Harvard- The Oldest University in US

Harvard is not only the world-class university but only the oldest one in USA. It has many historic places and generated seven presidents of United States: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W. Bush. Its faculty have produced more than 40 Nobel laureates and famous scholars. The below is the brief history of Harvard.

Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown, a young minister who left his library and half his estate to the new institution. During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists. Charles W. Eliot, who served as president from 1869 to 1909, transformed the relatively small provincial institution into a modern university. During his tenure, the Law and Medical schools were revitalized, and the graduate schools of Business, Dental Medicine, and Arts and Sciences were established. And now the University has more than 18,000 degree candidates, including undergraduates and students in 10 principal academic units.

Harvard University contains many historic places: Massachusetts Hall - it was built in 1720, during the Revolutionary War, the John Harvard Statue, located in front of University Hall - it is believed that you will be lucky if you rub John Harvard's shoe also now his shoe is very shinging as almost tourist do it, Widener Memorial Library constructed with funds given by Eleanor Elkins Widener in memory of her son, Memorial Hall, Science Center, etc.

Anyway, it has a tour by a Harvard student to take you see around the Harvard campus. The tours leave from the Events & Information Center. Not only will you discover the location of fascinating exhibitions and programs on campus, you will also see Harvard's rich sampling of American history and architecture from the Colonial period to the present.

The information center is located in the Holyoke Center Arcade at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue. It is in the Harvard Square, Cambridge. The Center is open year-round Monday through Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and is closed only on holidays. Here is its telephone no.: at (617) 495-1573 or e-mailing icenter@camail.harvard.edu You can find out more information about Harvard University: www.harvard.edu and it has the extension school for the part-time student: www.extension.harvard.edu