Penciled on right side "GEN. O. O. HOWARD".

Established on March 2, 1867 under a charter enacted by Congress and approved by President Andrew Johnson, the college was named after General Oliver O. Howard who was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau and the college's third president. A historically black university, the college currently ranks 96th among national universities in the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2008" rankings.Howard University is the number-one producer of African American Ph.D.s in the United States. It is often known as the Black Harvard.