Introduction to Harvard University:

Harvard University, referred to as Harvard, is located in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is a top private research university, an Ivy League school, a global forum for university presidents, and a member of the advanced research alliance of global universities.

Creation period:

/kloc-at the end of 0/5, Columbus opened the Atlantic waterway from Europe to America, and Europeans crossed the ocean to America. /kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the first British immigrants arrived in North America, where they opened up their own "Garden of Eden"-New England.

Among the immigrants, there are more than 65,438+000 Puritans who received classical higher education at Oxford and Cambridge universities. In order to enable their descendants to receive such education in their new homes, they established Harvard College, the first institution in American history, on the Charles River in Massachusetts in 65,438+0636.

Construction of educational and teaching facilities:

Instructor:

By the end of 20 14, Harvard University had about 2,400 faculty members, including Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners and Fields Prize winners. The school has more than 300 academicians from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Institute of Medicine (IOM). Among them, academicians of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Medical College rank first in the United States.

School motto:

The earliest school motto is "Veritas Christoet Ecclesiae", which means "for the truth of Christ and the church" in English, meaning "to pursue the truth in the sense of Christianity and the church".

Later, with the secularization of Harvard and its separation from religion, this sentence was naturally simplified to one word-truth. This word is often translated into "truth", which means not only "truth" but also "truth" and "truth".

Teaching system:

Until the19th century, Harvard College, which was founded a century and a half ago, still took Oxford University and Cambridge University in England as the model, aimed at training priests, lawyers and officials, and paid attention to humanities, so students could not choose courses freely.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 0/9th century, the horn of higher education curriculum reform sounded in Harvard, advocating "academic freedom" and "lecture freedom". The stereotype of "fixed academic year" and "fixed curriculum" has been impacted, and the system of free elective courses has gradually emerged.

The above data are from Zhihu.