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'''Harvard University''' is a private university located in [[Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. 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.
'''Harvard University''' is a private university located in [[Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. 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.
Founded in 1636 (as Harvard College), it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It was originally founded by [[Congregationalism|Congregationalists]] for the purpose of training [[minister]]s.
Founded in 1636 (as '''Harvard College'''), 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.
Harvard is one of the eight schools in the [[Ivy League]]. Harvard accepts applications from [[homeschooling|homeschooled]] children.<ref>Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 12</ref>
Harvard is one of the eight schools in the [[Ivy League]]. Harvard accepts applications from [[homeschooling|homeschooled]] children.<ref>Christian Examiner, Sept. 2007, Vol 25, No 9, Pg. 12</ref>
The Harvard University libraries contain more than 16 million volumes and is the largest and most important academic library in the world. It began in the 1638 bequest of 400 books from John Harvard. The core of the University's collections is found in Widener Library, but there are 70 libraries in all. It is renowned for special collections of incunabula, law, anthropology, East Asian studies, Slavic studies, Hebraica and Judaica, American history and literature, British and European history and literature, literary manuscripts, and fine arts.
The Harvard University Press is a leading academic publisher of scholarly monographs, and has published more than 4,000 titles, including the Loeb Classical Library.
==History and Mission==
==History and Mission==
With some 17,000 Puritans migrating to New England by 1620, Harvard was founded by Puritan Calvinists who realized the need for training clergy for the new Bible commonwealth, a "church in the wilderness." It was named for a ministger who died young.
With some 17,000 [[Puritans]] migrating to New England by 1620, Harvard was founded by ministers who realized the need for training clergy for the new commonwealth, a "church in the wilderness." it was named for John Harvard, its first benefactor. It received its corporate charter in 1650 and became a university in 1780.
[[File:Col-mass.jpg|thumb|300px|Harvard College was founded in 1638 making Boston the intellectual center of New England]]
[[File:Col-mass.jpg|thumb|300px|Harvard College was founded in 1636 making Boston the intellectual center of New England]]