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Further Reading: Bradley, Hugh, Havana, Cinderella's City (New York 1941); Franco, Victor, The Morning After (New York 1963); Lock wood, Lee, Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel (New York 1967); Roberts, W. Adolphe, Havana: The Portrait of a City (New York 1953). HAVANA, University of, ha-van'a, an institution of higher education in Havana, Cuba. After the establishment of a university in Cuba was authorized by Pope Innocent XIII in 1721, monks of the Dominican Order of Preaching Friars founded the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Hieronymus in Havana in 1728. The university was expanded and made a secular institution in 1842. In 1899, at the end of Spanish rule, it was renamed the University of Havana.

Much of his life was spent in distributing more than $100 million in gifts to Yale University, Harvard University, the Pilgrim Trust (in Britain), Phillips Exeter Academy, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and other educational and welfare institutions. Through his initiative, the multiple-college or house plan was established at Harvard and Yale. He also served as trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Harkness died in New York City on Jan. 29, 1940.

He was graduated at Hamilton College in 1864, and at the New York University Law School in 1867. In the latter year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of his profession in New York. In 1883 he was appointed United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York; in 1894 was a delegate-at-large to the New York State Constitutional Convention, and was chairman of the judiciary committee.