HARVARD UNIVERSITY Harvard University is the oldest and most famous university in North America. Founded in 1636, Harvard is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston. Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many areas who make a difference globally. Classes began in the summer of 1638 with one master in a single frame house and a “college yard.” Harvard was named for a Puritan minister, John Harvard, who left the college his books and half of his estate. There are about 18,000 undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard and over 2,000 faculty members. John F. Kennedy and several other United States presidents were Harvard University graduates, and more than thirty members of its faculty have been Nobel Prize winners. The Harvard University Library is the largest academic library in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. 29. Harvard University has _________ * different quality of teaching and learning. low quality of teaching and learning. high quality of teaching and learning. high quality of teaching and volunteering. 30. Harvard University was established in _____. * 1637 1639 1636 1638 31. John F. Kennedy was once _______ at Harvard University. * a principal a trainer a teacher a student 32. Harvard University is _______ * a private university in the UK. a private university in the US a public university in the US. a public university in the UK