Who has The summary of Harvard University

I Introduction

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Harvard University, private, coeducational institution of higher education, the oldest in the United States, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

II History and Administration

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In 1636 a college was founded in Cambridge by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was opened for instruction two years later and named in 1639 for English clergyman John Harvard, its first benefactor. The college at first lacked substantial endowments and existed on gifts from individuals and the General Court. Harvard gradually acquired considerable autonomy and private financial support, becoming a chartered university in 1780. Today it has the largest private endowment of any university in the world.

Harvard has steadily developed under the great American educators who have successively served as its presidents. During the presidency of Ch