Harvard University in Cambridge
Friday, 7 September 2018 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika Category/Kategorie: General , Architecture , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Harvard Law School Library in Langdell Hall at night © Chensiyuan/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Harvard University is a private
Ivy League research university in
Cambridge , Massachusetts. Established in 1636 and named for clergyman
John Harvard (its first benefactor), its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Harvard is the
United States’ oldest institution of higher learning , and the
Harvard Corporation is its first chartered
corporation . Although never formally affiliated with any
denomination , the early College primarily trained
Congregational and
Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century, Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among
Boston elites . Following the
American Civil War , President
Charles W. Eliot ‘s long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern
research university ; Harvard was a founding member of the
Association of American Universities in 1900.
A. Lawrence Lowell , who followed Eliot, further reformed the undergraduate curriculum and undertook aggressive expansion of Harvard’s land holdings and physical plant.
James Bryant Conant led the university through the
Great Depression and
World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with
Radcliffe College .
The university is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study —with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area : its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium , are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical , dental , and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area . The endowment of Harvard ‘s is worth $34.5 billion, making it the largest of any academic institution .
Harvard is a large, highly residential research university. The nominal cost of attendance is high, but the university’s large endowment allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. The Harvard Library is the world’s largest academic and private library system, comprising 79 individual libraries holding over 18 million items. Harvard’s alumni include eight U.S. presidents , several foreign heads of state, 62 living billionaires , 359 Rhodes Scholars , and 242 Marshall Scholars . To date, some 157 Nobel laureates , 18 Fields Medalists , and 14 Turing Award winners have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff. In addition, Harvard students and alumni have won 10 Academy Awards , 48 Pulitzer Prizes , and 108 Olympic medals (46 gold, 41 silver and 21 bronze) . Harvard has been among the top universities worldwide on various league tables .
Harvard Law School Library in Langdell Hall at night © Chensiyuan/cc-by-sa-4.0
The
Harvard University Library System is centered in
Widener Library in
Harvard Yard and comprises nearly 80 individual libraries holding over 18 million volumes. According to the
American Library Association , this makes it the largest academic library in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. Houghton Library, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and the Harvard University Archives consist principally of rare and unique materials. America’s oldest collection of maps, gazetteers, and atlases both old and new is stored in Pusey Library and open to the public. The largest collection of
East-Asian language material outside of East Asia is held in the
Harvard-Yenching Library . The
Harvard Art Museums comprise three museums. The
Arthur M. Sackler Museum includes collections of ancient, Asian, Islamic and later Indian art, the
Busch-Reisinger Museum , formerly the Germanic Museum, covers central and northern European art, and the
Fogg Museum of Art , covers Western art from the Middle Ages to the present emphasizing Italian
early Renaissance , British
pre-Raphaelite , and 19th-century French art. The
Harvard Museum of Natural History includes the
Harvard Mineralogical Museum ,
Harvard University Herbaria featuring the
Blaschka Glass Flowers exhibit, and the
Museum of Comparative Zoology . Other museums include the
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts , designed by
Le Corbusier , housing the film archive, the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology , specializing in the cultural history and civilizations of the Western Hemisphere, and the
Semitic Museum featuring artifacts from excavations in the Middle East.
Harvard University’s “schools” are:
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