Harvard holds real estate totaling 5,457 acres of land, the size of over 4000 football fields! But it hasn’t always been this large. Classes at Harvard began in the summer of 1638 in a single-frame house and a college yard. Of the total land owned, the main university campus holds only about 4%.
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