Harvard University
                   & The New England Connection

Emmanuel's association with Harvard University goes back 360 years. It was in the 1630s that John Havard and some 30 others from the college (of a tota of 102 from Cambridge University) left to start a new life in New England. In Boston, Thomas Shepherd became a leading preacher and, subsequently, Cambridge, Massachusetts was named in complement to him. When John Harvard died (Still in his thirties) he left half his estate, and library to form the basis of America's oldest university, founded a few months earlier, which then took his name.

Emmanuel is proud that its link with Harvard continues. There is a regular yearly exchange of scholars between the two bodies.

John Harvard's signature,
which is preserved in the Emmanuel College Library