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This month in Harvard history

Dec. 29, 1627 - John Harvard enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England.

Dec. 20, 1672 - Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, is formally installed as Harvard's third President and the first to have graduated from the College.

December 1763 - Hollis Hall is completed in the Yard.

Dec. 13, 1856 - A(bbott) Lawrence Lowell, Harvard's future 22nd President, is born in Boston.

Dec. 3, 1872 - The Harvard University Foot Ball Club organizes in Holden Chapel; Bob Grant, Class of 1873, is the first president.

- From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower