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1、美国大学,泰晤士报发布2008年全球顶尖大学排名榜前10名,1 HARVARD University哈佛大学 United States2 YALE University耶鲁大学 United States3 University of CAMBRIDGE剑桥大学 United Kingdom4 University of OXFORD牛津大学 United Kingdom5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology加州理工学院 United States 6 IMPERIAL College London伦敦大学帝国理工学院 United Kingdom7 UCL
2、(University College London)伦敦大学学院 United Kingdom8 University of CHICAGO芝加哥大学 United States9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology麻省理工学院 United States10 COLUMBIA University哥伦比亚大学 United States,美国哈佛大学Harvard University,哈 佛 一 角,哈 佛 全 景,哈佛的冬天,History of Harvard University Harvard University,which celebr
3、ated its 350th anniversary in 1986,is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.Founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth,the University has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates,including underg
4、raduates and students in 10 principal academic units.An additional 13,000 students are enrolled in one or more courses in the Harvard Extension School.Over 14,000 people work at Harvard,including more than 2,000 faculty.There are also 7,000 faculty appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals.Seven
5、 presidents of the United States John Adams,John Quincy Adams,Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt,Rutherford B.Hayes,John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George W.Bush were graduates of Harvard.Its faculty have produced more than 40 Nobel laureates.,Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the G
6、reat and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was named for its first benefactor,John Harvard of Charlestown,a young minister who,upon his death in 1638,left his library and half his estate to the new institution.Harvards first scholarship fund was created in 1643 with a gift from Ann R
7、adcliffe,Lady Mowlson.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.Although many of its early graduates became ministers in Puritan congregations throughout New
8、England,the College was never formally affiliated with a specific religious denomination.An early brochure,published in,1643,justified the Colleges existence:To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity;dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches.,NamingThe name Harvard comes from
9、 the colleges first benefactor,the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown.Upon his death in 1638,he left half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.,FacultyAbout 1,900 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic
10、 appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals,StudentsHarvard College 6,700 Graduate and professional students 12,300 Total 20,000,MottoVeritas(Latin for“truth”),Harvards principal academic units are:Faculty of Arts and Sciences includes:Harvard CollegeGraduate School of Arts and SciencesDivision o
11、f Continuing EducationBusiness SchoolDesign SchoolDivinity SchoolGraduate School of EducationJohn F.Kennedy School of Government 7)Law School8)Faculty of Medicine includes:Medical SchoolSchool of Dental Medicine 9)School of Public Health10)Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,Harvard University PresidentDrew Gilpin Faust,Harvard seal,