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- Web: http://www.harvard.edu/
- Phone: (+1) -617-495-1000
- Creation date: 1636
- No. Students: 21225
- No. Teachers: 2107
About Harvard
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. For students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard offers an unparalleled student experience and a generous financial aid program, with over $160 million awarded to more than 60% of our undergraduate students. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education.
Harvard University is the college oldest in the United States. It emerged in 1636 with the name of New College and The College at New Towne and subsequently changed its name to Harvard College, in recognition of its principal benefactor, John Harvard of Charleston, who donated to the institution your comprised of more than 400 books library all their savings (779 lbs). Its present name first appears in the new Constitution of Massachusetts, in 1870.
The English settlers who stood on the other side of the bank of the Charles River in Massachusetts wanted to create near Boston area emulating the ancient English universities. Therefore they called to that area depopulated Cambridge and she were laying the leading educational institutions in the region, including Harvard University.
In 1776 Harvard Corporation and Overseees approved grant the Continental Army (the army that drove the British out of Boston and the fighting George Washington) Doctorate Honoris Causa general. In 1789, George Washington visited Harvard and the first president of the United States.
In 1836, during the celebration of the centenary of its creation the shield of the university in which three open books, symbol of knowledge along with the Latin word Veritas (truth) are presented. It was first used in 1843 and today remains.
The institution, as we know it today, was transformed during the tenure of president Charles William Eliot (late nineteenth century). During the forty years of his mandate, the institution became a modern research center, classes reduced the number of students began to be taught elective courses and exams started.
Today its prestige and academic excellence is recognized nationally and internationally, and Harvard University is considered the best university in the world according to different university rankings. By their classrooms have passed VIPs for history, not only in this country but for the history of mankind. A total of 40 Nobel prizes eight US presidents have gone through some of its faculties and schools.
Its founder, John Harvard, has a commemorative statue is known as the "three lies" because the principal is not its founder, but a student; date does not match that of the foundation; and the university originally was not called that. Anecdotally it is noteworthy that students before an exam come face to rub the metal foot to give them luck.
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