历史
Harvard University  is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature,[2] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and currently comprises由构成 ten separate academic units. It is also the first and oldest corporation in the United States
Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639. It was named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from the London Borough区 of Southwark and alumnus of Cambridge University (after which Cambridge, Massachusetts is named), who bequeathed馈赠 the College his library of four hundred books and £779 (which was half of his estate), assuring its continued operation.[7] The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
During his 40-year tenure as Harvard president (1869–1909), Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels.
Harvard has the second-largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization (behind the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), standing at $26 billion as of September 2009
学术机构
Harvard today has nine faculties, listed below in order of foundation:
∙ The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and its sub-faculty, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which together serve:
o Harvard College, the university's undergraduate portion (1636)
o The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (organized 1872)
o The Harvard Division of Continuing Education, including Harvard Summer School (1871) and Harvard Extension School (1909).
∙ The Faculty of Medicine, including the Medical School (1782)
∙ The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (1867).
∙ Harvard Divinity School (1816)
∙ Harvard Law School (1817) clergyman
∙ Harvard Business School (1908)
∙ The Graduate School of Design (1914)
∙ The Graduate School of Education (1920)
∙ The School of Public Health (1922)
∙ Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1936)
In 1999, the former Radcliffe College was reorganized as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
In February 2007, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers formally approved the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to become the 14th School of Harvard (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences).
录取
Harvard College accepted 7% of applicants for the class of 2013, a record low for the school's entire history.[84] The number of acceptances was lower for the class of 2013 partially because the university anticipated increased rates of enrollment after announcing a large increase in financial aid in 2008. For the class of 2011, Harvard accepted fewer than 9% of applicants, with a yield of 80%. US News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2009" ranked Harvard #2 in selectivity (in a tie with Yale, Princeton and MIT, beh
ind Caltech), and first in rank of the best national universities.[85]
体育
Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in their annual football meeting, which dates back to 1875 and is usually called simply The Game. While Harvard's football team is no longer one of the country's best teams as it often was a century ago during football's early days (it won the Rose Bowl in 1920), both it and Yale have influenced the way the game is played.
Older than The Game by 23 years, the Harvard-Yale Regatta划船 was the original source of the athletic rivalry between the two schools. It is held annually in June on the Thames River in eastern Connecticut. The Harvard crew is typically considered to be one of the top teams in the country in rowing. Today, Harvard field’s top teams in several other sports, such as ice hockey (with a strong rivalry against Cornell), squash墙网球; 壁球, and even recently won NCAA titles in Men's and Women's Fencing击剑. Harvard also won the Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships in 2003.

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