Harvard College opens in Cambridge.

(Fall) [Summer-Bahne]) Originally New College, it is located in the former William Peyntree farm house near today’s 1341 Massachusetts Avenue. Nine students are in the first class. The first master is Nathaniel Eaton, who is censured and barred from teaching by the General Court in 1639,* and subsequently described by Rev. William Hubbard as “Fitter to have been an officer in the Inquisition or master of a house of correction, than an instructor of Christian youth.” The college assumes its current name in 1639.* Graduates include seven U.S. presidents, including John Adams, who later writes to his cousin, Samuel, “Boston town meetings and our Harvard College have set the universe in motion.” The closes soon closes temporarily, but reopens in 1640.*