Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 and named for pastor John Harvard (first donor), his history, influence, and wealth make him one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and Harvard Corporation is the first chartered company. Although never formally affiliated with any denominations, the early College primarily trained Congregational and Unitarian scholars. The curriculum and body of his students were gradually secularized during the eighteenth century, and by the nineteenth century, Harvard had emerged as a cultural center among Boston's elite. After the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long term (1869-1909) changed colleges and affiliated professional schools into modern research universities; Harvard was a founding member of the American University Association in 1900. A. Lawrence Lowell, who followed Eliot, further reformed the undergraduate curriculum and undertook the aggressive expansion of the Harvard land holdings and the physical plant. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began reforming the curriculum and liberalizing acceptance after the war. Undergraduate colleges became coeducational after the 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.
The university is organized in eleven separate academic units - ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area: its main campus of 209 hectares (85 ha) is centered at Harvard Yard in Cambridge, about 3 miles ) northwest of Boston; business schools and athletic facilities, including the Harvard Stadium, located across the Charles River in the Allston Boston neighborhood and the medical, dental and community health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Donations from Harvard are worth $ 34.5 billion, making it the largest of any academic institution.
Harvard is a huge research university. The cost of attendance is high, but the university's huge contribution allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. The Harvard Library is the world's largest library of academic and personal systems, comprising 79 individual libraries with over 18 million items. Harvard alumni include eight US presidents, several foreign heads of state, 62 live billionaires, 359 Rhodes Scholars, and 242 Marshall Scholars. To date, approximately 157 Nobel Prize winners, 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 medals).
Among the global rankings, The World University Academic Ranking ARWU ) has put Harvard as the world's best university every year since it was first released. When QS and Times Higher Education was published in partnership as THE QS World University Rankings during 2004-2009, Harvard also topped every year. In addition, THE World Reputation Rank has successively ranked Harvard as the top institution among the university's "six brands", others are Berkeley, Cambridge, MIT, Oxford and Stanford.
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History
Colonial
Harvard was founded in 1636 by the Supreme ballot and the Massachusetts Bay District General Court. In 1638, he acquired the first known printing press in North England. In 1639, it was named after Harvard College after the late pastor John Harvard, a Cambridge University alumnus, who had left school Ã, Â £ 779 and his ulayat library of about 400 volumes. The charter created the Harvard Corporation awarded in 1650.
A publication of 1643 provided the school's aim as "to advance learning and perpetuate it into posterity, fear of leaving illiterate ministry to churches when our ministers will now be lying in the dust"; in the early years trained many Puritan ministers. It offers a classic curriculum on a British university model? -? Many leaders in the colony have attended the University of Cambridge? -? But in accordance with the teachings of Puritanism. It was never affiliated with a particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become pastors in Congregational and Unitarian churches.
The leading Divine Improvement in Boston served as president from 1685 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was also not a minister, marking the turn of the college of Puritanism and toward intellectual independence.
19th century
Throughout the 18th century, the Enlightenment ideas of the power of reason and free will became widespread among the Congregational ministers, placing their ministers and sessions in tension with the more traditionalist Calvinist parties. When Hollis Professor of Divinity David Tappan died in 1803 and Harvard president Joseph Willard died a year later, in 1804, a struggle broke out because of their replacement. Henry Ware was elected president in 1805, and liberal Samuel Webber was appointed Harvard president two years later, signifying a tidal change from the domination of traditional ideas at Harvard to the dominance of the liberal idea, Arminian (defined by traditionalists as Unitarian ideas).
In 1846, Louis Agassiz's natural history lecture was well recognized in New York and on campus at Harvard College. Agassiz's approach is clearly idealistic and presupposes American participation in the "Divine Nature" and the possibility of understanding "intellectual existence". The Agassiz perspective on science combines observation with intuition and the assumption that one can understand the "divine plan" in all phenomena. When it came time to explain the life form, Agassiz chose the archetypal based forms for his evidence. This dual view of knowledge is in line with the teachings of Realism General Sense originating from the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid and Dugald Stewart, whose work was part of the Harvard curriculum at the time. The popularity of Agassiz's attempts to "soar with Plato" may also come from other writings presented by Harvard students, including Platonic treatises by Ralph Cudworth, John Norris and, in a Romantic tone, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The library records at Harvard reveal that Plato's writings and his modern and romantic followers were almost always read during the nineteenth century like the "official philosophy" of a more empirical and more deistic Scottish school.
Charles W. Eliot, president of 1869-1909, removed the favored position of Christianity from the curriculum while opening it to self-directed students. While Eliot was the most important figure in the secularization of American higher education, he was motivated not by the desire to secularize education, but by the beliefs of the Transcendentalist Unitarians. Coming from William Ellery Channing and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this belief focuses on the dignity and dignity of humanity, the right and the ability of everyone to understand the truth, and the God who lives within each person.
20th century
During the 20th century, Harvard's international reputation grew as a growing endowment and leading professors expanded the scope of the university. The rapid enrollment growth continues as new graduate schools begin and the College degree is expanded. Radcliffe College, founded in 1879 as a sister school at Harvard College, became one of the most prominent schools for women in the United States. Harvard became a founding member of the American University Association in 1900.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the student body was dominated by "Protestant believers, especially Protestants, especially Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians" - a group later called "WASPs" (Protestant Anglo-Saxon White). In 1923, a proposal by president A. Lawrence Lowell that Jews were limited to 15% of scholars denied, but Lowell forbade blacks to stay at Harvard Yard; Lowell believes that "forcing" blacks and whites to live together "will increase the prejudice that ... is unfortunate and may grow." But in the 1970s, Harvard was much more diversified.
James Bryant Conant (president, 1933-1953) revived the creative scholarship to ensure his superiority among research institutions. He sees higher education as a means of opportunity for the gifted and not the right of the rich, so Conant designed the program to identify, recruit, and support talented youth. In 1943, he asked faculty to make definitive statements about what general education should be, at the secondary level as well as in college. The results of the Report , published in 1945, were one of the most influential manifestos in the history of American education in the 20th century.
In 1945-1960 the acceptance policy was opened to bring students from a pool of more diverse applicants. No longer mostly drawing from the rich alumni of New England prep school electives, undergraduate colleges are now open to struggling middle-class students from public schools; more Jews and Catholics are accepted, but few black, Hispanic or Asians.
The Harvard graduate school began accepting women in small numbers late in the 19th century, and during World War II, students at Radcliffe College (who by 1879 had paid Harvard professors to repeat their lectures for female students) began attending Harvard classes with men , a first class woman was accepted at Harvard Medical School in 1945. Since 1970 Harvard has been responsible for basically all aspects of acceptance, instruction, and life of scholars for women, and Radcliffe officially merged into Harvard in 1999.
21st century
Drew Gilpin Faust, formerly dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, became president of Harvard on 1 July 2007. In February 2018, Lawrence Seldon Bacow was appointed to its 29th president on 1 July 2018.
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Campus
Cambridge
The 85-hectare Harvard main campus is located at Harvard Yard in Cambridge, about 3 miles (5 km) west-northwest of downtown Boston, and extends to the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. Harvard Yard itself contains the central administrative offices and main library of the university, academic buildings including Sever Hall and University Hall, Memorial Church, and the majority of new student dormitories. Secondary, junior and senior students live in twelve houses, nine of which are south of Harvard Yard along or near the Charles River. The other three are located in a residential neighborhood half a mile northwest of the Yard in Quadrangle (commonly referred to as the Quad), which previously housed Radcliffe College students until Radcliffe merged his housing system with Harvard. Each dwelling house contains rooms for students, master houses, and resident tutors, as well as dining and library rooms. The facility was made possible by a gift from Yale University alumnus, Edward Harkness.
Radcliffe Yard, formerly of the Radcliffe College campus center and now home of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, is adjacent to the Graduate School of Education and Cambridge Common.
Between 2014 and 2016, Harvard University reported crime statistics for its major Cambridge campus covering 141 forced sexual violations, 33 robberies, 46 aggravated attacks, 151 thefts and 32 cases of motor vehicle theft.
Harvard also owns commercial real estate in Cambridge and Allston, where he pays property taxes. These include the Allston Doubletree Hotel, The Inn at Harvard, and the Harvard Square Hotel.
Allston
Harvard Business School and many university athletic facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located on the 358 acre (145Ã, ha) campus in Allston, a Boston neighborhood across the Charles River from the Cambridge campus. John W. Weeks Bridge, a pedestrian bridge over the Charles River, connects two campuses. Intending great expansion, Harvard now has more land in Allston than in Cambridge. The ten-year plan requires 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters) of new construction and 500,000 square feet (50,000 square meters) of renovation, including new and renovated buildings at Harvard Business School; a hotel and conference center; multipurpose institutional buildings; renovations for residential graduate students and to Harvard Stadium; new athletic facilities; laboratories and new classrooms for the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science; expansion of the Harvard Education Portal; and district energy facilities.
Longwood
Further south, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health are located on a 21 acre (8.5 acre) campus at the Longwood Medical and Academic Area about 3.3 miles (5.3 km ) south. Cambridge campus, and the same distance to the southwest of downtown Boston. The Arnold Arboretum, in the Jamaica Plain Boston neighborhood, is also owned and operated by Harvard.
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Harvard also owns and operates the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, in Washington, D.C.; Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts; Concord Field Station at Estabrook Woods in Concord, Massachusetts and research center Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Harvard also operates the Harvard Shanghai Center in China.
Organization and administration
Government
Harvard is governed by a combination of Supervisory Board and President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as Harvard Corporation), which in turn appoints President Harvard University. There are 16,000 staff and faculty, including 2,400 professors, lecturers, and instructors teaching 7,200 students and 14,000 graduate students.
The Faculty of Arts and Science has the primary responsibility for teaching at Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, which includes Harvard Summer School and the Harvard Extension School. There are ten graduate school faculties and other professionals, in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Courses in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology include the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, the Broad Institute, the Economic Complexity Observatory, and edX.
Endowment
Harvard has the world's largest university grant. In terms of donations per student, it ranks third in the US, after Princeton and Yale. In September 2011, it almost returned the losses suffered during the 2008 recession. It was worth $ 32 billion in 2011, up from $ 28 billion in September 2010 and $ 26 billion in 2009. It suffered about 30% loss in 2008-2009. In December 2008, Harvard announced that its donation had lost 22% (about $ 8 billion) from July to October 2008, which required budget cuts. Later reports showed that the actual loss was more than double that figure, a reduction of nearly 50% of its contribution in the first four months alone. Forbes in March 2009 estimated the loss was in the range of $ 12 billion. One of the most obvious outcomes of Harvard's efforts to rebalance its budget was the halt to Allston's $ 1.2 billion Allston Science Complex construction that was scheduled for completion in 2011, resulting in protests from local residents. In 2012, Harvard University has a total of $ 159 million in financial aid reserves for students, and Pell Grant's reserves of $ 4.093 million are available for redemption.
Divestment
Since the 1970s, several campaigns have sought to relinquish the Harvard heritage of campaign holdings opposed, including investments in apartheid South Africa, the tobacco industry, Sudan during the genocide of Darfur, and the fossil fuel industry.
During the divestment of the South African movement in the late 1980s, student activists established symbolic "slum cities" at Harvard Yard and blocked a speech given by South African Vice-Consul Duke Kent-Brown. The Harvard Management Company repeatedly refused to divest, stating that "operating costs should not be subject to unrealistic pressure realistically or administered by unsophisticated groups or by special interest groups." However, the university eventually reduced South African ownership of $ 230 million (from $ 400 million) in response to the pressure.
Academics
Reception
The admission of scholars to Harvard is characterized by the Carnegie Foundation as "more selective, lower transfer-in". Harvard College received 5.2% of applicants for the 2021 class, the lowest record and the second lowest acceptance rate among all national universities. Harvard College ended its initial admissions program in 2007 because the program is believed to be detrimental to low-income, under-represented minority applicants who apply to selective universities, but for the 2016 class, early action programs are reintroduced.
Harvard's undergraduate admission policy on preference for alumni children has been the subject of surveillance and debate as it has been claimed that it primarily helps Caucasians and the rich and seems to contradict the concept of meritocratic acceptance. Classes of students entering in autumn 2017 will be the first to become dominant (50.8%) not whites.
Teaching and learning
Harvard is a huge research university. The University has been accredited by the Association of Schools and Colleges of New England since 1929. The University offers 46 undergraduate concentrations (majors), 134 undergraduate degrees, and 32 professional degrees. For the academic year 2008-2009, Harvard gave 1,664 baccalaureate degrees, 400 master's degrees, 512 doctorates, and 4,460 professional degrees.
The four-year full-time undergraduate program consists of minority enrollments at the university and emphasizes instruction with "art and science focus". Between 1978 and 2008, incoming students were required to complete the core curriculum of seven classes beyond their concentration. Since 2008, students have been asked to complete courses in eight categories of Public Education: Aesthetic Understanding and Understanding and Interpretation, Culture and Confidence, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Life Systems Science, Physical Universe Science, World Society, and USA in this world. Harvard offers a comprehensive postgraduate doctoral program, and there is a high level of coexistence between graduates and scholars. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, The New York Times , and some students have criticized Harvard for his reliance on teaching colleagues for some aspects of undergraduate education; they consider this to have an adverse impact on the quality of education.
Harvard's academic programs operate on a semester calendar beginning in early September and ending in mid-May. Undergraduate students typically take four and a half courses per semester and must maintain an average four-course rate to be considered full-time. In many concentrations, students may choose to pursue a basic program or eligible program of honor requiring senior theses and/or advanced courses. Students who graduate above 4-5% of the class are awarded the title summa cum laude, students in the next 15% of the class are awarded magna cum laude, and the next 30% of the classes are awarded cum laude . Harvard has branches of academic honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa and various committees and departments also provide several hundred prizes named every year. Harvard, along with other universities, has been accused of class inflation, despite evidence that students' body qualities and motivations have also increased. Harvard College reduced the number of students who received the Latin award from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. In addition, the honor of "John Harvard Scholar" and "Harvard College Scholar" will now be awarded only to the top 5 percent and the next 5 percent of every class.
University policy is to expel students engaged in academic dishonesty to prevent "culture of cheating." In 2012, dozens of students were excluded for cheating after investigations of more than 120 students. In 2013, there were reports that as many as 42% of new students entering had deceived homework before entering university, and this incident has prompted universities to consider adopting a code of honor.
For the 2012-2013 school year, the annual fee is $ 38,000, with a total attendance fee of $ 57,000. Starting in 2007, families with incomes under $ 60,000 paid nothing for their children to attend, including rooms and meals. Families with incomes ranging from $ 60,000 to $ 80,000 pay only a few thousand dollars per year, and families earning between $ 120,000 and $ 180,000 do not pay more than 10% of their annual income. In 2009, Harvard offered a grant of $ 414 million across eleven divisions; $ 340 million comes from institutional funds, $ 35 million from federal support, and $ 39 million from outside support. Gives a total of 88% of Harvard's assistance to undergraduate students, with assistance also granted loans (8%) and work studies (4%). Tuition only covers 6.4% of Harvard's operating costs.
Research
Harvard is a founding member of the American University Association and remains a research university with "very high" research activities and a "comprehensive" doctoral program across arts, science, engineering, and medicine. Research and development spending in 2011 amounted to $ 650 million, 27 among American universities.
Libraries and museums
The Harvard University Library System is based in the Widener Library at Harvard Yard and consists of nearly 80 individual libraries that hold 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. The Houghton Library, the Arthur Library and Elizabeth Schlesinger on the History of Women in America, and the Harvard University Archive consist primarily of rare and unique materials. The oldest and newest map collections in America, gazetteers, and atlas are kept in the Pusey Library and are open to the public. The largest collection of East Asian language materials outside East Asia was held at Harvard-Yenching Library.
The Harvard Art Museum consists of three museums. Arthur M. Sackler Museum includes a collection of ancient, Asian, Islamic and then Indian art, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, formerly the German Museum, covering central and northern European art, and the Fogg Art Museum, including Western art from the Middle Ages to the present emphasizing the early Renaissance Italian, pre-Raphael English, and French art of the 19th century. The Harvard Museum of Natural History includes the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University Herbaria featuring exhibits of Blaschka Glass Flowers, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Other museums include the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, designed by Le Corbusier, the archive of the film, the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, specializing in the cultural history and civilization of the Western Hemisphere, and Semitic Museum featuring artifacts from excavations in the Middle East.
University rating
Among the overall rankings, The World University Academic Ranking ARWU ) has put Harvard as the world's best university every year since it was first released. When QS and Times Higher Education was published in partnership as THE QS World University Rankings during 2004-2009, Harvard also topped every year. In addition, THE World Reputation Rank has successively ranked Harvard as the top institution among the university's "six brands", others are Berkeley, Cambridge, MIT, Oxford and Stanford.
Regarding the rank of special indicators, Harvard ranked second in the University Rankings by Academy Performance 2015-2016 and Mining ParisTech: The World University's Professional Ranking (2011), which measures the number of university alumni holding the CEO position at Fortune Global 500 companies. According to a 2016 poll conducted by The Princeton Review, Harvard is the second most common "dream college" in the United States, both for students and parents. Higher Education ROI Report: Best Value College by PayScale puts the 22nd National Harvard in the latest edition of 2016.
Student life
Student body
In the last six years, Harvard students population ranged from 19,000 to 21,000, in all programs. Harvard enrolled 6,655 students in undergraduate programs, and over 14,000 students in undergraduate and professional programs. The undergraduate population is 51% female, while the graduate population is 48% female.
The Harvard Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Graduate Council are the main organs of the student administration.
Athletics
The Harvard Crimson competes in 42 inter-college sports in the NCAA I Ivy League Division. Harvard has a strong athletic competition with Yale University culminating in The Game, though the Harvard-Yale Regatta precedes football matches. This competition is set aside every two years when the Harvard and Yale Track and Field teams unite to compete with a joint team of Oxford University and Cambridge University, the competition that is the oldest international amateur competition in the world.
Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is very intense in every sport where they meet, coming to a climax every fall in an annual soccer meeting, which begins in 1875 and is usually called "The Game". While the Harvard football team is no longer one of the best in the country as it often happened a century ago during the early days of football (he won the Rose Bowl in 1920), both and Yale have influenced the way the game is played. In 1903, Harvard Stadium introduced a new era into football with the first permanent permanent permanent concrete stadium in the country. The stadium structure really plays a role in the evolution of college matches. Looking to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries to the sport, Walter Camp (former Yale soccer team captain), suggested widening the pitch to open the game. But the stadium is too narrow to accommodate a wider playing surface. So another step has to be taken. Camp instead supported the revolutionary new rules for the 1906 season. These include forward pass authorization, perhaps the most significant change in sports history.
Harvard has several athletic facilities, such as the Lavietes Pavilion, multi-purpose arena and home to the Harvard basketball team. The Malkin Athletic Center, known as the "MAC", serves both as a major recreational facility of the university and as a satellite location for several university sports. This five-storey building includes two cardio rooms, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a smaller swimming pool for aquaerobics and other activities, a mezzanine, where all kinds of classes are held, an indoor cycling studio, three weight rooms, and a three-story gym court for playing basketball. MAC offers personal trainers and special classes. It is home to Harvard volleyball, fencing and wrestling.
Boeld Boathouse and Newell Boathouse housed a women's and men's rowing team, respectively. The male crew also uses the Red Top complex in Ledyard, Connecticut, as a training camp for the annual Harvard-Yale Regatta race. The Hockey Center of Light that hosts Harvard hockey teams, and the Murr Center serves as home to Harvard's pumpkin and tennis teams as well as a center of strength and conditioning for all athletic sports.
In 2013, there are 42 divisions of inter-university sports teams for women and men at Harvard, more than any other NCAA Division I college in the country. Like other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer an athletic scholarship.
Older than The Game for 23 years, Harvard-Yale Regatta is the original source of athletic competition between two schools. It is held annually in June on the River Thames in eastern Connecticut. The Harvard crew is usually regarded as one of the top teams in the country who are rowing. Today, Harvard guides top teams in several other sports, such as Harvard Crimson ice hockey team (with strong competition against Cornell), squash, and even recently won the NCAA title in Fence Men and Women. Harvard also won the National Inter-Sailing Association Championships in 2003.
Harvard's ice hockey team won the first NCAA Championship in school in any team sport in 1989. Harvard was also the first Ivy League institution to win the NCAA championship title in women's sports when the women's lacrosse team won the NCAA Championship in 1990.
Harvard Undergraduate Television has recordings of historic games and athletic events including the 2005 parade before the Harvard-Yale Match.
The school colors are red, which is also the name of the Harvard sports team and the daily newspaper, Harvard Crimson. The color was unofficially adopted (in preference to magenta) by 1875 votes from the student body, although associations with some red forms can be traced back to 1858, when Charles William Eliot, a young graduate student who later became Harvard 21 and the longest serving president 1869-1909), bought a red bandana for his crew so that they could be more easily distinguished by spectators in the screen race.
Song
Harvard has several bout songs, the most widely played, especially in football, are "Ten Thousand Men Harvard" and "Harvardiana." While "Fair Harvard" is actually an alma mater, "Ten Thousand Men" is better known outside the university. Harvard University Band features songs of this struggle, and other cheers in soccer and hockey games. It is parodied by Harvard alumnus Tom Lehrer in his song "Fight Fiercely, Harvard," which he authored during his bachelor's degree.
Famous people
Alumni
Faculty
The Harvard Faculty includes scholars such as biologist EO Wilson, psychologist Steven Pinker, physicists Lisa Randall and Roy Glauber, chemist Elias Corey, Dudley R. Herschbach and George M. Whitesides, computer scientist Michael O. Rabin and Leslie Valiant, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt , author Louis Menand, critic Helen Vendler, historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Niall Ferguson, economist of Amartya Sen, N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert Barro, Stephen A. Marglin, Don M. Wilson III and Martin Feldstein, political philosophers Harvey Mansfield, Baroness Shirley Williams and Michael Sandel, mathematicians Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau , political scientist Robert Putnam, Joseph Nye, and Stanley Hoffmann, scholar/composer Robert Levin and Bernard Rands, astrophysicist Alyssa A. Goodman, and law scholar Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Lessig.
Previous faculty members include Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Nozick, Stephan Thernstrom, Sanford J. Ungar, Michael Walzer, and Cornel West.
Literature and popular culture
Harvard's heritage as a leading research and education institution has had a significant impact both in academy and popular culture. In addition, Harvard's perception of being the center of elite achievement, or elite privilege, has made it a frequent literary and cinematic background. "In film grammar, Harvard has interpreted both tradition, and some emptiness," film critic Paul Sherman said.
Literature
- William Faulkner
(1929) and Absalom! Absalom! (1936) both describe the life of Harvard students. - Of Time and the River (1935), Thomas Wolfe's fictional autobiography, including the days of his alter ego pupils at Harvard.
- The Late George Apley (1937, Pulitzer Prize winner), by John P. Marquand, parodies the Harvard men at the opening of the 20th century.
- Second Happiest Day (1953), by John P. Marquand, Jr., describes the Harvard generation of World War II.
Movies
Harvard's policies since 1970 have allowed filming on his property rarely, so most of the scenes at Harvard (especially indoor shooting, but except airborne recordings and public area pictures like Harvard Square) are actually shot elsewhere. Erich Segal Love Story (1970), which deals with the romance between rich hockey player (Ryan O'Neal) and brilliant Radcliffe students in a simple way (Ali MacGraw), is screened every year for freshmen entering.
See also
References
Bibliography
External links
- Official website
- The Harvard Athletics website
- Harvard University at National Center for Education Statistics: College Navigator
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