particularly with the genus Smilodon, more commonly known as the sabertooth cat.
Structure. The Harvard Corporation is a 501(c)(3) and the owner of all of Harvard University's assets and real property.. As a governing board, the Corporation traditionally functioned as an outside body whose members were not involved in the institution's daily life, meeting instead periodically to consult with the day-to-day head, the President of Harvard University, whom it appoints, and ...
History of Harvard University. The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts, which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university, and changed its name two years later to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in honor ...
Harvard was born and raised in Southwark, Surrey, England, (now part of London ), the fourth of nine children of Robert Harvard (1562–1625), a butcher and tavern owner, and his wife Katherine Rogers (1584–1635), a native of Stratford-upon-Avon. Her father, Thomas Rogers (1540–1611), served on the borough corporation's council with John ...
A number of unusual traditions have attached to them over the centuries, including the arrival of certain dignitaries on horseback, occupancy by Harvard's president of the Holyoke Chair (a "bizarre" sixteenth-century contraption prone to tipping over) and the welcoming of newly minted bachelors to "the fellowship of educated men and women."