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Harvard University

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the eastern coast of the United States, on the banks of the Charles River.

Harvard University, which celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1986, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Harvard College was established in 1636 and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown, a young minister who, upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the new institution. The University has grown from nine students with a single master to more than 18 000 degree candidates, including undergraduates and students in 10 principal academic units. An additional 13 000 students are enrolled in one or more courses in the Harvard Extension School.

During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists.

The 1708 election of John Leverett, the first president who was not also a clergyman, marked a turning of the College toward intellectual independence from Puritanism.

Charles W. Eliot, who served as president from 1869 to 1909, transformed the relatively small provincial institution into a modern university. During his tenure, the Law and Medical schools were revitalized, and the graduate schools of Business, Dental Medicine, and Arts and Sciences were established.

Now Harvard University consists of ten faculties, they are Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Business School, Design School, Divinity School, Education School, Kennedy School, Radcliffe School, Law School, School of Public Health, The Faculties of the Medical and Dental Schools.

Seven presidents of the United States - John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush - were graduates of Harvard. Its faculty have produced 40 Nobel laureates.

Answer the following questions:

1) Where is Harvard situated?

2) How old is it?

3) Why was it named for John Harvard?

4) How many students were there in Harvard at the beginning?

5) How many students are there today?

6) What education did Harvard offer during its first years?

7) What changed in the College after the election of John Leverett as its president in 1708?

8) Who transformed the small provincial college into a modern university?

9) What faculties does Harvard consist of?

10) What presidents were graduates of Harvard?

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