Records of residential life in Leverett House, ca. 1932-2003.

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard University. Leverett House

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One of the twelve undergraduate houses at Harvard, Leverett House was named after John Leverett, who was President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724. Leverett House was completed in 1931, and was comprised of the existing McKinlock Hall and the newly constructed Mather Hall, Dining Hall, and Master's lodgings. Leverett remained in that configuration until the early 1960s when the College expanded and the new Houses were added. The house system at Harvard began in 1928, under ...

Leverett House (Cambridge, Mass.)

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