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Harvard University (Harvard University), or simply Harvard, is an American private university located in Cambridge Massachusetts. Founded October 28, 1636, it is the oldest higher education of the United States

It is part of the Ivy League, non-official association of eight universities among the oldest and the most famous in the United States. Forty-five Nobel Prize came out of its ranks (2010). Harvard is also the richest University in the world. The Faculty is made up of 2 497 teachers, for 6 715 undergraduate students (undergraduate, in English) and 12 424 graduate students (graduate in English). Harvard attracts students from all over the world (132 nationalities represented in 2004).
Harvard in colonial times

Harvard in the eighteenth century
True college, as we know it today, was founded in 1636 by a vote of the General Assembly of the colony of Massachusetts (Massachusetts Bay Colony) Bay. In 1639, hewas baptised "Harvard" John Harvard of Charlestown, a young Puritan pastor who in1638 bequeathed his library and half his estate to the young institution. At its inception, the establishment has only nine students and a Professor, Nathaniel Eaton; education is similar to that which was provided in England but is influenced by the firstsettlers of New England Puritanism. Harvard then formed many pastors. The first scholarship was founded in 1643.

During the American Revolutionary War, American soldiers are housed in Massachusetts Hall7.

The name of 'University', on the other hand, dates to 1780.

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