A comprehensive university that focuses on cultivating graduate students and engaging in scientific research.
Formerly known as Harvard College.
On October 28, 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Assembly passed a resolution and decided to build an institution of higher learning like the University of Cambridge in England.
School officially opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1638, with 4 students in the first class.
On September 14, 1638, J., pastor and president of Emmanuel College.
When Harvard died of illness, he donated part of his estate and more than 400 books to the school.
On March 13, 1639, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Assembly passed a resolution naming the school Harvard College.
During its first century and a half, the school system was largely modeled on European universities.
The professorship of theology was formally established in 1721, the professorship of mathematics and natural sciences in 1727, and the professorship of medicine in 1780.
In the same year, it was expanded into Harvard University; the Divinity School was established in 1816, and the Law School was established in 1817. After that, each school was established one after another in the 19th century.
The School of Education was established in 1990; the School of Political Science was established in 1936 (named the J.F. Kennedy School of Political Science in 1966).
Since 1966, Harvard University has established 10 graduate schools, namely liberal arts, business management, design, dental medicine, theology, education, law, medicine, public health and the Kennedy School of Politics; 2 recruit undergraduates
Colleges, namely Harvard College and Radcliffe College; and the Office of Continuing Education, which is responsible for summer schools, affiliated courses and lifelong learning centers.
Three graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, and public health are established in Boston, and the remaining schools are concentrated in Cambridge.
Each college is relatively independent.
Historically, six of Harvard's graduates have been elected presidents of the United States.
They are John Adams (the second president of the United States), John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt (reelected four terms) and John F. Kennedy.
Harvard University's professors have produced a total of 34 Nobel Laureates.
Today, Harvard University has developed into a large institution with ten graduate schools, more than 40 departments, and more than 100 majors.
There are 18,000 degree candidates officially registered, mainly graduate students, but also undergraduate students.
A further 13,000 non-degree students study one or more courses at its extension colleges.
There are more than 14,000 faculty and staff working at Harvard University, including more than 2,000 professors and lecturers.
There are also more than 7,000 faculty members working in various teaching hospitals.
Over the years, in addition to educating a large number of American students, Harvard University has also admitted a large number of international students and visiting scholars from all over the world.
Its headquarters is located in Cambridge, the historical and cultural city of Boston, and its medical school and business school are located in downtown Boston.
In the city of Cambridge, adjacent to Harvard University is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is equally famous and is also the world's number one university.
Interestingly, there is no clear line between the two campuses.
In 1986, Harvard University celebrated its 350th anniversary.
Harvard University was born in 1636, the 16th year after the British Puritans immigrated to Plymouth in 1620 (China was at the end of the Ming Dynasty at that time). It was established in compliance with the vote of the Supreme Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
It was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, a young pastor who left his library and half of his property to the new school when he died in 1638.
Since many Puritans were born in Cambridge University, they named the new town where Harvard University is located Cambridge.
Initially the school had only one male teacher and nine students.
The curriculum offered in the school's early years was based on the model of British universities, but ideologically consistent with the Puritan philosophy prevalent in this colonial pioneer.
Although many of its early graduates became ministers in Puritan settlements throughout New England, the school never formally affiliated with a particular denomination.
An early pamphlet published in 1643 spelled out Harvard's existence: "to promote knowledge and perpetuate it to posterity." Yes, there was Harvard, and then there was America.
——Inscription: The First University in the United States At the end of the 15th century, after Columbus opened up the Atlantic route from Europe to the Americas, Europeans traveled across the ocean to come to the Americas.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the first batch of British immigrants arrived in North America and opened up their own "Garden of Eden" - New England.