During the infancy of ice hockey in the United States, the school established itself as a powerhouse that often played and beat collegiate teams at Harvard and Yale.

In 2006, the University of Virginia beat Harvard University to win the National Championship.

Saltonstall also played hockey at Harvard where he scored a dramatic overtime goal in 1914 for Harvard to beat the legendary Hobey Baker's Princeton team.

Beginning on April 11, 2009, Harvard Stadium became the home field of the Boston Breakers of the Women's Professional Soccer ( WPS ) league when they beat Saint Louis Athletica 2-0.

The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card-counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide.

In the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game, the Colonels ( under coach Charley Moran ) shocked Harvard University and became the first school from outside the East to ever beat one of the Ivy League's " Big Three " of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

Amaker's Harvard team beat his former team, Michigan, in just his eighth game as coach at Harvard during the 2007 – 08 season.

Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was critical of Martin's work, leading Martin to describe him as " Brer Gates ," ( see: Joel Chandler Harris ) and to write: " Whenever the other folks have wanted anybody to beat the rest of the race over the head with, Brer Gates has been on the scene, like an HNIC Nigger in Charge " machine.

" We want to beat Harvard.

The first game ever played that resembles the game as it is known today was played between an American team, Harvard, and a Canadian team, McGill University of Montreal in 1874.

Harvard would eventually go on to fully adopt the McGill version of the game that included more carrying of the ball and also used an oblong ball that was easier to carry and throw.

Harvard's decision not to join the Yale-Rutgers-Princeton-Columbia association meant that they needed to look further afield to find football opponents so when a challenge from Canada ’ s McGill University rugby team in Montreal was issued to Harvard, they accepted.

It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard ’ s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill.

He attended Harvard University, was an undergraduate at McGill University and afterwards received master's and doctorate degrees from Yale University.

He was likewise awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Bristol, Belfast, Melbourne, British Columbia, McGill, Montreal, Royal University of Malta, Laval, Quebec, Tasmania, Cambridge, Harvard, Leeds, Adelaide, Queensland, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Drury and California.

He received a BA degree in psychology at McGill University in 1976, and then went on to earn his PhD degree in experimental psychology at Harvard University in 1979.

In 1978, after teaching at McGill, Ben Gurion, and Yale universities, Safdie moved his main office to Boston and became director of the Urban Design Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, until 1984.

Throughout its more recent history, St Andrews has maintained strong links with leading academic institutions in the United Kingdom including the Oxbridge and also the top research schools from United States and Canada, including McGill, Harvard, MIT and Princeton to name a few.

Mahan continued to write voluminously and received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and McGill.

Beginning in 2005, McGill was one of a handful of leading law faculties ( including Columbia, Geneva, Harvard, Michigan, New York University, Strasbourg, University of Toronto and Yale ) to be invited by the International Court of Justice to supply clerks to the Judges.

* Harvard Crimson plays McGill Redmen under rules taken from both association football and rugby football: it is hence arguably the first game of American football as a distinctive code

* 23 November — representatives of Harvard Crimson, Yale Bulldogs, Princeton Tigers and Columbia Lions meet at the Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to standardise a new code of rules based on the Canadian rugby game first introduced to Harvard by Canada's McGill University in 1874.

He also held honorary degrees from Oxford University, England ; in the United States from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Amherst, Johns Hopkins, the University of California, and Ohio University ; in Sweden, Uppsala University ; and in Canada from McGill University as well as Carleton.

Evans has lectured at many universities including Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, McGill, and the University of Barcelona.

* Arthur Chute McGill, American Theologian and the Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard from 1971 until 1980.

in philosophy and politics ( and served as president of the McGill Debating Union ), and from Harvard University with an M. A.

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The first medical schools that granted the MD degree were Columbia, UPenn, Harvard, Maryland, and McGill.

He began teaching at Harvard and taught at McGill before returning to Britain and the LSE in 1956, where he taught for 11 years.

An accomplished public speaker, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has addressed the European Union, Oxford Union and spoken at a number of colleges and Universities including Harvard, Cambridge, McGill and also served as a Conference rapporteur at a UN meeting on Cultural Diversity.

Kennedy administration policies also have been assailed now from another direction by 70 Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators.

Public parkland includes the esplanade along the Charles River, which mirrors its Boston counterpart, Cambridge Common, a busy and historic public park immediately adjacent to the Harvard campus, and the Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond in the western part of the city.

Harvard University turned down an invitation to join this group because they preferred to play a rougher version of football called " the Boston Game " in which the kicking of a round ball was the most prominent feature though a player could run with the ball, pass it, or dribble it ( known as “ babying ”).

The sixth-grade graduate instructing Harvard students delighted Boston newspapers.

He attended Boston Latin School, where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame, and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15.

It has long been awarded by such leading institutions as Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Washington University.

* 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was in high demand as a lecturer, and was frequently invited to lecture at conferences and as a guest lecturer at other universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Dalhousie, Wellesley, Florida State, the Universities of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, and Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston Harbor.

While at Harvard, he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra and was a reserve clarinetist for both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Company of Boston.

In 1863, Agassiz's daughter Ida married Henry Lee Higginson, later to be founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and benefactor to Harvard University and other schools.

During these " Boston Tech " years, MIT faculty and alumni repeatedly rejected overtures from former MIT faculty turned Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, to merge MIT with Harvard College's Lawrence Scientific School.

As Joe Harvard, a participant in the Boston scene, describes, it was often a simple necessity — the absence of a local recording industry and well-distributed music magazines left little recourse but DIY.

BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station.

Harvard, Georgetown University, Boston University, Yale, and Princeton all had the theological training of clergy as a primary purpose at their foundation.

* July 17 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.

The Boston study, led by Harvard Medical School child psychiatrist Stanley Walzer at Children's Hospital, was unique among the seven newborn screening studies in that it only screened newborn boys ( non-private-ward newborn boys at the Boston Hospital for Women ) and was funded in part by grants from the NIMH Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency.

In 1973, child psychiatrist Herbert Schreier at Children ’ s Hospital told Harvard Medical School microbiologist Jon Beckwith of Science for the People that he thought Walzer ’ s Boston XYY study was unethical ; Science for the People investigated the study and filed a complaint with Harvard Medical School about the study in March 1974.

In December 1974, the Harvard Standing Committee on Medical Research issued a report supporting the Boston XYY study and in March 1975, the faculty voted 199 – 35 to allow continuation of the study.

While at Harvard, he served on the faculty of Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.

While in Boston, Stone attended the Boston Architectural Club ( now Boston Architectural College ), Harvard University, and MIT, but he never received a degree.