HARVARD UNIVERSITY

 Harvard university is an american private ivy league research university located in cambridge, massachusetts of us. it was eventually established in 1636 from the massachusetts legislature. harvard is that the oldest institution of higher learning within the us and the very first corporation ( officially the president and fellows of harvard college ) chartered within the country. harvards history, influence, and wealth have made it possibly one of the most prestigious universities in the planet.

  Harvard was named after its first benefactor, john harvard. though never formally affiliated utilizing a church, the college primarily trained congregationalist and unitarian clergy. harvards curriculum and students became secular throughout the entire 18th century and from the 19th century had emerged just like the central cultural establishment among boston elites. following the american civil war, president charles w. eliots forty-year tenure ( 1869–1909 ) transformed the college and affiliated skilled schools into your centralized research university, and harvard became a founding member of one's association of american universities in 1900. james bryant conant led the university throughout the nice depression and world war ii and began to actuallyreform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. the undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with radcliffe college. drew gilpin faust was elected the 28th president in 2007 and is the very first lady to actually lead the university. harvard delivers the largest money endowment of any tutorial institution in the planet, standing at $32 billion as of september 2011.

  The university comprises eleven separate tutorial units -ten faculties and of course

the radcliffe institute for advanced study- with campuses throughout the entire boston metropolitan area. harvards 210-acre ( 85 ha ) main campus is centered on harvard yard in cambridge, approximately 3. 4 miles ( 5. 5 km ) northwest of downtown boston. the business college and athletics facilities, together with harvard stadium, are located across the charles river within the allston neighborhood of boston and of course the medical, dental, and public health schools are located within the longwood medical area.

  Eight u. s. presidents are graduates, and 75 nobel laureates are student, faculty, or staff affiliates. harvard can be the alma mater of sixty-two living billionaires, one of the within the country. the harvard university library is that the largest tutorial library within the us, and possibly one of the largest in the planet.

the harvard crimson competes in 41 intercollegiate sports within the ncaa division i ivy league. harvard has an intense athletic rivalry with yale university traditionally culminating within the game, though the harvard–yale regatta predates the soccer game. this rivalry, though, is place aside every 2 years in the event the harvard and yale track and field groups assemble to actually compete against a combined oxford university and cambridge university team, a competition that's the oldest continuous international amateur competition in the planet.