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.
At 10:07 a.m. PDT on October 3, 1995, O. J. Simpson was found not guilty of murder on both counts. The only testimony reviewed was that of limo driver Alan Park, who had said that he did not see Simpson's Bronco outside of the Rockingham estate when he arrived to pick him up (after the murders occurred).