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|website=http://www.harvard.edu/

|website=http://www.harvard.edu/

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|endowment=$53 billion (as of 2025)

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[[Image:Harvard u.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Annenberg Hall, the freshman dining facility, (copyright Harvard)]]

[[Image:Harvard u.jpg|right|thumb|240px|Annenberg Hall, the freshman dining facility, (copyright Harvard)]]

'''Harvard University''' is a private university located in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], about three miles west of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. It ranked #1 in US News's 2009 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list,<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/2155</ref> and is usually ranked either first or second in most lists of a similar nature.  In an example of [[O'Sullivan's First Law]], Harvard was founded on the biblical principle that "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, Chapter 17|John 17:3]]).<ref>https://www.allabouthistory.org/history-of-harvard.htm</ref>  But Harvard's [[Christian]] success was taken over by [[liberal]]s like everything else that is not affirmatively [[conservative]].

'''Harvard University''' is a private university located in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], about three miles west of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]. It ranked #1 in US News's 2009 "National [[University|Universities]]: Top Schools" list,<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/2155</ref> and is usually ranked either first or second in most lists of a similar nature.  In an example of [[O'Sullivan's First Law]], Harvard was founded on the biblical principle that "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, Chapter 17|John 17:3]]).<ref>https://www.allabouthistory.org/history-of-harvard.htm</ref>  But Harvard's [[Christian]] success was taken over by [[liberal]]s like everything else that is not affirmatively [[conservative]]. In 2025, Harvard sued to force the [[Trump]] Administration to reinstate its termination of billions of dollars in federal funding of Harvard.

Founded in 1636 (as "New College" at Cambridge; the school renamed itself "Harvard College" in 1639.), it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It was originally founded by [[Congregationalism|Congregationalists]] for the purpose of training ministers.

Founded in 1636 (as "New College" at Cambridge; the school renamed itself "Harvard College" in 1639.), it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It was originally founded by [[Congregationalism|Congregationalists]] for the purpose of training ministers.