1. “Harvard first, then the United States”: Harvard University in the United States
2. An institution that “cultivates people who lead the world”: Yale University in the United States
3. The birthplace of the tutoring system: Oxford University, UK
4. The founder of the Nobel Prize: Cambridge University, UK
5. The epitome of the development history of European universities: University of Paris, France
6. The cradle of cultivating national elites: Moscow State University, Russia
7. “The birthplace of prime minister talents”: Tokyo University, Japan
8. Brilliance in “ "A country of poets and thinkers": Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
9. "Without Peking University, China's modern history would have been rewritten": Peking University, China
10. China One of the "Gemini Constellations" of higher education: Tsinghua University in China
Harvard University is one of the most famous and oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. This private institution is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded on September 8, 1636. Originally named Cambridge College, it was renamed Harvard College on March 13, 1639, in honor of the generous donation from Puritan pastor John Harvard. Since then, many people who have had a major impact on the world have come from Harvard University. Harvard University has ten graduate schools, among which the business school and the law school are the most famous. Today Harvard University has an important influence both in the United States and around the world, and is also one of the most competitive universities.
The original name of Harvard University was "Cambridge College". It was renamed Harvard College in 1639 to commemorate the main donor of school funds, John. Harvard. He died of lung disease. Before his death, he donated all his books (about 400 books) and half of his property (about 780 pounds) to the college. At that time, this was the largest donation the college had received since its establishment. In 1780, Harvard College was upgraded to Harvard University, a name still used today.
After more than three hundred years of development, Harvard University is now huge. There are more than 19,000 students and about 2,000 professors. Assets are strong, reaching 20 billion US dollars. Annual funding is US$2.3 billion. Harvard has the following schools: School of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Design, School of Divinity, School of Government, School of Education, Law School, School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Public Health, Radcliffe College (a women's college) and the University Extension Department. Harvard Business School, Law School, Government School, Medical School and many other schools have extremely high reputations. Among them, politics, economics, sociology, medicine, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics and many other disciplines are world-class.
The Harvard Library is the oldest library in the United States. It was built in 1638 and is also one of the largest libraries in the world. It contains 19 million books, including microfilm. , maps, pictures, data and other materials. The main part of the library is the Harvard College Library, which includes eleven major branches.
Among Harvard's libraries, the well-known Harvard-Yenching Library is the center of East Asian studies in American academia and the largest university library among all East Asian research centers in the West. It was established in 1928, but since Harvard University began offering Chinese courses in 1879, it began to collect books related to China. Books related to Japan were added to the collection in 1914.
Harvard’s motto is “Amicus Plato, Amicus Aristotle, Sed Magis Amicus VERITAS”. It is Latin, and the Chinese is "Be friends with Plato, be friends with Aristotle, and more importantly, be friends with the truth." It is the code by which Harvard students learn and conduct themselves. Harvard's school emblem is "Veritas" in Latin and "Truth" in Chinese. It doesn't come easily. The design sketch was proposed as early as 1643, but was inadvertently shelved in the documents and lay dormant for nearly two hundred years. It was not until the bicentennial anniversary that President Quincy accidentally discovered this pattern while searching for school history materials, and then reintroduced it to Harvard teachers and students.
Harvard has many influential scientific achievements, such as surgical anesthesia more than a hundred years ago; the nuclear magnetic resonance (MRI) discovered in the 1940s, which is now widely used in chemical and medical research; He pioneered a new method of organ transplantation and successfully performed the first human kidney transplant; in the 1960s, he proposed the theory and techniques of organic synthetic chemistry and synthesized vitamin B12 for the first time; in the 1990s, he invented new solar energy conversion materials and the synthesis of a very effective anti-cancer drug in 2000, etc.
Harvard has forty Nobel Prize winners and thirty-four Pulitzer Prize winners, playing an important role in American politics, economy, science, and culture. At the same time, it also has a certain impact on other countries in the world. There are a number of famous scholars and scientists in modern China who studied at Harvard, such as Chen Yinke, Zhu Kezhen, Yang Xingfo, Liang Shiqiu, Liang Sicheng, Zhao Yuanren, etc.
The Harvard Museum is also an important part of Harvard. It includes art museums, natural history museums, archeology and human culture museums, etc.
The Harvard Art Museums is one of the largest university art museums in the world. It has a collection of 150,000 art treasures, ranging from ancient times to the present, from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, with a wide range. The art museum is divided into three buildings. The Fogg Museum's main collection is Western paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints. There are both Italian Renaissance art treasures and French Impressionist works. The Lessinger Museum displays Central and Northern European art to people, and its collections mainly come from German-speaking countries. The Sackler Museum collects ancient Asian and religious art. Among them are Chinese jades, bronzes, pottery, ancient paintings, Buddhist sculptures, Korean ceramics, Japanese ukiyo-e, Indian paintings, Arabic calligraphy, Persian carpets, Greek and Roman sculptures, and more.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History includes the Museum of Botany, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Museum of Minerals and Geology. The Botanical Museum has a large collection of valuable economic and medicinal plant specimens, photographs, artifacts and archaeological materials. Among them, glass models of plants are among the rarest collectibles. The museum has more than 3,000 such models, covering more than 840 kinds of plants. The model is exquisite and perfect and unique in the world. The Harvard Museum of Archeology and Human Culture is the world's oldest anthropology museum and has the most extensive collection of records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere. These museums complement Harvard's scientific research in a brilliant way.
Harvard students come from all over the United States and more than 100 countries around the world, with different nationalities, religious beliefs and cultural traditions. There are college students, graduate students, continuing education and summer school students; among them, there are teenagers as young as teenagers and people as old as eighty years old. Although Harvard students have various styles, generally speaking, their academic performance is excellent and they have many talents, such as music, dance, drama, sports, news reporting, and public service. etc. They are good at applying the knowledge they have learned to solve practical problems.
Harvard’s admission rate is the lowest in the United States, always around 10 to 12 percent, but the number of applicants every year reaches more than 20,000. Many applicants with outstanding high school grades may not have been lucky enough to be admitted to Harvard. About 75% of admitted students chose Harvard.
Although it is not easy to get into Harvard, it still provides opportunities for any outstanding and talented students to enter. Applicants' financial status will not be considered during admission, and assistance will be provided to students in need of financial aid. Harvard is a place that many people yearn for to study and further their studies.
It has a very famous school motto, "Be friends with Plato, be friends with Aristotle, and more importantly, be friends with the truth." The original text is 'Amicus Plato, Amicus Aristotle, sed Magis Amicus VERITAS.', written in Latin.
Famous Harvard University graduates/students:
Harvard has produced countless outstanding graduates. Seven U.S. presidents graduated from Harvard, such as Franklin. Roosevelt, John. Kennedy and current President George. Bush.
Washington, the first president, received an honorary degree from Harvard. In July 1775, General Washington led his troops to defeat the British army at Harvard's Wadsworth Building, where the temporary headquarters was located.
There are also many outstanding talents among Harvard dropouts. Such as oil king Howard. Hughes, inventor Bonney with more than 500 patents. Wright, the famous singer who founded the country band "International Submarine Band", Gram. Parsons, as well as computer tycoon Bill. Gates.
George Downing - the second Harvard graduate and British diplomat. Downing Street, where the British Prime Minister's official residence is located, is named after him.
John F. Kennedy-President of the United States
Henry Kissinger-Secretary of State
Emerson-Famous American thinker
Yo-Yo Ma - Overseas Chinese-American cellist
Yale University was founded in 1701 as a private university. It is as famous as Harvard and Princeton University, and has competed for the top three positions among American universities and graduate schools over the years. The school’s professor lineup, course arrangements, and teaching facilities are first-rate. Beautiful Gothic-style buildings, Georgian-style buildings and modern buildings complement each other, making the entire campus very classical and beautiful. In autumn, golden and dark red fallen leaves are everywhere on the campus, and the sunlight slants down on the antique towering buildings built of yellow-brown boulders. Yale's fame, its beauty and solemnity, and the dignified sense of history when standing in the center of the campus and looking around at sunset attract outstanding students from all over the world...
The school is the strongest The subjects are social sciences, humanities and life sciences. The Yale Graduate School of Management created a unique course in 1978 - Public & Private Management (Public & Private Management) course, which focuses on professional management training in public and non-profit organizations. Sixty percent of the course schedule is lectures, 40% are case studies, and half of the latter are cases from public or non-profit organizations. Yale University's Master of Business Administration is not called MBA but MPPM, and this is where it comes from.
Yale has many outstanding alumni: the last two presidents of the United States are Yale alumni, and George Bush is a member of Yale’s famous secret group [Skull and Bones]. It was in Yale's library that current President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, met. The famous movie star Jodie Foster and the famous columnist Kevin Cuillin of "Time" magazine are all Yale students...