The Ivy League, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard University was established in 1636. It’s the oldest higher education institute in the United States, and one of the top ranked schools in the world. There are more than 360,000 Harvard alums around the globe, some of whom include Former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt as well as actors Natalie Portman and Matt Damon. Mark Zuckerberg, who developed Facebook while at Harvard, and Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft Corporation, are notable dropouts. Forty eight Nobel Laureates, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners and 32 heads of state attended the university. In terms of sports, Harvard has 42 Division I intercollegiate sports teams, and nearly 80 percent of students are involved in athletics. Their teams have won 142 NCAA or national championships, as well as 372 Ivy League Championships. Athletes have also participated in every modern Olympic Games. The school color is crimson, and the motto is “Veritas,” which means “truth.” The campus sits on 5,457 acres and includes the Harvard Library, the most extensive academic library in the world, as well as the Harvard museums, which contain more than 28 million items.
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area. Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , two of the world's most prestigious universities, are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College, one of the leading colleges for women in the United States until it merged with Harvard on October 1, 1999. According to the 2010 Census, the city's population was 105,162. More from Wikipedia...
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