Harvard University was founded in 1636, formerly known as Cambridge College. John, an English priest born in London? John harvard (graduated from Cambridge University, England) came from England to work in 1637 Xinjian College, and was positively praised for his work. He donated all his books and half his assets to this university, which was later renamed Harvard University. /kloc-in the summer of 0/638, there was only one teacher, one cabin and one? School playground? .
Harvard was originally sponsored by the church, but in the first 200 years, it gradually got rid of religious and political control. From 65438 to 0865, alumni of the school began to elect the school management Committee. /kloc-at the beginning of the 0/9th century, theological seminaries, law schools and medical schools were established one after another. /kloc-In the mid-9th century, Lawrence School of Science of Harvard University contributed to the development of applied science in the United States.
During Eliot's tenure as president of Harvard (1869 to 1909), he made Harvard a school with national influence. He adopts elective system instead of rigid classical courses, and students can study their own interests. Today's Harvard University is a multi-disciplinary comprehensive university.
June 65438+1October 65438+February 2007, drew? Gilpin? Foster became the 28th president of Harvard University. She is the first female principal appointed in the history of the school.
Harvard University has 17 disciplines, which belong to two undergraduate colleges (Harvard College and Radcliffe College) and 10 graduate colleges: College of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Education, School of Design, School of Public Health, School of Administration, School of Law, School of Dentistry, Seminary and Business School. There are 95 libraries, 7 botanical research institutes, 2 observatories, more than 50 scientific, engineering and medical laboratories, and 9 museums of natural history, medicine, art and archaeology directly related to them. Harvard University also has many famous research centers, such as international affairs research center, education policy research center, environmental design research center and computer research center. Yanjing Society, the Oriental Studies Center, is an institution specializing in China, which has long been supported by Fei Zhengqing, a famous American expert on China.
Harvard University Graduate School accepts male and female students. College students have boys' schools and girls' contacts. Harvard College only admits boys. Radcliffe College, founded in 1879, is exclusively for girls. College students must live on campus when they enter the first grade. Sophomore students live off campus 13 independent residential area. Since its establishment, Harvard has trained many politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, writers and scholars for the United States. Including more than 30 Nobel Prize winners, 29 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 6 presidents: the second president, John? Adams, the sixth president, John? Quincy. Adams, the 19 th President Rutherford? Hayes, the 26th President Theodore? Roosevelt and the 35th President John? Kennedy, and a group of judges, cabinet officials and congressional leaders.
Harvard covers an area of 380 acres, with a memorial church built in the 1930s in the middle, surrounded by different styles of buildings such as student dormitories, libraries and classrooms. Among them, holden Chapel, Massachusetts Hall (the earliest existing Harvard building, built in 1720), Harvard Hall, and Vidner Library are all famous ancient buildings, with the solemn and elegant beauty of Old World architecture. Of course, there are also many new modern school buildings on campus. The school is full of green lawns, elms that cover the sky, and buildings made of red bricks and covered with ivy make people feel kind and quiet. Walking on campus, people will notice that there is a tall stone tablet on the back of a turtle, which was presented by Harvard Alumni Association in China during the 300th anniversary of Harvard. 1936. Since the late Qing Dynasty, many China students have studied here, among which Wang An and I.M. Pei are the best.
Harvard has nine museums, which serve teaching and are open to the public. The most worth visiting is the Botanical Museum. Here, Swiss gentian with Mexican cactus, Egyptian blue water lily set off North Korea Jindalai and China plum peony. There are about 800 kinds of famous flowers and exotic flowers and grasses, which are brightly colored and never fade. They were originally glass models of plants, commonly known as? Glass flower? Made by two German masters, it is a masterpiece in the world and people are famous for it? An artistic miracle in science, a scientific miracle in art? .
Many Harvard graduates are students from China: Hu Fugang (physicist, pioneer of modern science education in China, one of the first batch of Harvard students, 19 18 returned to China, a pioneer of physics in China) and Ruiheng Liu (one of the first batch of Harvard students, 19 19), who received a doctorate in medicine from Harvard University. Former President of Union Medical College Hospital and Minister of Health of Nanjing National Government) and Zhu Kezhen (scientific educator, founder of modern geography and meteorology in China, 19 13) entered Harvard University to study meteorology. 1965438+returned to China in 2008. After the founding of New China, he served as vice president of China Academy of Sciences, chairman of China Meteorological Society and chairman of China Geographical Society. In addition, there are linguists Zhao Yuanren and Lin Yutang, famous writer and translator Liang Qiu, architect Liang Sicheng, archaeologist Liang Siyong, famous mathematician Jiang Zehan, space technology expert Yang Jiaping, mathematician Jiang Lifu, playwright Hong Shen, political scientist Qian Duansheng, geologist Zhang Bingxi, electronic expert Wang An and architect I.M. Pei.