Презентация "Harvard University" (11 класс)

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  Harvard University
  

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  Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts whose history, influence and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world
  

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  Harvard was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne"
  The college was never affiliated with any particular denomination, but many of its earliest graduates went on to become clergymen in Congregational and Unitarian churches throughout New England.
  
  

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  Governing bodies
  
  
  Harvard leadership engaged two administrative organization: University President and Fellows of Harvard and the Board of Supervisors. University President - the most responsible person having control over the learning process
  

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  Academics
  
  Harvard is a large, highly residential research university.[The university has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges since 1929. The university offers 46 undergraduate concentrations,134 graduate degrees,and 32 professional degrees.For the 2008–2009 academic year, Harvard granted 1,664 baccalaureate degrees, 400 masters degrees, 512 doctoral degrees, and 4,460 professional degrees
  

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  Libraries and museums
  
  
  The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library
  The Harvard University Library System is centered in Widener Library in Harvard Yard and comprises over 80 individual libraries holding some 15 million volumes.According to the American Library Association, this makes it the largest academic library in the United States, and one of the largest in the world
  

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  Athletics
  
  The Harvard Crimson competes in 42 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Ivy League. Harvard has an intense athletic rivalry with Yale University culminating in The Game, although the Harvard–Yale Regatta predates the football game. This rivalry, though, is put aside every two years when the Harvard and Yale Track and Field teams come together to compete against a combined Oxford University and Cambridge University team, a competition that is the oldest continuous international amateur competition in the world.
  

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  Faculties:
  
    Faculty of Arts and Sciences with the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, include:
          Harvard College for students receiving a bachelor's degree ( 1636 )
          Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1872)
          Branch long education, including:
              Harvard Summer School (1871)
              Extended school education (1910)
      Harvard Medical School ( 1782 )
      Harvard School of Dentistry ( 1867)
      Harvard Institute of Theology ( 1816 )
      Harvard Law School [en] ( 1817 )
      Harvard Business School (1908)
      Graduate School of Design ( 1914)
      Harvard Graduate School of Education ( 1920)
      Institute of Public Health (1922)
      Harvard Institute of Government . John F. Kennedy (1936)
  

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  Harvard's faculty includes scholars such as biologist E. O. Wilson, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, physicists Lisa Randall and Roy Glauber, chemists Elias Corey, Dudley R. Herschbach and George M. Whitesides, computer scientists Michael O. Rabin and Leslie Valiant, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt, writer Louis Menand, critic Helen Vendler, historians Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Niall Ferguson, economists Amartya Sen, N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert Barro, Stephen A. Marglin, Don M. Wilson III and Martin Feldstein, political philosophers Harvey Mansfield, Baroness Shirley Williams and Michael Sandel, political scientists Robert Putnam, Joseph Nye, and Stanley Hoffmann, scholar/composers Robert Levin and Bernard Rands, astrophysicist Alyssa A. Goodman, and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz.
  

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