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A graduate School of Architecture was established in 1914. In the 1935–36 catalogue there were Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning, all taught by the Faculty of Architecture. A Faculty of Design was instituted in 1936 with...

The Harvard Dental School was founded in 1867. The Harvard Directory of 1910 records 19 alumni with Australian addresses of whom 10 had dental degrees. The dominance of dentists is even more pronounced if only those graduates who lived in Australia before...

The earliest Australian connections with athletics at Harvard were coaches. Steve O’Donnell was a boxing coach in the years 1898–1917. James Wray was rowing coach in the years 1904–1915. The Australian swimmer Bill Kendall competed at the Berlin Olympic...

Thomas Jefferson Gore, a native of Kentucky, came to Australia in 1866 to become first pastor of the Grote Street Church of Christ, Adelaide. Perhaps because of his influence, the College of the Bible in Lexington, Kentucky became a Mecca (if such...

Several individuals with degrees from Harvard College lived in Australia prior to the Second World War but I have found evidence of only five individuals who attended the College in this period after first having lived in Australia. During the 1920s, two...

The Graduate Department was created in January 1872 by action of the Governing Boards. The Academic Council was appointed to administer and recommend candidates for the degrees of master of arts, master of science, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of...

The Harvard School of Business Administration was founded in 1908. George Elton Mayo , born in Adelaide and a lecturer in mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland, was a Professor in Industrial Research at the Business School from 1926...