Harvard University
42 22'28 "N 71 07'01" W / 42.37444, -71.11694
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| Original Name | Harvard University | ||||||
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| Foundation | 1636 | ||||||
| Type | Private University | ||||||
| Staffing | 25 billion | ||||||
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| City | Nasson ah ha nathan ,  Massachusetts | ||||||
| Country |  United States | ||||||
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| President | Drew Gilpin Faust , . Harvard is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. She topped the academic ranking of world universities established by researchers from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is part of the Ivy League , informal association of eight universities, the oldest and most famous of the United States. Forty-five Nobel emerged from its ranks (2010) . Harvard University is also the richest in the world. The faculty consists of 2 497 teachers for 9,715 students' undergraduate 'and 15 424 students "graduate". Harvard attracts students from around the world (132 countries represented in 2004 ).
HistoryHarvard in the Colonial Era  The origins of the site dates back to 1635 when French Jesuits established a college Jesuit to the attention of Native Americans and Catholic missions of New France . But the real college, as we know it today, was founded a year later, in 1636 , by a vote of the General Assembly of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in 1639 , it is called "Harvard" in honor of John Harvard of Charlestown , a young pastor Puritan who in 1638 bequeathed his library and half his estate to the young institution . At its inception, the institution has only nine students and a teacher, Nathaniel Eaton ; education is close to that which was taught in England but under the influence of puritanism of the early settlers of New England. Harvard then formed many pastors. The first scholarship was founded in 1643 . During the Revolutionary War , American soldiers are housed in Massachusetts Hall . The designation of "university" by cons, only dates from 1780. Development in the nineteenth century As the university expands, the courses offered are diversifying and the place attracts renowned professors: the poet Henry Longfellow (1807-1882) and James Russell Lowell (1817-1891), the philosopher William James (1842 - 1910), George Santayana (1863-1952) or the scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). It is chaired by Charles W. Eliot (in) between 1869 and 1909 that Harvard is a modern: the schools of commerce , dentistry, and arts and sciences are based. The university opened to women with the creation of the Harvard Annex in 1879, which became Radcliffe College in 1894 . Finally, the number of students multiplied by three . History of Harvard in the twentieth centuryUnder the chairmanship of Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-1933), Harvard has a system of mentoring. The campus was expanded with the "House Plan" which envisages the construction of twelve dormitories, each with a dining hall and a library . Each student house offers cultural, social and sporting activities. It was at Harvard on June 5 1947 , the Secretary of State George Marshall delivered his famous speech launching the European Recovery Program (European Recovery Program or ERP), known in France under the name " Marshall Plan ". Faculties Harvard now comprises nine faculties ("options"), whose list is as follows (in order of their creation):
Student Organizations at Harvard The first student associations date back to the eighteenth century: in 1719, the Society of Young Students have already gathered to honor God .
Libraries and Culture The library system of the university (Harvard University Library System) has more than 90 libraries whose primary purpose is the Widener Library in Harvard Yard (in) and more than 15 million books , . It is considered the fourth largest in the world behind the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the British Library and National Library of France. Harvard has the largest university library in the world . This place is still disputed by the University of California in which libraries of all campuses together 34 million volumes . Harvard libraries also keep rare books, archival documents and manuscripts old. Baker Library has documents of the fifteenth century . Old maps and two globes of Mercator dating from the sixteenth century are exhibited in the library of Harvard College . The collections of the Harvard-Yenching Library include more than one million documents relating to Asia, including 659,000 Chinese and 296,000 Japanese . Harvard also has several museums and exhibition centers: the three main museums employ 275 employees, 150 000 home run and works with a total annual budget of 21 million : 
The American Repertory Theatre has an annual budget of 8 million and has two theaters for a total of 700 seats . Harvard has several amateur groups: 19 in dance, theater and 16 in five symphony orchestras . Each year, 450 concerts and 70 theater performances are held on campus . The publisher of Harvard publishes about 130 books each year . Founded in 1913 , the Harvard University Press are among the oldest in the country. Organization and administrationAdmissions and curriculumToday, 23 000 students pass a degree at Harvard. In 2003, 8.3% of students undergraduates were foreigners and 66% came from public high schools . The university employs 14,000 people including 2,000 teachers . Budget and FinancingIn 2009, revenues amounted to 3.8 billion dollars for fiscal year 2009, the budget is in balance. Revenue comes from different sources. Investment income ranks first with more than 40% of the total. These are mainly from the endowment , capital invested and managed on behalf of the university . Its value was estimated at 26 billion euros in June 2009 , making it the richest university in the world to Yale. Billing courses to students represents about 18% of income, and federal subsidies, especially those of the National Institute of Health , 15%. Other grants and donations also contribute to the budget. Donations from alumni can carry large sums of money. Thus, for the year 2005, the Harvard Business School has raised about 579 million . The endowment of Harvard, like other large U.S. private universities is largely placed on financial markets. A small half is invested in equities and the remainder in various products . Its value can fluctuate significantly. According to figures from the university, its average annual real growth was 6.7% per year between 1974 and June 2006, when he was 26 billion dollars . Two years later, it reached 39.2 billion. In June 2009, however, the amount fell to 26 billion because of stock market crisis . Cost of studiesTuition fees are comparable to those of other major American universities. They depend on the chosen course and the level of education and various other criteria. For example, in 2009-2010, PhD from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pay about 34,000 dollars if they are in their first or second year, but 9000 dollars if they are third or fourth year . There are different systems of scholarships and grants . The academic year costs 50,723 (with accommodation on campus - required the first year - and so on.) . 70% of students receive some form of assistance, about 60% receive a grant , admission is based on student performance and does not include resources for students, financing solutions are found for all students admitted . Presidents of Harvard
Alumni There is a category dedicated to this subject: Student at Harvard University. Scores of persons have been educated at Harvard. Among them, there are 45 Nobel Prize (2010) , eight U.S. presidents ( John Adams , John Quincy Adams , Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Rutherford B. Hayes , John Fitzgerald Kennedy , George W. Bush and Barack Obama ) and numerous foreign heads of state . ArchitectureSeveral campus buildings are classified as heritage ( National Historic Landmark )
The Wadsworth House dates from 1726 . It housed the headquarters of George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Widener Library (Widener Memorial Library) was built in 1913 - 1915 / Sup>, thanks to a donation from Eleanor Elkins Widener in memory of his son, alumnus of Harvard and died on the Titanic. Memorial Church, built in 1932 Sports Harvard has several athletic facilities as Lavietes Pavilion, a multi-room where particular teams play basketball at the university. The Malkin Athletic Center or "MAC" includes an Olympic pool and a smaller pool for other activities, track cycling, halls for basketball, etc.. It is also the MAC teams played volleyball , with fencing and fighting. The coaches also have their offices. The Bright Hockey Center is used by teams of ice hockey and the Murr Center serves the players to tennis and squash. In 2006, there were 41 sports teams in Division I sports university, more than any other university in the country. Like other institutions in the Ivy League , Harvard does not award scholarships to college sports. In sport, Harvard is the rival of Yale University : the key moment of this rivalry comes each fall when the game football , held since 1875, and is simply known by the phrase "The Game" ( "The Party"). Yale's victory in 2006 ended five consecutive years of supremacy of Harvard. The tradition of former American football is at Harvard. One of the first games took place June 4, 1875 against the Tufts University. The Harvard Stadium, the venue of the football games was built in 1903. The rivalry between Yale and Harvard is also manifested in a rowing race held on the Thames River in Connecticut in June. Today, sports teams from Harvard are among the best in the country, especially in ice hockey (with a great rivalry with Cornell ) in squash, or fencing. Harvard also won the championship varsity sailing in 2003. Filmed at Harvard University: Films whose action takes place at Harvard University: Movies and Series, part of the action takes place at Harvard University: | ||||||
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