The best evidence to support the statement "John Harvard did not anticipate that a university would be named after him" is the phrase: "Little did young Harvard dream of the fame to be attached to his name for this modest act of charity." This directly implies that he did not foresee the significant recognition his actions would eventually receive.
Select the best evidence to support the statement "John Harvard did not anticipate that a university would be named after him."
John Harvard did not found Harvard University, as is commonly believed. The Puritans founded it collectively in 1636 with a public grant of four hundred pounds for the purpose of training young ministers of the gospel. The university, however, honors the name of John Harvard, a butcher's son and a graduate of Cambridge University. He died in 1638 of tuberculosis, bequeathing a modest sum of money along with four hundred books-his entire library-to the institution. Little did young Harvard dream of the fame to be attached to his name for this modest act of charity. And even less could he have dreamed that his little library of four hundred books would one day increase to more than eight million.
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