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Harvard University
is a private
university
in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
, and a member of the
Ivy League
. Harvard was started on
September 8
,
1636
, and it is the oldest university in the United States. Harvard's current president is Lawrence Bacow. The school color is
crimson
, which is a dark
red
color.
Harvard used
slaves
to serve its leaders and students, and the merchants who used their money to start the school used slaves too.
[7]
Also, “Harvard students slept in beds and ate meals prepared by slaves, and many grew up to be prominent slave-holders in early America."
[8]
In the 20th century, the university invested millions of dollars in
apartheid
South Africa.
[9]
Harvard is on the
Charles River
. Some students go to the Charles River for
rowing
. On the other side of the Charles River is the city of
Boston
. Boston's
subway
system has a stop at Harvard. Some of Harvard's graduate schools are in Boston, but most of Harvard's schools are in Cambridge. Together, these schools are Harvard
University
.
Harvard has many libraries like
Widener Library
. There are other facilities like
skating rinks
and the Malkin Athletic Center where students can
swim
and
exercise
.
Harvard is almost always ranked as one of the best universities in the world. Another famous school close to Harvard in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
is the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). Eight
Presidents of the United States
have
graduated
from Harvard.
[10]
Harvard has over $40 billion. There have been 161 Nobel Laureates from Harvard University.
[11]
- John Adams
, 2nd
President of the United States
- George W. Bush
, 43rd President of the United States
- Bill Gates
, Founder of
Microsoft
- Al Gore
, 45th
Vice President of the United States
- John F. Kennedy
, 35th President of the United States
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
, 32nd President of the United States
- Theodore Roosevelt
, 26th President of the United States
- Natalie Portman
, Actress & filmmaker
- Mark Zuckerberg
, Founder & CEO of
Facebook
- Barack Obama
, 44th President of the United States
- ↑
Appearing as it does on the coat of arms itself,
Veritas
is not a motto in the usual
heraldic
sense. Properly speaking, rather, Harvard's
original motto is
Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae
("Truth for Christ and the Church")
Archived
2010-07-02 at the
Wayback Machine
as shown on
Harvard's original shield
or
seal
. This legend is otherwise not used today.
- ↑
An appropriation of £400 toward a "school or college" was voted on October 28, 1636 (OS), at a meeting which initially convened on September 8 and was adjourned to October 28. Some sources consider October 28, 1636 (OS) (November 7, 1636 NS) to be the date of founding. In 1936, Harvard's multi-day tercentenary celebration considered that Harvard rocks, on September 18 to be the 300-year anniversary of the founding. (The bicentennial was celebrated on September 8, 1836, apparently ignoring the calendar change; and the tercentenary celebration began by opening a package sealed by
Josiah Quincy
at the bicentennial). Sources: meeting dates,
Quincy, Josiah (1860).
History of Harvard University
. 117 Washington Street, Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Co.
ISBN
9780405100161
.
{{
cite book
}}
: CS1 maint: location (
link
)
,
p. 586
, "At a Court holden September 8th, 1636 and continued by adjournment to the 28th of the 8th month (October, 1636)... the Court agreed to give £400 towards a School or College, whereof £200 to be paid next year...." Tercentenary dates:
"Cambridge Birthday"
. Time Magazine. 1936-09-28. Archived from
the original
on 2012-12-05
. Retrieved
2006-09-08
.
: "Harvard claims birth on the day the Massachusetts Great and General Court convened to authorize its founding. This was Sept. 8, 1637 under the Julian calendar. Allowing for the ten-day advance of the Gregorian calendar, Tercentenary officials arrived at Sept. 18 as the date for the third and last big Day of the celebration;" "r that 'school or college' [was voted by] the Great and General Court of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
." Bicentennial date:
Marvin Hightower (2003-09-02).
"Harvard Gazette: This Month in Harvard History"
. Harvard University. Archived from
the original
on 2006-09-08
. Retrieved
2006-09-15
.
, "Sept. 8, 1836 - Some 1,100 to 1,300 alumni flock to Harvard's Bicentennial, at which a professional choir premieres "Fair Harvard." ... guest speaker Josiah Quincy Jr., Class of 1821, makes a motion, unanimously adopted, 'that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September, 1936.'" Tercentary opening of Quincy's sealed package:
The New York Times,
September 9, 1936, p. 24, "Package Sealed in 1836 Opened at Harvard. It Held Letters Written at Bicentenary": "September 8th, 1936: As the first formal function in the celebration of Harvard's tercentenary, the Harvard Alumni Association witnessed the opening by President Conant of the 'mysterious' package sealed by President Josiah Quincy at the Harvard bicentennial in 1836."
- ↑
Mendillo, Jane L.
"September 2011 Harvard Management Company Endowment Report"
(PDF)
. Harvard Management Company
. Retrieved
23 September
2011
.
[
permanent dead link
]
- ↑
"U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2011 Endowment Market Value"
(PDF)
. National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on September 15, 2012
. Retrieved
October 29,
2012
.
- ↑
Office of Institutional Research. (2009). "Faculty".
Harvard University Fact Book
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2012-04-25
. Retrieved
2011-10-13
.
("Unduplicated, Paid Instructional Faculty Count: 2,107. Unduplicated instructional faculty count is the most appropriate count for general reporting purposes.")
- ↑
"Faculties and Allied Institutions"
(PDF)
. Office of the Provost, Harvard University. 2009. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on September 5, 2012
. Retrieved
August 27,
2010
.
- ↑
Sven Beckert; Katherine Stevens; et al. (2011).
"Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History"
(PDF)
. Harvard University. pp. 7?8.
- ↑
Walters, Lindsey (2017).
"Slavery and the American university: discourses of retrospective justice at Harvard and Brown"
.
Slavery & Abolition
.
38
(4): 719?744.
doi
:
10.1080/0144039X.2017.1309875
.
S2CID
219698319
.
- ↑
"Harvard's Investments in Southern Africa"
.
The Black Scholar
.
3
(5): 25?32. 1972-01-01.
doi
:
10.1080/00064246.1972.11431212
.
ISSN
0006-4246
– via Taylor & Francis.
- ↑
"Obama joins list of seven presidents with Harvard degrees"
.
Harvard Gazette
. 6 November 2008
. Retrieved
13 March
2024
.
- ↑
Roberta Frye (August 2, 2023).
"Universities with Most Nobel Laureates in the World"
. Retrieved
September 10,
2023
.