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=**Originally called "The College at New Town" Est. 1636**=

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 * =Harvard at a Glance =

FACULTY About 2,400 faculty members and more than 10,400 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals

STUDENTS Harvard College – About 6,700

Graduate and professional students – About 14,500

Total – About 21,000

LIVING ALUMNI More than 323,000, over 271,000 in the U.S., nearly 52,000 in some 201 other countries.

HONORS 47 Nobel Laureates, 32 heads of state, 48 Pulitzer Prize winners

MOTTO Veritas (Latin for “truth”)

REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS 5,083 acres

LIBRARY COLLECTION <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Harvard Library—the largest academic library in the world—includes 18.9 million volumes, 174,000 serial titles, an estimated 400 million manuscript items, 10 million photographs, 56 million archived web pages, and 5.4 terabytes of born-digital archives and manuscripts. Access to this rich collection is provided by nearly 1,000 library staff members who operate more than 70 separate library units.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">FACULTIES, SCHOOLS, AND AN INSTITUTE <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Harvard University is made up of 11 principal academic units – ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The ten faculties oversee schools and divisions that offer courses and award academic degrees.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">UNDERGRADUATE COST AND FINANCIAL AID <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Families with students on scholarship pay an average of $11,500 annually toward the cost of a Harvard education. More than 65 percent of Harvard College students receive scholarship aid, and the average grant this year is $46,000. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Since 2007, Harvard’s investment in financial aid has climbed by more than 70 percent, from $96.6 million to $166 million per year. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The total 2013-2014 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $38,891 for tuition and $59,950 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">UNIVERSITY INCOME (FISCAL YEAR 2013) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">$4.2 billion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">UNIVERSITY EXPENSES (FISCAL YEAR 2013) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">$4.2 billion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">ENDOWMENT (FISCAL YEAR 2013) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">$32.7 billion

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 * =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Then and Now =

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Then: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Harvard College was founded in 1636 as a [|Puritan]/[|Congregationalist] institution and trained ministers for many years. The separate institution of the Divinity School, however, dates from 1816, when it was established as the first nondenominational divinity school in the United States. ([|Princeton Theological Seminary] had been founded as a [|Presbyterian] institution in 1812. [|Andover Theological Seminary] was founded in 1807 by orthodox [|Calvinists]who fled [|Harvard College] after it appointed liberal theologian [|Henry Ware] to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity in 1805.) Nevertheless, for most of its history Harvard Divinity School was unofficially associated with the [|Unitarian] church. However, it also retains a historical tie to one of the successor denominations of American Congregationalism, the [|United Church of Christ].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Now: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Today its students and faculty come from a variety of religious backgrounds: Christian (all denominations), Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, etc. Its academic programs attempt to balance theology and religious studies—that is, the "believer's" perspective on religion with the "secular" perspective on religion. This is in contrast to many other divinity schools where one or the other is given primacy ([|Yale Divinity School], for example, emphasizes its ministry program, while the majority of students at the [|University of Chicago Divinity School] enroll in its "religious studies" Master of Arts program).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Harvard Divinity School grants the following degrees:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">* [|Master of Theological Studies] (MTS) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Candidates for the MTS choose among 18 areas of academic focus: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">* [|African] and [|African American] Religious Studies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Candidates for the MDiv are required to take:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Master of Divinity] (MDiv)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Master of Theology] (ThM)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Doctor of Theology] (ThD)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Buddhist] Studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Comparative Religious Studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• East Asian Religious Studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Hebrew Bible] / [|Old Testament]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|History of Christianity]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Hindu Studies]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• South Asian Religious Studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Islamic] Studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Jewish] Studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|New Testament] and Early Christianity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Philosophy of Religion]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Religions of the Americas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Religion, Ethics, and Politics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Religion, Literature, and Culture
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Religious Studies and Education
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• [|Theology]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Three courses in the theories, methods, and practices of scriptural interpretation within the student's religious tradition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Six courses in the history, theology, and practice of the student's religious tradition in which they are preparing to minister
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">• Three courses within a religious tradition different from the one they are studying

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reference: [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School#Notable_alumni] || =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Statue of Three Lies =



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">[|John Harvard] statue is a mainstay of Harvard Yard. Students rub his toe on their way to class, hoping that it will give them luck on their next hard exam. As tours pass through the Yard, people stop to get a picture with one of the best-known landmarks on campus. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">But the statue is not all that it seems. It’s actually nicknamed the “statue of three lies” because of all the inaccuracies inscribed on it.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. That isn’t John Harvard.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Even though the name “John Harvard” is written in stone on the statue’s base, the likeness is not, actually, that of John Harvard. In fact, there are no living representations of John Harvard. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">In 1884, Daniel Chester French created the famous statue, and Sherman Hoar sat as a model for the head of John Harvard. Hoar later went on to serve as a member of Congress and a US district attorney.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">2. John Harvard wasn’t the founder of Harvard University.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">What? Yes, that’s right. The engraving on the statue states “founder,” but this is also not true. Actually, Harvard didn’t even attend the College. He was the first major benefactor to the University. He donated half of his estate and his library, which consisted of over 400 books. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Harvard University was officially founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">3. Harvard wasn’t founded in 1638.
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Close, but no cigar. Harvard University was founded in 1636. This gives Harvard the honor of being the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. (The oldest university in the world is Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in Khozettan, Iran, which was founded around 200 BC). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Harvard was originally called the New College. And its mission was to train clergy. Harvard received its official famous name on March 13, 1639, named for the renowned benefactor seated in “lies.”

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