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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...

Brattle Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Brattle Theatre (Brattle Hall, Cambridge, Mass.)

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Brattle Hall, which houses the Brattle Theatre, was built in 1871 by The Cambridge Social Union as a multipurpose space. With the depression in 1929, the Social Union membership fell and the hall was rented to a variety of tenants including the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and a number of professional theater companies. From 1948-1952, the Brattle Theatre Company, formerly the Veterans' Theatre Workshop (a society of Harvard students) occupied the building and hired many well-known actor...

Veterans' Theatre Workshop

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Cambridge Social Union (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Cambridge Center for Adult Education

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