| Mt. Harvard |
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Name History (Mt. Harvard)Title: Naming of Mt. Harvard Entered by: 14erFred Added: 5/17/2010, Last Updated: 5/17/2010 Sources: Borneman, W.R., & Lampert, L.J. (1978). A climbing guide to Colorado's Fourteeners. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company. Eberhart, P., & Schmuck, P. (1970). The Fourteeners: Colorado's great mountains. Chicago: The Swallow Press. Hart, J.L.J. (1977). Fourteen thousand feet: A history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks (Second Edition). Denver, CO: The Colorado Mountain Club. This mountain is one of a group of five Collegiate Peak 14ers in the south central Sawatch Range of the Colorado Rockies that also includes Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Oxford. The first team to survey the mountain in 1869 consisted of Professor Josiah D. Whitney (for whom the highest California 14er is named) and all six students in the first graduating class of the Harvard School of Mines, of which Whitney was the head. In his survey report, Whitney gave the mountain "the name of Mt. Harvard in honor of the university to which most of the [team] members belonged as teachers or students" (Hart, 1977, p. 19). |
