Harvard

Harvard (HAR-vərd)

Harvard (pronounced HAR-vərd) is a private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is one of the most prestigious and oldest institutions of higher learning in the world.

Etymology

The university is named after its first benefactor, John Harvard, a young minister who left his library and half his estate to the institution when he died in 1638.

Related Terms

• Ivy League: A collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States. The term Ivy League is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group of elite colleges beyond the sports context.
• Research University: A university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They can be public or private, and often have well-respected faculty and many resources.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts: A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It is the home of two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• John Harvard: An English minister in America, "a godly gentleman and a lover of learning", whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to got by the name of the New Colledge be now called Harvard Colledge."

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Harvard
• Wikipedia's article - Harvard

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