Harvard University Explained

Harvard University
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Latin Name:Universitas Harvardiana
Motto:Latin: [[Veritas#Mottos|Veritas]] (Latin)[1]
Mottoeng:"Truth"
Free Label:Newspaper
Free:The Harvard Crimson
Established:[2]
Endowment:$50.7 billion (2023)[3] [4]
Provost:John F. Manning[5]
Students:21,613 (Fall 2022)[6]
Undergrad:7,240 (Fall 2022)
Postgrad:14,373 (Fall 2022)
Academic Staff:~2,400 faculty members (and >10,400 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals)[7]
Country:United States
Campus:Midsize city[8]
Campus Size:209acres
Logo Alt:Logotype of Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.[9]

Harvard's founding was authorized by the Massachusetts colonial legislature, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches". Though never formally affiliated with any denomination, in its early years Harvard College primarily trained Congregational clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century.

By the 19th century, Harvard emerged as the most prominent academic and cultural institution among the Boston elite.[10] [11] Following the American Civil War, under President Charles William Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909), the college developed multiple affiliated professional schools that transformed the college into a modern research university. In 1900, Harvard co-founded the Association of American Universities.[12] James B. Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II, and liberalized admissions after the war.

The university is composed of ten academic faculties and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses:[13] the 209acres Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area.[14] Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.7 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world.[4] Endowment income enables the undergraduate college to admit students regardless of financial need and provide financial aid with no loans. According to the American Library Association, Harvard University has the fourth-largest library by volumes held in the United States.

Harvard alumni, faculty, and researchers have included 188 living billionaires, 8 U.S. presidents, numerous heads of state, founders of notable companies, Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, members of Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Turing Award Recipients, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Fulbright Scholars; by most metrics, Harvard ranks among the top globally in each of these categories.[15] Additionally, students and alumni have won 10 Academy Awards and 110 Olympic medals (46 gold).

History

See main article: History of Harvard University.

Colonial era

See also: John Harvard (clergyman). Harvard was founded in 1636 during the colonial, pre-Revolutionary era by vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Its first headmaster, Nathaniel Eaton, took office the following year. In 1638, the university acquired British North America's first known printing press.[16] [17]

In 1639, it was named Harvard College after John Harvard, an English clergyman who had died soon after immigrating to Massachusetts, bequeathing it £780 and his library of some 320 volumes.[18] The charter creating Harvard Corporation was granted in 1650.

A 1643 publication defined the college's purpose: "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust."[19] The college trained many Puritan ministers in its early years[20] and offered a classic curriculum based on the English university model—many leaders in the colony had attended the University of Cambridgeconformed to the tenets of Puritanism. Harvard never affiliated with any particular denomination.[21]

Increase Mather served as Harvard College's president from 1681 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman.[22]

19th century

In the 19th century, Enlightenment ideas of reason and free will were widespread among Congregational ministers, placing those ministers and their congregations at odds with more traditionalist, Calvinist parties.[23] When Hollis Professor of Divinity David Tappan died in 1803 and President Joseph Willard died a year later, a struggle broke out over their replacements. Henry Ware was elected Hollis chair in 1805, and liberal Samuel Webber was appointed president two years later, signaling a shift from traditional ideas at Harvard to liberal, Arminian ideas.[24]

From 1869 to 1909, Charles William Eliot was Harvard University's president. He decreased the favored position of Christianity from the curriculum, and opened it to student self-direction. Though Eliot was an influential figure in the secularization of American higher education, he was motivated primarily by Transcendentalist and Unitarian convictions influenced by William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others of the time, rather than secularism.[25]

In 1816, Harvard University launched new programs in the study of French and Spanish, and appointed George Ticknor the university's first professor for these language programs.

20th century

Harvard's graduate schools began admitting women in small numbers in the late 19th century. During World War II, students at Radcliffe College (which, since its 1879 founding, had been paying Harvard professors to repeat their lectures for women) began attending Harvard classes alongside men.[26] In 1945, women were first admitted to the medical school.[27] Since 1971, Harvard had controlled essentially all aspects of undergraduate admission, instruction, and housing for Radcliffe women; in 1999, Radcliffe was formally merged into Harvard.[28]

In the 20th century, Harvard's reputation grew as its endowment burgeoned and prominent intellectuals and professors affiliated with the university. The university's rapid enrollment growth also was a product of both the founding of new graduate academic programs and an expansion of the undergraduate college. Radcliffe College emerged as the female counterpart of Harvard College, becoming one of the most prominent schools for women in the United States. In 1900, Harvard became a founding member of the Association of American Universities.

The student body in its first decades of the 20th century was predominantly "old-stock, high-status Protestants, especially Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians", according to sociologist and author Jerome Karabel.[29] In 1923, a year after the percentage of Jewish students at Harvard reached 20%, President A. Lawrence Lowell supported a policy change that would have capped the admission of Jewish students to 15% of the undergraduate population. But Lowell's idea was rejected. Lowell also refused to mandate forced desegregation in the university's freshman dormitories, writing that, "We owe to the colored man the same opportunities for education that we do to the white man, but we do not owe to him to force him and the white into social relations that are not, or may not be, mutually congenial."[30] [31] [32] [33]

President James B. Conant led the university from 1933 to 1953; Conant reinvigorated creative scholarship in an effort to guarantee Harvard's preeminence among the nation and world's emerging research institutions. Conant viewed higher education as a vehicle of opportunity for the talented rather than an entitlement for the wealthy. As such, he devised programs to identify, recruit, and support talented youth. An influential 268-page report issued by Harvard faculty in 1945 under Conant's leadership, General Education in a Free Society, remains one of the most important works in curriculum studies.[34]

Between 1945 and 1960, admissions standardized to open the university to a more diverse group of students; for example, after World War II, special exams were developed so veterans could be considered for admission.[35] No longer drawing mostly from select New England prep schools, the undergraduate college became accessible to striving middle class students from public schools; many more Jews and Catholics were admitted, but still few Blacks, Hispanics, or Asians versus the representation of these groups in the general population.[36] Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, Harvard incrementally became vastly more diverse.[37]

21st century

Drew Gilpin Faust, who was dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, became Harvard's first female president on July 1, 2007.[38] In 2018, Faust retired and joined the board of Goldman Sachs. On July 1, 2018, Lawrence Bacow was appointed Harvard's 29th president.[39] Bacow retired in 2023.

In February 2023, approximately 6,000 Harvard workers attempted to organize a union.[40]

On July 1, 2023, Claudine Gay, a Harvard professor in the Government and African American Studies departments and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, succeeded Bacow as the university's 30th president. In January 2024, Provost Alan Garber succeeded Gay as interim president after Gay resigned following allegations of antisemitism and plagiarism.[41] On April 24, 2024, the student-led group Harvard out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) established a pro-Palestinian encampment on Harvard Yard. As a result, the university blocked access to the yard. On May 14, 2024, HOOP ended the encampment, and President Garber issued a statement committing to "facilitate a meeting with the chair of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and other University officials to address questions about the endowment," and, along with dean of faculty of arts and sciences (FAS) Hopi Hoekstra, to "meet with students to hear their perspectives on academic matters related to longstanding conflicts in the Middle East."[42] Five students were suspended, over 20 were placed on probation,[43] and 13 were prohibited from walking at commencement, despite a faculty vote to allow them to do so.[44]

Harvard was named in three separate lawsuits in 2024, alleging that it has failed to adequately address antisemitism on campus. On January 10, 2024, law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres filed suit against Harvard on behalf of several Jewish students. The lawsuit alleges a violation of the student's civil rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[45] [46] [47] On February 21, 2024, Shurat Hadin, an Israeli NGO based in Tel Aviv filed suit against Harvard on behalf of 10 Harvard alumni, who accuse the school of "'devaluing' their diplomas due to the antisemitism."[48] On May 22, 2024, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law filed a lawsuit alleging "'cruel anti-Semitic bullying, harassment, and discrimination' unaddressed for years".[49] [50] In August 2024, a Federal Judge "found plausible accusations that Harvard was deliberately indifferent toward Jewish and Israeli students who said they feared for their safety after facing severe and pervasive harassment," and he ruled that the university must face the lawsuit brought against them.[51] [52]

Campuses

Cambridge

See also: Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Harvard's 209acres main campus is centered on Harvard Yard ("the Yard") in Cambridge, about 3miles west-northwest of downtown Boston, and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. The Yard contains administrative offices such as University Hall and Massachusetts Hall; libraries such as Widener, Pusey, Houghton, and Lamont; and Memorial Church.

The Yard and adjacent areas include the main academic buildings of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including the college, such as Sever Hall and Harvard Hall. Freshman dormitories are in, or adjacent to, the Yard. Upperclassmen live in the twelve residential housesnine south of the Yard near the Charles River, the others half a mile northwest of the Yard at the Radcliffe Quadrangle (which formerly housed Radcliffe College students). Each house is a community of undergraduates, faculty deans, and resident tutors, with its own dining hall, library, and recreational facilities.[53]

Also in Cambridge are the Law, Divinity (theology), Engineering and Applied Science, Design (architecture), Education, Kennedy (public policy), and Extension schools, as well as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Radcliffe Yard.[54] Harvard also has commercial real estate holdings in Cambridge.[55] [56]

Allston

See also: Harvard University's expansion in Allston, Massachusetts. Harvard Business School, Harvard Innovation Labs, and many athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located on a 358acres campus in Allston,[57] a Boston neighborhood just across the Charles River from the Cambridge campus. The John W. Weeks Bridge, a pedestrian bridge over the Charles River, connects the two campuses.

The university is actively expanding into Allston, where it now owns more land than in Cambridge.[58] Plans include new construction and renovation for the Business School, a hotel and conference center, graduate student housing, Harvard Stadium, and other athletics facilities.[59]

In 2021, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences expanded into a new, 500,000+ square foot Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in Allston.[60] The SEC is adjacent to the Enterprise Research Campus, the Business School, and the Harvard Innovation Labs to encourage technology- and life science-focused startups as well as collaborations with mature companies.[61]

Longwood

See also: Longwood Medical and Academic Area. The schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health are located on a 21acres campus in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, about 3.3miles south of the Cambridge campus.Several Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research institutes are also in Longwood, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Additional affiliates, most notably Massachusetts General Hospital, are located throughout the Greater Boston area.

Other

Harvard owns the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, the Concord Field Station in Estabrook Woods in Concord, Massachusetts,[62] the Villa I Tatti research center in Florence, Italy,[63] the Harvard Shanghai Center in Shanghai, China,[64] and the Arnold Arboretum in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

Organization and administration

Governance

School Founded
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Harvard is governed by a combination of its Board of Overseers and the President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as the Harvard Corporation), which in turn appoints the President of Harvard University.[65] There are 16,000 staff and faculty,[66] including 2,400 professors, lecturers, and instructors.[67]

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the largest Harvard faculty and has primary responsibility for instruction in Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Division of Continuing Education, which includes Harvard Summer School and Harvard Extension School. There are nine other graduate and professional faculties as well as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Joint programs with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology include the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, the Broad Institute, The Observatory of Economic Complexity, and edX.

Endowment

See main article: Harvard University endowment.

Harvard has the largest university endowment in the world, valued at about $50.7 billion as of 2023.[3] [4] During the recession of 2007–2009, it suffered significant losses that forced large budget cuts, in particular temporarily halting construction on the Allston Science Complex.[68] The endowment has since recovered.[69] [70] [71] [72]

About $2 billion of investment income is annually distributed to fund operations.[73] Harvard's ability to fund its degree and financial aid programs depends on the performance of its endowment; a poor performance in fiscal year 2016 forced a 4.4% cut in the number of graduate students funded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.[74] Endowment income is critical, as only 22% of revenue is from students' tuition, fees, room, and board.[75]

Divestment

Since the 1970s, several student-led campaigns have advocated divesting Harvard's endowment from controversial holdings, including investments in apartheid South Africa, Sudan during the Darfur genocide, and the tobacco, fossil fuel, and private prison industries.[76] [77]

In the late 1980s, during the divestment from South Africa movement, student activists erected a symbolic "shantytown" on Harvard Yard and blockaded a speech by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown.[78] [79] The university eventually reduced its South African holdings by $230 million (out of $400 million) in response to the pressure.[80]

Academics

Teaching and learning

Harvard is a large, highly residential research university[81] offering 50 undergraduate majors,[82] 134 graduate degrees,[83] and 32 professional degrees.During the 2018–2019 academic year, Harvard granted 1,665 baccalaureate degrees, 1,013 graduate degrees, and 5,695 professional degrees.[84]

Harvard College, the four-year, full-time undergraduate program, has a liberal arts and sciences focus.[82] To graduate in the usual four years, undergraduates normally take four courses per semester.[85] In most majors, an honors degree requires advanced coursework and a senior thesis.[86] Though some introductory courses have large enrollments, the median class size is 12 students.[87]

Professional schools

SchoolFoundedEnrollment[88]
Harvard University163631,345
Medicine1782660
Divinity1816377
Law18171,990
Dental Medicine1867280
Arts and Sciences18724,824
Business19082,011
Extension19103,428
Design1914878
Education1920876
Public Health19221,412
Government19361,100
Engineering20071,750

Research

Harvard is a founding member of the Association of American Universities[89] and a preeminent research university with "very high" research activity (R1) and comprehensive doctoral programs across the arts, sciences, engineering, and medicine according to the Carnegie Classification.

With the medical school consistently ranking first among medical schools for research,[90] biomedical research is an area of particular strength for the university. More than 11,000 faculty and over 1,600 graduate students conduct research at the medical school as well as its 15 affiliated hospitals and research institutes.[91] The medical school and its affiliates attracted $1.65 billion in competitive research grants from the National Institutes of Health in 2019, more than twice as much as any other university.[92]

Libraries and museums

The Harvard Library system is centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard and comprises nearly 80 individual libraries holding about 20.4 million items.[93] [94] [95] According to the American Library Association, it is the 4th largest library by volumes held in the United States.[96] [7]

Houghton Library, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and the Harvard University Archives consist principally of rare and unique materials. America's oldest collection of maps, gazetteers, and atlases is stored in Pusey Library and open to the public. The largest collection of East-Asian language material outside of East Asia is held in the Harvard-Yenching Library.

The Harvard Art Museums comprise three museums. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum covers Asian, Mediterranean, and Islamic art, the Busch–Reisinger Museum (formerly the Germanic Museum) covers central and northern European art, and the Fogg Museum covers Western art from the Middle Ages to the present emphasizing Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and 19th-century French art. The Harvard Museums of Science and Culture are made up of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which itself includes the Harvard Mineralogical and Geological Museum, the Harvard University Herbaria featuring the Blaschka Glass Flowers exhibit, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology; the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, found in the Harvard Science Center; the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East featuring artifacts from excavations in the Middle East; and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in the cultural history and civilizations of the Western Hemisphere. Other museums include the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Le Corbusier and housing the film archive; the Warren Anatomical Museum, found at Harvard Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine; and the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

Reputation and rankings

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Harvard University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. The university has held the first place on the Academic Ranking of World Universities since its release in 2003. It held the top spot in the Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings from 2004 to 2009, every year that the ranking was published. Since then, Harvard has held first place on the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings every year since its release in 2011.[97]

Harvard was also ranked in the first tier of American research universities, along with Columbia, MIT, and Stanford, in the 2023 report from the Center for Measuring University Performance.[98]

Among rankings of specific indicators, Harvard topped both the University Ranking by Academic Performance (2019–2020) and (2011), which measured universities' numbers of alumni holding CEO positions in Fortune Global 500 companies.[99] According to annual polls done by The Princeton Review, Harvard is consistently among the top two most commonly named dream colleges in the United States, both for students and parents[100] [101] [102] —even in 2024, after elite universities faced decline in their public perception following the 2023 Congressional hearing on antisemitism that led to the resignations of Harvard and Penn presidents.[103] Additionally, having made significant investments in its engineering school in recent years, Harvard was ranked third worldwide for Engineering and Technology in 2019 by Times Higher Education.[104]

In international relations, Foreign Policy magazine ranks Harvard best in the world at the undergraduate level and second in the world at the graduate level, behind the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.[105]

Student life

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[106] Total
White
Asian
Hispanic
Foreign national
Black
Other[107]
Economic diversity
Low-income[108]
Affluent[109]

Student government

The Undergraduate Council represented College students, until it was dissolved in 2022,[110] and replaced by the Undergraduate Association. The Graduate Council represents students at all twelve graduate and professional schools, most of which also have their own student government.[111]

Athletics

See main article: Harvard Crimson.

Both the undergraduate College and the graduate schools have intramural sports programs.

Harvard College competes in the NCAA Division I Ivy League conference. The school fields 42 intercollegiate sports teams, more than any other college in the country.[112] Every two years, the Harvard and Yale track and field teams come together to compete against a combined Oxford and Cambridge team in the oldest continuous international amateur competition in the world.[113] As with other Ivy League universities, Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships.[114] The school color is crimson.[115]

Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax each fall in the annual football meeting, which dates back to 1875.[116]

Harvard University Gazette

The Harvard Gazette, also called the Harvard University Gazette, is the official press organ of Harvard University. Formerly a print publication, it is now a web site. It publicizes research, faculty, teaching and events at the university. Initiated in 1906, it was originally a weekly calendar of news and events. In 1968 it became a weekly newspaper.

When the Gazette was a print publication, it was considered a good way of keeping up with Harvard news: "If weekly reading suits you best, the most comprehensive and authoritative medium is the Harvard University Gazette."

In 2010, the Gazette "shifted from a print-first to a digital-first and mobile-first" publication, and reduced its publication calendar to biweekly, while keeping the same number of reporters, including some who had previously worked for the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, and the Associated Press.

Notable people

Alumni

See main article: List of Harvard University people, List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni and List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Harvard University. Over more than three and a half centuries, Harvard alumni have contributed creatively and significantly to society, the arts and sciences, business, and national and international affairs.

Harvard's affiliates include eight U.S. presidents, 188 living billionaires, 162 Nobel laureates (official count 48 active faculty at the time of the award), 7 Fields Medal winners, 9 Turing Award laureates, 369 Rhodes Scholars, and 252 Marshall Scholars.[117] [118] [119] [120] Harvard students and alumni have won 10 Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 108 Olympic medals (including 46 gold medals), and they have founded many notable companies worldwide.[121] [122]

Faculty

Literature and popular culture

The perception of Harvard as a center of either elite achievement, or elitist privilege, has made it a frequent literary and cinematic backdrop. "In the grammar of film, Harvard has come to mean both tradition, and a certain amount of stuffiness," film critic Paul Sherman has said.[123]

Literature

Film

Harvard permits filming on its property only rarely, so most scenes set at Harvard (especially indoor shots, but excepting aerial footage and shots of public areas such as Harvard Square) are in fact shot elsewhere.[127] [128]

See also

Notes

  1. Book: Samuel Eliot Morison. The Founding of Harvard College. 1968. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-31450-4. 329. October 17, 2020. April 14, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210414154250/https://books.google.com/books?id=zkQWZaZqZfUC&pg=PA329. live.
  2. An appropriation of £400 toward a "school or college" was voted on October 28, 1636 (OS), at a meeting which convened on September 8 and was adjourned to October 28. Some sources consider October 28, 1636 (OS) (November 7, 1636, NS) to be the date of founding. Harvard's 1936 tercentenary celebration treated September 18 as the founding date, though its 1836 bicentennial was celebrated on September 8, 1836. Sources: meeting dates, Book: Quincy, Josiah . [{{google books|plainurl=yes|id=KynqxH_4lGUC|page=586 }} The History of Harvard University ]. 1860 . Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Company . en. 978-0-405-10016-1. 586. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906024126/https://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC11636583&id=KynqxH_4lGUC&pg=RA1-PA586&lpg=RA1-PA586 . September 6, 2015 ., "At a Court holden September 8th, 1636 and continued by adjournment to the 28th of the 8th month (October, 1636)... the Court agreed to give £400 towards a School or College, whereof £200 to be paid next year...." Tercentenary dates: News: Cambridge Birthday. September 28, 1936. September 8, 2006. Time. https://archive.today/20121205054221/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0%2C8816%2C756722%2C00.html. December 5, 2012. : "Harvard claims birth on the day the Massachusetts Great and General Court convened to authorize its founding. This was Sept. 8, 1637 under the Julian calendar. Allowing for the ten-day advance of the Gregorian calendar, Tercentenary officials arrived at Sept. 18 as the date for the third and last big Day of the celebration;" "on Oct. 28, 1636 ... £400 for that 'school or college' [was voted by] the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony." Bicentennial date: Web site: Harvard Gazette: This Month in Harvard History. Harvard University. September 2, 2003. September 15, 2006. Marvin Hightower. https://web.archive.org/web/20060908144409/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/10.02/02-history.html. September 8, 2006., "Sept. 8, 1836 – Some 1,100 to 1,300 alumni flock to Harvard's Bicentennial, at which a professional choir premieres "Fair Harvard." ... guest speaker Josiah Quincy Jr., Class of 1821, makes a motion, unanimously adopted, 'that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on September 8, 1936.'" Tercentary opening of Quincy's sealed package: The New York Times, September 9, 1936, p. 24, "Package Sealed in 1836 Opened at Harvard. It Held Letters Written at Bicentenary": "September 8th, 1936: As the first formal function in the celebration of Harvard's tercentenary, the Harvard Alumni Association witnessed the opening by President Conant of the 'mysterious' package sealed by President Josiah Quincy at the Harvard bicentennial in 1836."
  3. Web site: Harvard posts investment gain in fiscal 2023, endowment stands at $50.7 billion. Reuters.com. October 20, 2023. October 20, 2023. October 20, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231020010333/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harvard-posts-investment-gain-fiscal-2023-endowment-stands-507-billion-2023-10-20/. live.
  4. Financial Report Fiscal Year 2023. Harvard University. 7. October 19, 2023. October 23, 2023. October 23, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231023205617/https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy23_harvard_financial_report.pdf. live.
  5. Web site: Haidar . Emma H. . Kettles . Cam E. . March 1, 2024 . Harvard Law School Dean John Manning '82 Named Interim Provost by Garber . 2024-03-02 . The Harvard Crimson.
  6. Web site: Common Data Set 2022–2023 . Office of Institutional Research . Harvard University . September 7, 2023 . July 20, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230720173229/https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.harvard.edu/dist/6/210/files/2023/06/harvard_cds_2022-2023.pdf .
  7. Web site: Harvard University Graphic Identity Standards Manual . July 14, 2017 . June 25, 2022 . July 19, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220719035117/https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/guidelines/files/2017_14_07_harvard_graphic_identity_standards_manual.pdf . live .
  8. Web site: IPEDS – Harvard University. October 28, 2022. October 28, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221028192553/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Harvard&s=all&id=166027. live.
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    1. Book: Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University. registration. Keller. Morton. Keller. Phyllis. Oxford University Press. 0-19-514457-0. Harvard's professional schools... won world prestige of a sort rarely seen among social institutions. [...] Harvard's age, wealth, quality, and prestige may well shield it from any conceivable vicissitudes.. 2001. 463–481.
    2. Book: Spaulding, Christina. How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire. ... [Harvard's] tremendous institutional power and prestige [...] Within the nation's (arguably) most prestigious institution of higher learning .... Sexual Shakedown. 326–336. 1989. South End Press. 0-89608-284-9. John. Trumpbour. https://archive.org/details/howharvardrulesr00trum/page/326.
    3. Web site: Harvard, MIT Ranked Most Prestigious Universities, Study Reports. David Altaner. Bloomberg. March 9, 2011. March 1, 2012. March 14, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110314002025/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-10/harvard-mit-ranked-most-prestigious-universities-study-reports.html. live.
    4. Book: Collier's Encyclopedia. Macmillan Educational Co. . 1986. Harvard University, one of the world's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, was founded in Massachusetts in 1636..
    5. Web site: Newport. Frank. Harvard Number One University in Eyes of Public Stanford and Yale in second place. August 26, 2003. Gallup. October 9, 2013. September 25, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130925172644/http://www.gallup.com/poll/9109/harvard-number-one-university-eyes-public.aspx. live.
    6. News: Leonhardt . David . Ending Early Admissions: Guess Who Wins? . September 17, 2006 . The New York Times . March 27, 2020 . en-US . 0362-4331 . The most prestigious college in the world, of course, is Harvard, and the gap between it and every other university is often underestimated. . March 27, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200327234643/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html . live .
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