哈佛大学 (Harvard University)是美国历史最悠久的一流学府之一，坐落于马萨诸塞州剑桥，隔查尔斯河与波士顿相望。哈佛大学有两所学院招收本科生，即哈佛学院和拉德克利夫学院，它们招收的学生约占哈佛大学全体学生的一半。哈佛大学是常春藤联校之一。
Harvard University (Harvard University) is the longest in U.S. history one of the first-class academic institution, is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Boston and across the Charles River. Harvard University has two colleges to recruit students, Harvard College and Radcliffe College, which recruited the students about half of all students at Harvard University. Ivy Harvard University is one of the school.
哈佛大学创建于1636年，原称剑桥学院。出生于伦敦的英国牧师约翰·哈佛(John Harvard， 英国剑桥大学毕业) 于1637年由英国到此新建的学院内工作，由于工作很积极，得到好评。他将其全部藏书和一半资产捐赠给这所学院，该校因此而改名为哈佛大学。1638年夏天学校开学时只有一名教师、一所木板房和一个“校院”。
Harvard University, founded in 1636, formerly known as Cambridge College. Born in London, the British minister John Harvard (John Harvard, graduating from the University of Cambridge in England) in 1637 by the British Institute in this new work, the work is very positive, be praised. He will all of its collections and half of these assets donated to the institute, the school be renamed the Harvard University. 1638 summer school at only one school teachers, a Muban Fang and a "School House."
哈佛创建初期是由教会主办的，但在头200年中，就逐渐地摆脱了宗教和政治的控制。1865年，该校校友开始选举学校管理委员会。19世纪初开设了神学院、法学院和医学院。19世纪中期，哈佛的劳伦斯科学学院为美国应用科学的发展作出了贡献。
Harvard created by the early church-sponsored, but in the first 200 years, to gradually shake off the religious and political control. 1865, the school alumni proceed to the election of the school management committee. The early 19th century opened a seminary, and the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine. The mid-19th century, the Harvard School of the Lawrence scientific application of science for the United States has contributed to the development.
埃利奥特任哈佛校长期间（1869至1909年），将哈佛办成了具有全国影响的学校。他采用选修制，取代了刻板的古典课程，学生们可以攻读他们感兴趣的专业。今天的哈佛大学已是一个多学科的综合性大学。
Elliott president of the Harvard period (1869-1909), will be the Harvard of the impact of national schools. He used an elective system, replacing the stereotype of classical courses, students can pursue their professional interest. Today's Harvard is already a multi-disciplinary comprehensive university.
2007年10月12日，德鲁·吉尔平·福斯特就任哈佛大学第28任校长。她是该校历史上任命的第一位女校长。
哈佛大学设有17个学科系，分属2个本科生学院（哈佛学院和拉德克利夫学院）和10个研究生学院：文理学院、医学院、教育学院、设计学院、公共卫生学院、行政管理学院、法学院、牙医学院、神学院和商学院。与它有直接联系的有95家图书馆、7个植物研究所、2个天文台、50余个科学、工程和医学实验室、9家自然历史、医学、艺术和考古博物馆。哈佛大学还拥有许多著名的研究中心，如国际事务研究中心、教育政策研究中心、环境设计研究中心、电子计算机研究中心等。东方研究中心燕京研究所，是个专门研究中国问题的机构，受到美国著名中国问题专家费正清长期支持。
October 12, 2007, Delujier-Foster as president of Harvard University No. 28. She is the history of the school appointed the first Nvxiao Zhang.
Harvard University has 17 of the subjects, belong to two college students (Harvard College and Radcliffe College) and 10 graduate schools: College of Arts, School of Medicine, Institute of Education, School of Design, School of Public Health, administration College of Law, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Theology and the School of Business. And it is directly linked to a 95 libraries, 7 Institute of Botany, two Observatory, more than 50 science, engineering and medical laboratories, nine natural history, medicine, art and archaeological museums. Harvard University also has many well-known research centres, such as the Centre for the Study of International Affairs, Education Policy Research Center, Environmental Design Research Center, a computer research centre. Oriental Research Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute, a specialized study of China, the United States by the well-known China experts Fairbank long-term support.
哈佛大学研究院兼收男女生。大学生有男校及女交。哈佛学院 (Harvard College) 专收男生。拉德克利夫学院 (Radcliffe College)，创于1879年，专收女生。大学生进入一年级必须住在学院内。二年级学生住在校园外13座各自独立的居住区内。自创办以来，哈佛已为美国培养出了众多的政治家、科学家、企业家、作家、学者。包括30多名诺贝尔奖金获得者、29名普利策奖金获得者和6位总统：第2任总统约翰·亚当斯、第6届总统约翰·昆西·亚当斯、第19任总统拉瑟福德·海斯、第26任总统西奥多·罗斯福和第35任总统约翰·肯尼迪，以及一批法官、内阁官员和国会领袖。
哈佛占地380英亩，正中有建于30年代的纪念教堂，周围是学生宿舍、图书馆和教室等各种不同风格的建筑，其中如霍尔登小教堂、马萨诸塞堂（现存最早的哈佛建筑，建于1720年）、哈佛堂和维德纳图书馆都是著名的古建筑，具有旧大陆建筑的庄严典雅之美。当然校园中也不乏崭新的现代化校舍。学校里处处是青青的草坪，蔽日的榆树，那一幢幢红砖砌成并爬满长青藤的楼房，使人感到亲切和宁静。漫步校园，人们会注意到这里竖立着一块龟背驮着的高大石碑，这是中国哈佛同学会1936年在哈佛三百年校庆时赠送的礼物。自清末以来，这里就有众多的中国学子就读，王安、贝聿铭就是其中的佼佼者。
哈佛拥有9座博物馆，它们既为教学服务，又向公众开放。最值得参观的要数植物学博物馆。在这里，瑞士的龙胆草伴随着墨西哥的仙人掌，埃及的蓝睡莲映衬着朝鲜的金达莱， 还有中国的梅花和牡丹。名花奇卉约有800多种，色彩鲜艳而且永不谢，原来它们是植物的玻璃模型，俗称“玻璃花”，由两位德国艺术大师穷毕生精力制成，是世界上的绝品，人们誉之为“科学中的艺术奇迹，艺术中的科学奇迹”。
Harvard University Institute of integrated boys and girls. School and university students are men and women pay. Harvard College (Harvard College) to the boys. Radcliffe College (Radcliffe College), founded in 1879, the admission of girls. Students entering first grade must live in College. Students living on campus in 13 separate living area. Since its inception, Harvard has nurtured many U.S. politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, scholars.
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Harvard University
I INTRODUCTION
Harvard University, private, coeducational institution of higher education, the oldest in the United States, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
II HISTORY AND ADMINISTRATION
In 1636 a college was founded in Cambridge by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was opened for instruction two years later and named in 1639 for English clergyman John Harvard, its first benefactor. The college at first lacked substantial endowments and existed on gifts from individuals and the General Court. Harvard gradually acquired considerable autonomy and private financial support, becoming a chartered university in 1780. Today it has the largest private endowment of any university in the world.
Harvard has steadily developed under the great American educators who have successively served as its presidents. During the presidency of Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909), Harvard established an elective system for undergraduates, by which they could choose most of their courses themselves. Under Abbott L. Lowell, who was president from 1909 to 1933, the undergraduate house systems of residence and instruction were introduced. Academic growth and physical expansion continued during the tenures of James B. Conant (1933-1953), Nathan M. Pusey (1953-1971), and Derek C. Bok (1971-1991). Neil L. Rudenstine was appointed president in 1991.
Sponsored by Henry Rosovsky, former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences (1973-1984), the undergraduate elective system, or General Education Program, was replaced in 1979 by a Core Curriculum intended to prepare well-educated men and women for the challenges of modern life. Students are now required to take courses for the equivalent of an academic year in each of five areas: literature and arts, history, social analysis and moral reasoning, science, and foreign cultures. In addition to the new curriculum, students must spend roughly the equivalent of two years on courses in a field of concentration and one year on elective courses. Students must also demonstrate competence in writing, mathematics, and a foreign language.
From its earliest days Harvard established and maintained a tradition of academic excellence and the training of citizens for national public service. Among many notable alumni are the religious leaders Increase Mather and Cotton Mather; the philosopher and psychologist William James; and men of letters such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot. More U.S. presidents have attended Harvard than any other college: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. A sixth, Rutherford B. Hayes, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, which also counts the jurists Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Felix Frankfurter among its alumni.
Harvard University is governed by a corporation (the oldest corporation in the United States) known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The corporation consults with a 30-member Board of Overseers elected by the alumni.
III UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITIES
Harvard College, the university’s oldest division, offers undergraduate courses for men and women, leading to a bachelor of arts degree granted by the university. Beginning in 1963, graduates of Radcliffe College, the affiliated undergraduate institution for women, received Harvard degrees with the Radcliffe seal and countersigned by the president of Radcliffe. In the 1970s, Harvard abolished the quota limiting the number of women students, and a joint Harvard and Radcliffe Admissions Office began selecting students on an equal basis. In 1999 Harvard fully absorbed Radcliffe and created the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which focuses on the study of women and gender. With admission criteria ranking among the most selective in the United States, Harvard accepts less than 20 percent of all applicants; three-fourths of those accepted actually enroll.
During their freshman year, students live in halls within Harvard Yard, a walled enclosure containing several structures from the early 18th century now used as dormitories, dining facilities, libraries, and classrooms. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors live in the 12 residences known as houses. Named in honor of a distinguished alumnus or administrator, each house accommodates approximately 350 students and a group of faculty members who provide individual instruction as tutors, fostering social and intellectual exchange between students and teachers. Each house also has a library and sponsors cultural activities and intramural athletics. Undergraduate life has the additional attraction of proximity to Boston.
IV GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL FACILITIES
Harvard’s graduate and professional facilities, founded over the last 200 years, include schools of arts and sciences, business administration, dental medicine, design, divinity, education, law, medicine, public administration (now the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government), and public health. Special studies programs are also provided at the Harvard-Yenching Institute; the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research; the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian Studies; and at the centers for Middle Eastern Studies, International Affairs, International Legal Studies, Energy and International Policy, and Health Policy Management.
V SPECIAL FACILITIES
The Harvard campus is also the site of several renowned museums and collections, among them the Fogg Museum, distinguished for its European and American paintings, sculptures, and prints; the Botanical Museum; and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Harvard’s library system is the oldest in the United States. The central library collection, used for advanced scholarly research, is housed in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. Augmented by the Houghton Library of rare books and manuscripts, the undergraduate Lamont, Cabot, and Hilles libraries, and the separate house and departmental libraries, as well as by the graduate schools’ collections, the Harvard library complex forms the world’s largest university library system. It currently contains more than 13 million volumes, manuscripts, and microfilms.
Harvard University also maintains the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston; the Harvard College Observatory, based in Cambridge; the research center for Byzantine and Early Christian studies at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C.; and Villa I Tatti in Settignano, Italy, formerly the home and library of art critic Bernard Berenson and now a center for art history research.
Home games of the Harvard Crimson football team and other athletic events take place at Harvard Stadium, which has a seating capacity of more than 38,000. Yale University is Harvard’s traditional rival in sports.
VI PUBLICATIONS
Undergraduate publications include the Harvard Crimson, a daily newspaper founded in 1873; the Harvard Advocate, a literary review; and a nationally known humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon. Among journals issued by Harvard’s graduate schools and affiliated groups are the Harvard Business Review,Harvard Educational Review, and Harvard Law Review. Harvard University Press, founded in 1913, publishes books of scholarly as well as general interest and medical and scientific works.