Harvard university

Harvard university

Harvard University is one of the oldest and best universities in the world in America and is one of the strongest universities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Founded in 1636 by John Harvard, born in London in 1607m and died in 1638m. Not only is it the best university in terms of equipment, and it has been ranked fifth in the world in terms of difficulty in accepting students on its seats. The university has an area of 85 hectares, with approximately 6,700 university students and 13,100 postgraduate students, according to many international studies, the university ranked first in the top 100 universities worldwide, ahead of the British universities Cambridge and Oxford

Many aspects of American academic and political growth have been closely connected with the alumni and faculty of Harvard. Harvard had graduated seven U.S. presidents by the end of the first decade of the 21st century—John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama—and a variety of judges, cabinet members, and representatives of Congress. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Henry James, Henry Adams, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Walter Lippmann, and Norman Mailer are literary figures amongst Harvard graduates. The historians Francis Parkman, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Samuel Eliot Morison; the astronomer Benjamin Peirce; the physicist Wolcott Gibbs; and the naturalist Louis Agassiz are other prominent academic personalities who graduated from or taught at Harvard.

 

John Harvard

John Harvard, sculpture by Daniel Chester French; in front of University Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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At its inception Harvard was under church patronage, but it was not officially affiliated with any religious organization. The college was steadily freed over its first two decades, first from clerical and then from political influence, until university alumni began voting members of the governing board in 1865. Charles W. Eliot made Harvard an institution of national influence during his lengthy term as president of Harvard (1869–1909).

Harvard's undergraduate school, comprises around one-third of the overall student body. The nucleus of the teaching staff of the university consists of the faculty of arts and sciences, which comprises the arts and sciences graduate faculty. The college has pharmacy, law, business, divinity, education, government, dental medicine, architecture, and public health graduate or technical schools. The schools of law, medicine, and business are highly prestigious. The Museum of Comparative Zoology (founded in 1859 by Agassiz), the Gray Herbarium, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Arnold Arboretum and the Fogg Art Museum are among the advanced research institutions associated with Harvard. An astronomical observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts is also affiliated with the university; the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Museum in Washington, D.C., a center for Byzantine and pre-Columbian studies;and the Harvard-Yenching Institute in Cambridge for research on East and Southeast Asia. The Harvard University Library is one of the largest and most important university libraries in the world.