哈佛大学(Harvard University)

美国历史最悠久的高等学府（1636年建立），大概是美国最具声望的学校。校名是纪念一位清教牧师约翰.哈佛（1607～1638）而命名的，他将全部藏书和一半资产捐赠给位於麻萨诸塞州剑桥的这所学院。19世纪初相继开设了神学院、法学院和医学院。艾略特在长期担任校长期间（1869～1909），把哈佛办成了一所具有全国性影响的学府。哈佛已为美国培养出六位总统、一批最高法院大法官、内阁官员和国会领袖，以及许多的文学、知识界人物。哈佛的本科生学院哈佛学院的学生人数约占全体在校学员的1/3。赖德克利芙学院（成立於1879年）原是和哈佛同等的一所女子学院，1960年开始有女子毕业於哈佛学院和赖德克利芙学院，1999年并入哈佛大学，名称仅存於赖德克利芙研究所。哈佛大学现拥有医学、法律、商业、神学、教育、行政管理、牙医、设计和公共卫生等门类的研究院或专业学院，隶属於哈佛大学的高级研究机构有比较动物学博物馆、皮巴蒂考古学与人种学博物馆和福格艺术博物馆。哈佛（威德纳）图书馆是全世界规模最大和最重要的图书馆之一。学生总注册人数约18,000。

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Harvard University

Oldest institution of higher learning in the U.S. (founded 1636) and perhaps the most prestigious. Harvard College was named for a Puritan minister, John Harvard (1607-1638), who left the school, in Cambridge, Mass., his books and half of his estate. Its schools of divinity, law, and medicine were established in the early 19th century. Charles Eliot, during his long tenure as president (1869-1909), made Harvard an institution with national influence. Harvard has educated six U.S. presidents, many Supreme Court justices, cabinet officers, and congressional leaders, and dozens of major literary and intellectual figures. Its undergraduate school, Harvard College, contain about one-third of the total student body. Radcliffe College (1879) was a coordinate undergraduate women's college. From 1960 women graduated from both Harvard and Radcliffe, and in 1999 Radcliffe was absorbed by Harvard, the name surviving in the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Harvard University also has graduate or professional schools of medicine, law, business, divinity, education, government, dentistry, architecture and landscape design, and public health. Among its affiliated research institutes are the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Fogg Art Museum. Its Widener Library is one of the largest and most important libraries in the world. Total enrollment is about 18,000.