1620, more than 300 years ago, 102 Englishmen, led by Father Blest, arrived in North America from England on a Mayflower sailboat and established a colony in North America. 1930, religion split, a group of Puritans appeared, and Boston City was established. However, in the future, due to the shortage of priests. The colonial parliament built a college in Boston to train priests.
At first, it was modeled after Cambridge. This college is the predecessor of Harvard College. When he started to build. It is called New Cambridge College because it is named after john harvard, a priest who graduated from Cambridge. However, two years later, john harvard died of tuberculosis. He donated half of his legacy and a large number of books to the school, and people remembered his generosity. Just changed the name of the school to Harvard College.
At 1780. The local state government upgraded it to Harvard University, which was actually named after Reverend john harvard.
Today, Harvard University is a world-famous private research university and a member of the famous Ivy League school. Eight American presidents came out from here, and hundreds of Nobel Prize winners worked and studied here. It has a lofty academic status and extensive influence in many fields such as literature, medicine, law and commerce, and is recognized as one of the top higher education institutions in the world today.
Next to Harvard University is the best science and engineering university in the United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many famous people in China have graduated from this school. Who are those people?