题目内容：

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Harvard is older than the United States. In the early 1630s, some settlers recommended that a university 1.(found) just to improve the quality of their descendants(子孙）so that they could better build the new home. Thus ,it was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Like many other universities at that time, Harvard at the early stage often ran into 2. financial crisis. The school board often had to go to Europe to raise 3.(donate),but as you can predict, they often came back 4.their hands empty.

5.(fortunate),in 1638,John Harvard, pastor of Charlestown, passed away. He left his library and half his estate(财产）to the institution ,6.were the biggest contribution ever since its establishment .Therefore, the university was named after his name. Today, you can find a statue of John Harvard 7.(stand) in front of the University Hall in Harvard Yard, and it is perhaps the University’s best 8.(know) landmark.

It is universally 9.(acknowledge) that John Harvard was respected and remembered by the people in the USA owing to10. he did .