Harvard University
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| Harvard University | |
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| Type: | Private |
| City: | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Sports: | baseball, basketball, heavyweight crew, lightweight crew, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, sailing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, wrestling[1] |
| Colors: | Crimson |
| Mascot: | Crimson Tide |
| Website: | http://www.harvard.edu/ |
Harvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It ranked #2 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[2]
Founded in 1636 (as Harvard College), it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It was originally founded by Congregationalists for the purpose of training ministers.
Harvard is one of the eight schools in the Ivy League and one of four to accept applications from homeschooled children.[3]
Rev. John Harvard was the son of a butcher whose family died when a plague swept England, leaving him an estate. Educated in England, Rev. John Harvard was ordained, married and sailed for Massachusetts where he pastored the First Church of Charlestown. He then tragically died of tuberculosis at the mere age of 31. The College at Cambridge was then renamed in his honor him.
The school was highly religious in the 1600s. Among its graduates in that century, 50% were ministers. Prior to the Revolution, ten out of twelve of Harvard's presidents were also ministers. In the words of Harvard's founders:
- "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we ... rear'd convenient places for God's worship ... dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust ... it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard, a godly gentleman and a lover of learning ... to give the one half of his estate ... towards the erecting of a college and all his Library."
Harvard's Rules & Precepts (Sept. 26, 1642) declared:
- "Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life. John 17:3."
Of the 108 first schools founded in America, 106 were founded on Christianity, [4]
Today, Harvard retains little of its Christian foundation, and has become a bastion of liberal politics. Harvard has also been criticized in recent years for grade inflation.[5]
On October 18, a outbreak of scabies struck in a Harvard dormitory; it attracted little media attention and the causes were not investigated.[6]
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- ↑ http://www.gocrimson.com/
- ↑ http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php
- ↑ Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 12
- ↑ http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-09-14&view=View
- ↑ http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2002-02-05-grade-inflation.htm
- ↑ [1]
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