Records of the Cuban Summer School
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Harvard University. Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education
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Summer courses have been offered at Harvard since 1871. Although the Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education was suspended from 1943 through 1947, the Graduate School of Education had summer sessions open to the public during those years. The Summer School was re-established in 1948 and is under the direction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences....
Harvard University. Cuban Summer School
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The Cuban Summer School held at Harvard University in 1900 was one of the largest cultural exchanges between the United States and Cuba. On July 5, 1900, about 1,270 Cuban teachers arrived in Boston to complete a six-week summer school program at Harvard where they participated in classes, lectures, and excursions. Superintendent of Public Schools in Cuba Alexander Everett Frye (LLB 1890) organized the summer school to instruct Cuban teachers in the latest American educational methods and Americ...
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...
