It was named after the Collegeâs first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution. A statue of John Harvard stands today in front of University Hall in Harvard Yard, and is perhaps the Universityâs best known landmark.
This article is about the college in California. For the college in Iowa refer to Simpson College. Simpson University is a private, liberal arts college located on a 92-acre (37 ha) campus in Redding, California.
The Simpson Desert is a huge desert in the central east of Australia, and covers parts of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales. Its boundaries are the Finke River and Mabel Range to the west, the Adam Range to the north ,the Georgina and Diamantina Rivers to the east and Lake Eyre to the south.he Sonoran desert is one of the largest and hottest deserts in the Americas and it covers the southeast of California and the southwest of Arizona in the US, and the northhwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. To the north of this 'low desert' is the 'high desert' Mojave.