The Founding of Harvard College by Morison

The Founding of Harvard College. The author, Samuel Eliot Morison, graduated from Harvard in 1908, was professor of history at Harvard University and winner of two Pulitzer prizes. Paperback, published in 1998 by Harvard University Press, a reprint of the 1935 classic. 592 pages. Traces the origin of universities through western history including Cambridge and Oxford, then shifts to cover the founding of Harvard College, John Harvard, "The Old College", the derivation of the 'Veritas' Motto and much more.