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　　HarvardUniversity(incorporatedasThePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege)isaprivateuniversityinCambridge,Massachusetts.Foundedin1636,HarvardistheoldestinstitutionofhigherlearningintheUnitedStates.Harvardconsistentlyranksamongthebestuniversitiesintheworld.

　　TheinstitutionwasnamedHarvardCollegeonMarch13,1639,afteritsfirstprincipaldonor,ayoungclergymannamedJohnHarvard.AgraduateofEmmanuelCollege,Cambridge,JohnHarvardbequeathedaboutfourhundredbooksinhiswilltoformthebasisofthecollegelibrarycollection,alongwithhalfhispersonalwealthworthseveralhundredpounds.TheearliestknownofficialreferencetoHarvardasa"university"ratherthana"college"occurredinthenewMassachusettsConstitutionof1780.

　　Inhis1869-1909tenureasHarvardpresident,CharlesWilliamEliotradicallytransformedHarvardintothepatternofthemodernresearchuniversity.Eliot'sreformsincludedelectivecourses,smallclasses,andentranceexaminations.TheHarvardmodelinfluencedAmericaneducationnationally,atbothcollegeandsecondarylevels.

　　In1999,RadcliffeCollege,initiallyfoundedasthe"HarvardAnnex"forwomen,mergedformallywithHarvardUniversity,becomingtheRadcliffeInstituteforAdvancedStudy.

　　Harvardhastheworld'sfourthlargestlibrarycollection(aftertheBritishLibrary,theLibraryofCongress,andtheFrenchBibliothèqueNationale),andthelargestfinancialendowmentofanyacademicinstitution,standingat$29.2billionasof2006(whichisalsothesecondlargestendowmentforanon-profitorganization,behindonlytheBill&MelindaGatesFoundation).

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　　HarvardUniversityisaprivateuniversityinCambridge,Massachusetts,USAandamemberoftheIvyLeague.HarvardwasfoundedonSeptember8,1636.

　　SevenPresidentsoftheUnitedStateshavegraduatedfromHarvardschoolsandcolleges.

　　HarvardislocatedontheCharlesRiver.SomestudentsgototheCharlesRiverforrowing.OnetheothersideoftheCharlesRiveristhecityofBoston.Boston'ssubwaysystem,calledthe"T"hasastopinHarvardSquare.TheHarvardBusinessSchoolandtheHarvardMedicalSchoolarebothlocatedontheothersideoftheCharlesRiverinBoston.TheyarenotinCambridge.HarvardCollege,SchoolofPublicHealth,HarvardGraduateSchoolofEducation,HarvardExtensionSchool,HarvardLawSchoolandsomeoftheotherschoolsareallinCambridge.Together,theseschoolsareHarvardUniversity.

　　Theschoolcoloriscrimsonwhichisadarkredcolor.

　　HarvardhasmanylibrarieslikeWidenerLibrary.ThereareotherfacilitieslikeskatingrinksandtheMalkinAthleticCenterwherestudentscanswimandexercise.

　　AnotherfamousschoolclosetoHarvardinCambridge,MassachusettsisMIT,ortheMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology.

　　Harvard'spresidentisLawrenceSummers.Mr.Summershasbeenacontroversialpresidentbecauseofhisopinionsandstyleofleadershipandmanagement.In2006,Mr.SummerstoldHarvard'sstudentsandprofessorsthathewillresigninthesummerandnolongerserveHarvardaspresident.Mr.SummersisaneconomistandusedtobetheUSSecretaryoftheTreasury.NowHarvardhastofindanewpresident.